Aleksander Zawadzki

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Birth Date:
16.12.1899
Death date:
07.08.1964
Length of life:
64
Days since birth:
45395
Years since birth:
124
Days since death:
21783
Years since death:
59
Extra names:
Aleksander Zawadzki, Kazik, Wacek
Categories:
Communist, Communist Party worker, General, Minister, Nominee
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery

Aleksander Zawadzki (December 16, 1899 – August 7, 1964) was a Polish Communist political figure and head of state of Poland from 1952 to 1964.

A member of the Communist Youth Union, Zawadzki went into exile in the Soviet Union in 1931, after spending six years in prison for subversive activities against the Polish state and for organizing the murder of Antoni Kamiński, a comrade from the Communist Youth Union. He returned to Poland in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, but was immediately arrested. Freed from prison by the Soviet invasion of the country, Zawadzki eventually joined the Soviet-organized Polish People's Army, rising to the rank of major general.

Upon the conclusion of the Vistula-Oder Offensive, he was appointed the new government's representative to the former German territory of Silesia, which was transferred to Poland after the war. He was elected to the Sejm in 1947, and on November 20, 1952 he was appointed chairman of the Polish Council of State, to replace Bolesław Bierut. He died of cancer in 1964.

Honours and awards

  • Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  • Order of the Builders of People's Poland
  • Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class
  • Cross of Grunwald, 2nd Class
  • Cross of Valour
  • Partisan Cross (12 June 1946)
  • Silesian Insurrectionary Cross

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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