Albin Siwak

Albin Siwak (January 27, 1933 – April 4, 2019[1]) was a Polish politician, author of memoirs and a social activist.

Albin Siwak in 1981

Biography

Son of Józef and Czesława née Mielczarek.[2] He was born in Wołomin. In 1935 he and his family moved to Praga.[2] His father was a member of the Polish Socialist Party, his mother worked as a housewife. He spent World War II and occupation of Poland with his family in Warsaw.[3] After the war, he and his father left for the Recovered Territories, where in the village of Lutry.[4] He completed seven classes of elementary school.

In 1950 he went to Warsaw in search of work. He was directed to the masonry brigade. He quickly became a shock worker.[5] From the 1950s he was an active activist in trade unions. From 1968 he belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party.[6] He was delegate for the VIII, IX and X Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party. In 1979, the Congress of Trade Unions elected him a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions.

From July 1981 was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party. From 1981 to 1986 was a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party. In the 1980s, he was an opponent and critic of Solidarity movement. From 1986 he was a councilor of the Polish Embassy in Tripoli. Dismissed from his diplomatic position in March 1990 by Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski.[7][5][8]

After 1990, he was a member of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. He was removed from the party after the conflict with Leszek Miller.

References
  1. Eckardt, Maciej (13 April 2019). "Wczoraj pochowano Albina Siwaka - ikonę PRL-u". salon24.pl (in Polish). Salon24. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  2. "Aferyprawa - Albin Siwak - Bez strachu - WSPOMNIENIA STARE I NOWE - czyli jak ujarzmiano Polskę i Polaków". www.aferyprawa.eu. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  3. "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  4. "Historia. Ochrzcili mnie betonem i ciemniakiem". gazetaolsztynska.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  5. Koczanowicz, Leszek (2008). Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-Communist Poland. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 35. ISBN 9781845455101. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  6. "Trwały ślad po Siwaku… | Myśl Polska". www.mysl-polska.pl. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
  7. "Doc. 4880: Situation in Poland and East-West Relations". Documents: Working Papers of the Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session, First Part, Volume 2. Stausborg: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 19 April 1982. p. 58. 10. The most prominent of hardliners are Albin Siwak, a member of the Politburo and Tadeusz Grebski
  8. Michnik, Adam (1998). Grudzińska Gross, Irena (ed.). Letters from freedom post-cold war realities and perspectives. Translated by Cave, Jane. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 271. ISBN 9780520922495. Retrieved 26 March 2016.


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