Zygmunt Modzelewski

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Zygmunt Modzelewski (born April 15, 1900 in Częstochowa , Poland , † June 18, 1954 in Warsaw ) was a Polish politician and economist.

Modzelewski came from a working-class family and studied at the university and the school of political science in Paris ; In 1928 he received his doctorate in economics (1951 also in philosophy ). In 1951 he became a full professor and in 1952 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN ).

Since 1917 Modzelewski was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (Polish: Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy ), since 1918 of the Communist Party of the Republic of Poland (later KPP, Communist Party of Poland , Komunistyczna Partia Polski ). 1923–1927 he stayed in France (he left with a false passport, made out in the name of Fiszer), belonged to the French Communist Party (PCF), from 1924 to 1925 even as a member of the Central Committee. From 1937 to 1945 he lived in the USSR , where he was a member of the Union of Polish Patriots , sat in the Central Office of the Polish Communists and in 1944 became the first director of the Polpress Agency . From 1944 he was a member of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and its Central Committee from 1945 to 1948.

In 1945 Modzelewski became Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the USSR, 1945–1947 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , 1947–1951 Foreign Minister. From 1951 he was an employee (and rector) of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR, German: PVAP ). He was also a member of the party and its central committee. From 1952 to 1954 he was a member of the Rada Państwa , the State Council . Zygmunt Modzelewski died in 1954.

Modzelewski's grave

Modzelewski was a member of the Krajowa Rada Narodowa KRN, a parliamentary assembly in the initial years of the Second World War in Poland, the provisional Sejm after the war from 1945, and the Sejm of the first legislative period, which resulted from the faked Sejm election in Poland in 1947 . In 1954 he received the Order for the Development of People's Poland .

Zygmunt Modzelewski was the adoptive father of Karol Modzelewski , the namesake of the Solidarność union .

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SURNAME Modzelewski, Zygmunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm, economist and foreign minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Częstochowa , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1954
Place of death Warsaw