Gierek, Edward

Japanese: ギエレク（英語表記）Gierek， Edward

Born: January 6, 1913, Poronpuka
[Died] July 29, 2001. Cieszyn Polish politician. After losing his father in a mining accident, he moved to France with his mother in 1923. In 1931, he joined the French Communist Party. In 1934, he moved to Belgium, and during World War II, he led the Polish resistance against Germany. He returned to Poland in 1948, and in 1954, he graduated from the Krakow University of Mining and Metallurgy. In 1954, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, and in 1956, a member of the party's Politburo. From 1957 to 1970, he gained popularity among the working class as the party's first secretary in Katowice Province. At the end of 1970, he became the party's first secretary after Władysław Gomułka resigned as a result of the workers' riots in Baltic cities (→ Gdańsk riots). He was reappointed to the same position in 1975. In 1980, he resigned due to illness during a confrontation with workers demanding the establishment of the independent trade union "Solidarity". He was expelled from the party in 1981.

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Japanese:

[生]1913.1.6. ポロンプカ
[没]2001.7.29. チェシン
ポーランドの政治家。炭鉱事故で父を失い，1923年母とフランスに移住。 1931年フランス共産党に加入。 1934年からベルギーに移り，第2次世界大戦中はドイツに対するポーランド人抵抗組織を指導。 1948年帰国し，1954年クラクフ鉱山冶金大学卒業。 1954年ポーランド統一労働者党中央委員，1956年党政治局員。 1957～70年党カトビツェ州第1書記として労働者層の人気を獲得，1970年末バルト海沿岸都市労働者の暴動の結果ウワディスワフ・ゴムウカが退陣したのに伴い党第1書記に就任 (→グダニスク暴動 ) 。 1975年同職に再任。 1980年自主管理労組「連帯」の設立を要求する労働者との対決の最中，病気を理由に退陣。 1981年党から除名された。

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