Zygmunt Modzelewski

Zygmunt Modzelewski (April 15, 1900, Częstochowa – June 18, 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish communist politician, professor, economist and diplomat.

Zygmunt Modzelewski

Life and career

He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and Communist Party of Poland. From 1923 to 1937, he was a member of the French Communist Party and even joined its Central Committee. From 1937 in the Soviet Union, he joined the Union of Polish Patriots, Central Bureau of Polish Communists and became the first director of Polpress, a precursor to the Polish Press Agency. Later, he joined the Polish Workers' Party and Polish United Workers' Party, of which he eventually became the member of its Central Committee. He was also a member of the Polish Council of State and a deputy to the State National Council and Legislative Sejm. He was also a Polish delegate at the session of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations. Involved in the work of the Slavic Committee in Poland. From 1947 to 1951 he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1951, rector of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party.

He received the Order of the Builders of People's Poland. He was also the adoptive father of Karol Modzelewski.

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