Ignacy Loga-Sowiński

Ignacy Loga-Sowiński
Deputy Chairman of the State Council
In office
June 24, 1965 – February 13, 1971
Member of the Polish State Council
In office
February 20, 1957 – February 13, 1971
Personal details
Born(1914-01-20)20 January 1914
Varnkewitz
Died10 December 1992(1992-12-10) (aged 78)
Warsaw
Political partyPolish United Workers' Party
Awards Medal im. Ludwika Waryńskiego

Ignacy Loga-Sowiński (January 20, 1914 – December 10, 1992)[1] was a Polish trade union activist and politician. He was a member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was a member of the State National Council from 1956 to 1971. He also served as the deputy chairman of the council and was an ambassador of the Polish People's Republic to Turkey from 1971 to 1978.

Early life

He is the son of Władysław and Honorata née Misiak, his father being an agricultural laborer. He received elementary education. Ignacy's profession was a bricklayer in the pre-war period, he lived in Łódź during that time.[2] He was involved in the Communist Youth Association (KZMP) and joined the Communist Party of Poland in 1935.[3] In February 1938, he was arrested during a search that revealed a manuscript of communist appearance.[2] During the years 1938–1939, he was imprisoned for political reasons. During the 1939 Invasion of Poland, he was released from prison.

Career

1940s

During the occupation of Poland, he was active in the underground resistance. He was together with Mieczysław Moczar a co-founder of the organization Front Fighting for Our and Your Freedom, which after the uprising of Polish Workers Party transforms into its cells.[4] Afterward, he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party. He then became a Representative of the Central Committee of the PPR for the Lublin region from June to July 1944.[3]

Starting from January 1945, he was a representative of the Provisional Government for Łódź Voivodeship. Following that month, he became First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Polish Workers Party in Łódź, and from 1946 he was a part of the Łódź Committee of the Polish Workers Party. In 1943, he served as a deputy member of the Central Committee of the PPR and in that same year, a member of the Central Committee of the PPR. He served these last two positions to the year, 1948. In the year 1944, he was made a member of the Krajowej Narodowej and in 1947, made a part of the Sejm Ustawodawczy of Poland.

From 1949, he was associated with trade unions: he was the chairman of the District Trade Union Commission and the Provincial Council of Trade Unions in Wrocław. He was also the secretary of the Association of Trade Unions, serving all of these roles until 1956.

1950s

In 1956, he became chairman of the Central Council of Trade Union. The following year, he was elected to the State Council of Poland in 1957. Whilst he was a member. In the year 1958, he was the deputy chairman of the National Committee National Unity Front and would serve that role until 1971.

1960s

He was elected to the position of Deputy Chairman of the State Council of Poland in 1965. In June 1968 he became a member of the Honorary Committee of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Mikołaj Kopernik.[5]

1970s

Loga-Sowiński joined the workers' uprising from December 14 to 22 in the year 1970. During this time he was acting chairman of the central council of the trade union federation CRZZ, after which he was replaced by Władysław Kruczek. In the year 1971, he was made an ambassador of the People's Republic of Poland to Turkey until the year 1978.

Death

He died in 1992 due to natural causes. He was buried next to his mother, Honorata, in Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.[6]

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Loga-Sowiński Ignacy". encyklopedia.pwn.pl. 3933545. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Reports of the Łódź voivode. 1938, Cz. 2 '; Łódź 2014, p. 300 (List of judgments for September 1938); sentenced by the judgment of the District Court in Łódź on August 16, 1938, to 2 years in prison and the loss of civil rights for 5 years (with arrest from April 28, 1938), on the basis of art. 97, § 1, in connection with Art. 93 § 2 .
  3. ^ a b Information in BIP IPN.
  4. ^ Tragedy of the Communist Party of Poland , edited by Jarema Maciszewski. Book and Knowledge, 1989, p. 192, ISBN 83-05-12429-0.
  5. ^ "Urania", No. 3, March 1969, p. 84.
  6. ^ "Cmentarz Wojskowy". Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  7. ^ "Awarding of decorations at Belweder Palace". Nowiny (Rzeszów daily): 1. July 20, 1964. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  8. ^ "Profile on the website of the Sejm Library". Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  9. ^ M.P. z  1946  r. Nr  25 , poz.  41.
  10. ^ M.P. z  1955  r. Nr  106 , poz.  1419.
  11. ^ "Życie Partii", January–March 1987, p. 55.

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