Stanisław Kania

Stanisław Kania ( born March 8, 1927 in Wrocanka at Jasło ) is a Polish politician.

During the Second World War, he was a working man and fought in the peasant battalions ( Bataliony Chłopskie ). In 1945 he joined the Polish Workers Party ( PPR), which merged in 1948 in the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR ). From then on, Kania made ​​a slow but steady career in the party. From 1968 to 1971 he directed the Administrative Department of the Central Committee, 1971 to 1981, he was Central Committee Secretary from 1975 to 1981 member of the Politburo. September 6, 1980 to October 18, 1981, he was First Secretary Edward Gierek as the successor of the PZPR. Kania was a typical compromise candidate and moderate apparatchik. The deterioration of the political course he was then replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, but still belonged from 1982 to 1985 the State Council and remained until 1989 deputy in the Sejm.

In 1991, he published his memoirs Zatrzymać konfrontację ( Confrontation stop ).

In 2012, he was acquitted by the District Court in Warsaw of the charge of constitutional violation in the imposition of the war right 1981. Against the acquittal laid the prosecutors of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN ) an appeal; but confirmed the Warsaw Court of Appeal in the following year the judgment of the first instance.

Footnotes

Bolesław Bierut | Edward Ochab | Wladyslaw Gomulka | Edward Gierek | Stanisław Kania | Wojciech Jaruzelski | Mieczysław Rakowski

  • Sejm deputy ( People's Republic of Poland)
  • PZPR functionary
  • Person ( Polish resistance 1939-1945)
  • Of the Order of Polonia Restituta (officer )
  • Of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Ritter)
  • Pole
  • Born 1927
  • Man
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