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Zbigniew Messner

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administrational reform of 1975, the number of Voivodeships was increased to 49. Reform was initialized by Gierek, with the goal of weakening the local influential party structures and replacing 17 politically strong Secretaries with 49 Secretaries who would have control over much smaller territories
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from collapse, while preventing political liberalization. Messner's cabinet work led to adaptation of several bills, which included e.g. increasing the independence of state enterprises, allowing for the creation of private banks and
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on economic reforms in 1987, proposed by the government turned out to be a failure, because it did not receive enough votes to make its result binding. In 1988, a wave of strikes organized by the opposition's
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politician and economist. His ancestors were of German Polish descent who had assimilated into Polish society. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in
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and resigned from the Prime Minister's office, he appointed Messner as his successor. This move was not caused by Messner's competence, but his loyalty and subjugation to Jaruzelski.
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trade union spread throughout the country. Messner came under pressure of both opoposition and other factions within PZPR. In the
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As economist and now Prime Minister, Messner was tasked by Jaruzelski with the implementation of some market elements into
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After 1989 Messner retreated from political life and returned to academic career. He died in Warsaw on 10 January 2014.
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However Messner's reforms coincided with drastic price increases and further economic recession. Moreover, the
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and member of PZPR Central Committee and Politburo. There he started to collaborate with
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Secretary of the Voivodeship Committee was leader of the PZPR structures in the given
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from 1988 to 1989. Additionally in the 1960s Messner was the chairman of
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from 1981 to 1988, Deputy Prime Minister from 1983 to 1985, member of
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Burakowski, Adam; Gubrynowicz, Aleksander; Ukielski, Paweł (2021).
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Burakowski, Adam; Gubrynowicz, Aleksander; Ukielski, Paweł (2021).
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In 1954 Messner joined PZPR. In 1980 he became the chairman of the
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Members of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party
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This biographical article about a Polish politician is a
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in 1945, his family decided to leave Stryj and move to
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Polish Communist economist and politician (1929–2014)
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Prime Minister of Poland
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Mieczysław Rakowski
Member of Sejm
Stryj
Stanisławów Voivodeship
Second Polish Republic
Stryi
Ukraine
Warsaw
Poland
Polish United Workers' Party
Economist
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communist
Katowice
communist party apparatus
Central Committee
Polish United Workers' Party
Politburo
Sejm
Prime Minister of Polish People's Republic
State Council of the Polish People's Republic
Piast Gliwice
Stryj
Poland
Ukraine
Soviet annexation of former Polish eastern regions

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