Władysław Dworakowski

Władysław Dworakowski (10 September 1908 – 17 November 1976) was a Polish communist politician and statesman.

Biography Dworakowski was born in to a poor peasant family in the Lublin Governorate. He was a locksmith by profession and was active in the workers's movement. Dworakowski joined the Young Communist League of Poland in 1931 and later the Communist Party of Poland in 1934 and was a member of the party until its dissolution in 1938. In 1941-1942 he was a member of the Association of Friends of the Soviet Union and later joined the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) shortly after its foundation. He was member of the anti-Nazi resistance in Poland and was a soldier in Gwardia Ludowa and also participated in the Warsaw Uprising. After World War II he was a high ranking functionary in the PPR and later the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). He was the secretary of the Central Committee and the Party District Committees in Gdańsk, Warsaw and Łódź. From November 1952 to March 1954 Dworakowski was Deputy Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland in the government of Bolesław Bierut. At the Second Party Congress in 1954, he became a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and at the same time Secretary of the Central Committee of the…Citește mai mult