Zygmunt Modzelewski

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

He came from a working class family and studied at the University and the School of Political Sciences in Paris; In 1928 he received his PhD in Economics (1951 in philosophy). In 1951 he became a full professor in 1952 and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN).

Since 1917 he was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (Polish: Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego Litwy i ), since 1918 the Communist Party of Poland ( KPP later, Communist Party of Poland, Komunistyczna partia Polski ). 1923-1927 he lived in France ( he was traveling on a false passport from, issued in the name Fiszer ), belonged to the Communist Party (PCF ) that from 1924 to 1925 even as a member of the Central Committee. From 1937 to 1945 he lived in the Soviet Union, was a member of the Association of Polish patriots, was sitting in the Central Bureau of Polish Communists and in 1944 became the first director of the Agency Polpress. Since 1944 he was a member of the Polish Workers Party ( PPR) and their central committees of 1945 until 1948.

In 1945, he was Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the USSR, 1945-1947 Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1947 to 1951. From 1951 he was a member ( and Rector ) of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party ( PZPR, dt: PZPR ). He was at the same time also the party and its Central Committee.

1952 to 1954 he was a member of the Rada Państwa, the Council of State. Zygmunt Modzelewski died 1954.

He was a member of the Polish National Council KRN ( Krajowa Rada Narodowa ), a parliament -like assembly in the initial years of the Second World War in the Soviet Union, the provisional Sejm and the Sejm of the first term (from 1945). In 1954 he received the Order for the establishment of People's Poland.

Zygmunt Modzelewski was the adoptive father Karol Modzelewskis, the eponym of the Solidarity trade union.