Mieczysław Jagielski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mieczysław Jagielski

Polish politician

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1924

Place of Birth: Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 27-Feb-1997

Profession: politician, economist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Mieczysław Jagielski

  • Mieczyslaw Zygmunt Jagielski (12 January 1924 – 27 February 1997) was a Polish politician and economist.
  • During the times of the People's Republic of Poland he was the last leading politician from the former eastern regions of pre-Second World War Poland.Jagielski became a communist deputy to the legislative body of Poland, the Sejm, in 1957, and he would continue to serve in that capacity for seven consecutive terms until 1985.
  • In 1959, he was posted to be a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party and appointed to be the Minister of Agriculture.
  • After he left his position as Minister of Agriculture in 1970, Jagielski became a Deputy Prime Minister, and the next year, a member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party.
  • In August 1980, Jagielski represented the government during talks with strikers in the city of Gdansk.
  • He negotiated the agreement which recognized Solidarity, a Polish trade union, as the first officially recognized independent trade union within the Eastern Bloc.
  • Between August 1980 and August 1981, Jagielski continued to interact with representatives of Polish workers, though his health was declining during this period.
  • In late July 1981, Jagielski was fired from the Deputy Premiership, reportedly because he failed to produce a recovery program for the economic crisis Poland was experiencing at that time.
  • The same year, he left his membership of the Political Bureau of the Polish United Workers Party and the Central Committee.
  • He died in Warsaw, Poland from a heart attack at the age of 73.

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