Adam Rapacki

Adam Rapacki ( born December 24, 1909 in Lviv, † October 10, 1970 in Warsaw) was a Polish politician and economist.

Life and work

In the interwar period he was a member of various socialist organizations and became a soldier in 1939 as a German prisoner of war. After the war he became a socialist again in 1948 by the union of the Polish Socialist Party and the Polish Workers 'Party member of the Polish United Workers' Party. Between 1948 and 1968 he was a member of the Politburo. Already in 1947, appointed Minister for Shipping, Three years later he moved on to the Department of Higher Education. The new party leader Gomulka made ​​him Secretary of State in 1956. During the communist, anti -Semitic purges in March 1968 Rapacki withdrew from political life.

Rapacki Plan

As Foreign Minister, he laid on the 12th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in October 1957 a follow named him plan ( Rapacki Plan ) for the creation of a nuclear -free zone in Central Europe, the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People's Republic and later Czechoslovakia should include. The plan has been in the People's Republic of Poland hailed as a part of the " peace policy " of the Soviet camp in Europe, rejected by the Western powers, but because of the feared strategic weakening of NATO in comparison to the Warsaw Pact.