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Stefan Jędrychowski

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Stefan Jędrychowski
Minister of Finance of Poland
In office
22 December 1971 – 21 November 1974
Preceded byJózef Trendota
Succeeded byHenryk Kisiel
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
22 December 1968 – 22 December 1971
Preceded byAdam Rapacki
Succeeded byStefan Olszowski
Deputy Prime Minister
In office
12 December 1951 – 24 October 1956
Preceded byHilary Chełchowski
Succeeded byTadeusz Gede
Personal details
Born(1910-05-19)19 May 1910
Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died26 May 1996(1996-05-26) (aged 86)
Warsaw, Poland
Political party
Alma materStefan Batory University
ProfessionPolitician, economist, journalist

Stefan Jędrychowski (19 May 1910 – 26 May 1996) was a Polish communist politician, economist, and journalist, who served as deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, and minister of finance.

Early life and education

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Jędrychowski was born on 19 May 1910 in Warsaw to a middle-class Catholic family.[1][2] His mother was of German origin. His family owned properties and apartment houses in Wilno, in the Russian part of Poland.[3][4]

Jędrychowski graduated from Stefan Batory University in Wilno in 1932 with degrees in law and social science.[3] He went on to earn his master's degree in law and PhD in economics from the same university.[4][5] He began his political career as a radical leftist in a group called the Renaissance (Polish: Odrodzenie) as an undergraduate student. He went on to join the Legion of Youth (Polish: Legion Mlodych), which was founded by Józef Piłsudski after he took over the Polish government in 1926.[3] Jędrychowski became a member of the group's regional command.[3]

Career and activities

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Jędrychowski began his career as an assistant lecturer in economics at Stefan Batory University.[4] In 1936, he joined the Communist Party.[4] In September 1939, he began to work as a journalist in Wilno.[4][6] Then he was named deputy editor of the local communist daily which had been published by the Soviet authorities.[4] He became a Soviet citizen and a member of the Soviet Communist Party.[4] Following the annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union he served at the Supreme Soviet of the Supreme Soviet as a deputy.[4]

Later Jędrychowski continued his activities in the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), which was formed on 22 July 1944.[7] Shortly after he began to serve as the PKWN's representative in Moscow.[7] He was also the Warsaw government's delegate in France in 1945.[5] In addition, he headed the department of information and propaganda under the PKWN.[8] From 1945 to 1947 he served as minister of navigation and foreign trade in the national unity government.[4] Next he joined the Polish United Workers' Party.[9] And he became an alternate member of the party's central committee or politburo.[10]

Jędrychowski served as the vice president or deputy prime minister at the Polish cabinet, also known as Rada Ministrów, from 12 December 1951 to 24 October 1956.[11] He worked as the head of the planning office, Komisja Planowania, from 1956 to 1971.[12][13] He was also promoted to the full membership of the party's central committee on 21 October 1956, being one of nine members.[10][14] At the committee he assumed the post of chief economic advisor.[15] He served as the minister of foreign affairs from 22 December 1968 to 22 December 1971.[16] In December 1971, his membership at the central committee of the party ended.[13][17] Next he was named minister of finance on 22 December 1971, and his term ended on 21 November 1974.[11][18]

Death

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Jędrychowski died in Warsaw on 26 May 1996.[16][19]

Awards and decorations

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References

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  1. ^ Radio Free Europe Research: East Europe. Situation report. Poland. Radio Free Europe. 1971.
  2. ^ "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ a b c d "The Communist Leadership in Eastern Europe". Blinken Open Society Archives. 14 May 1959. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Oscar Halecki (1957). Poland. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. ASIN B000GDGYSI.
  5. ^ a b "Solidarity Between Jews and Poles Stressed by Warsaw Govt. Envoy at Paris Meeting". JTA Archive. 18 February 1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  6. ^ "People in the Polish committee of liberation". Catholic Herald. 4 August 1944. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  7. ^ a b Jacek Tebinka. "Policy of The Soviet Union towards The Warsaw Uprising 1 August – 2 October 1944". London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association.
  8. ^ "Soviet Puppet Government in Poland". Polish Information Center 1939-1945. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  9. ^ Anne Applebaum (22 November 2012). "How the Communists Inexorably Changed Life". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  10. ^ a b Tadeusz N. Cieplak (1972). Poland Since 1956. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. p. 9. GGKEY:05P4FRN9EUP.
  11. ^ a b "Overview of the Stefan Jędrychowski papers". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  12. ^ Samuel L. Sharp (1953). Poland White Eagle on a Red Field. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  13. ^ a b "Jan Svoboda's Notes on the CPSU CC Presidium Meeting with Satellite Leaders, 24 October 1956" (PDF). George Washington University. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  14. ^ L. W. Gluchowski (Spring 1995). "Poland, 1956" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin (5).
  15. ^ Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum (1997). "The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland, June - December 1967". Intermarium. 1 (3).
  16. ^ a b "Polish Ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Polish Communists Get Younger Men". The Sun. Warsaw. Reuters. 14 December 1971. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  18. ^ "Ministrowie finansów - Ministerstwo Finansów - Portal Gov.pl".
  19. ^ "Jędrychowski Stefan". Blisko Polski (in Polish).
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