Zygmunt Modzelewski | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 6 February 1947 – 20 March 1951 | |
| Preceded by | Wincenty Rzymowski |
| Succeeded by | Stanisław Skrzeszewski |
| Ambassador of Poland to the Soviet Union | |
| In office 2 January 1945 – 28 June 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Stefan Jędrychowski |
| Succeeded by | Henryk Raabe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1900-04-15)15 April 1900 |
| Died | 18 June 1954(1954-06-18) (aged 54) |
| Political party | Communist Party of Poland Polish Workers' Party Polish United Workers' Party |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Profession | Politician, diplomat, economist, professor |
Zygmunt Modzelewski (15 April 1900 – 18 June 1954) was a Polishcommunist politician, professor, economist, anddiplomat.
Modzelewski was born in to the family of a railroad worker. He was a member of theSocial Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania[1] andCommunist Party of Poland. From 1923 to 1937, he was a member of theFrench Communist Party and even joined its Central Committee. In 1937 he moved to the Soviet Union and was arrested byNKVD in the same year in theGreat Purge. Despite torture he refused to give false confession and was released in 1939.[2]
During theSecond World War he joined theUnion of Polish Patriots and theCentral Bureau of Polish Communists and became the first director of Polpress, a precursor to thePolish Press Agency. In May 1943 he was involved in the formation of thePolish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division in the camp inSeltsy. At the rank of captain he became a lecturer in the Political Section of the Division. He joined thePolish Workers' Party in 1944 (and later its successor, thePolish United Workers' Party) and eventually became the member of itsCentral Committee. On January 2, 1945, he was appointed Polish ambassador to the USSR. He held this position until June 28, 1945, when the Moscow Conference on the establishment of the Provisional Government of National Unity ended. After returning to Poland, he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, effectively heading the ministry in the TRJN between 1945 and 1947. He was a member of the Polish delegation to thePotsdam Conference. He was also a Polish delegate to the session of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations. Involved in the work of the Slavic Committee in Poland. Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1947–1951. From 1951, Rector of the Institute for the Education of Scientific Personnel. From 1948, member of the Polish United Workers' Party and at the same time member of the Central Committee of the PZPR. In 1951, he defended his doctoral thesis in philosophy. From 1951, full professor, and from 1952, full member of thePolish Academy of Sciences. Between 1947 and 1952 he was a member ofLegislative Sejm[3] and in the years 1952–1954 a member of thePolish Council of State.
He died on June 18, 1954. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
He was the adoptive father ofKarol Modzelewski.
Order of the Builders of People's Poland (22 July 1954)[4]
Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class (15 April 1950)[5]
Commander's Cross with Star of theOrder of Polonia Restituta (22 July 1949)[6]
Commander's Cross of theOrder of Polonia Restituta[7]
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd Class (19 February 1946)[8]
Order of Merits for the People with Golden Star (Yugoslavia, 1946)[9]
Order of the White Lion, 1st Class (Czechoslovakia, 1947)[10]
Grand Cross ofOrder of the Dannebrog (Denmark, 1947)[11]_1class_BAR.svg)
Grand Cross ofHungarian Order of Merit (Hungary, 1948)[12]
Order of the 9 September 1944, 1st Class (Bulgaria, 1948)[13]
Order of the Star of the Romanian People's Republic (Romania, 1948)[14]| International | |
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