Zbigniew Messner

Zbigniew Messner ( born March 13, 1929 in Striy in Lviv, now Ukraine, † January 10, 2014 in Warsaw) was a Polish politician and economist.

From 1972 he was professor at the University of Economics in Katowice, where he had also been studied, as well as 1975-1982 rector. 1981 elected a member of the Politburo of the PZPR, he took over a year later, the function of the First Party Secretary of the Katowice Voivodeship ( to 1983 ). From 1983 to 1985 he was Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 1985 to 1988, Prime Minister. On behalf of General Jaruzelski, he should initiate economic reforms that eventually failed completely. As a referendum on these reforms, which was used by the population as first referendum against the communist regime for over 40 years, in 1987 failed, Messner filed on 19 September 1988 in his resignation.

Messner was in public, where he was not particularly popular, as rather apolitical technocrat. With the failure in the June 1989 elections and his political career was over, he returned to the science.

He was the author of numerous publications on economic computer science and accounting.