Wacław Czyżewski


Wacław Czyżewski was a Polish military commander and communist activist. He was officer of the People's Guard and People's Army, Divisional general of the Polish People's Army, deputy commander of the Silesian Military District, deputy commandant of the Military University of Technology, head of the Polish mission in the International Commission of Control and Supervision in Korea, chief of the Internal Defense Forces, and deputy chief inspector of the Territorial Defense Forces.

Biography

Czyżewski was born on 25 April 1917 in Zielonka. In the 1930s, he worked in Warsaw as a bricklayer and was associated with the communist movement – he was active in the and the Trade Union of Construction Workers, which remained under the influence of the KPP; the information he himself gave in his biographies about his membership in the Young Communist League of Poland and Communist Party of Poland is uncertain. On 12 August 1940, he was arrested by the Germans during a roundup, and escaped from a rail transport.
From 1941, he was an activist of the, then one of the organizers and activists of the Polish Workers' Party in the Lublin Voivodeship. Officer of the People's Guard and the People's Army, postal commissioner, district secretary and head of the department in the AL Lublin District. Commander of the security of the Main Staff of the People's Army and commander of the personal security of Michał Rola-Żymierski.
He served in the Polish People's Army since 1944, commander of the SG security, from 1946 commander of an infantry regiment. In the early 1950s he was dismissed from the army and subjected to repressions, after October 1956 he returned to service. In 1957 he was promoted to brigadier general, and in 1970 to Divisional general.
From 1956 to 1959 he served as commander of the 1st Mechanized Division, deputy commander of the Silesian Military District for line affairs, deputy commander of the Military Technical Academy for line affairs, head of the Polish mission to the International Commission of Control and Supervision in Korea, chief of the Internal Defense Forces, and from 1974 deputy Chief Inspector of Territorial Defense Forces for paramilitary organizations. He retired since 1984 following a farewell by the Minister of National Defense Florian Siwicki in connection with the end of his professional military service. He was a member of the Polish Workers' Party and then Polish United Workers' Party. From May 1972 to 1985 he was vice-president of the Main Board of the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy. He published memoirs from the occupation years. In the 1980s, he headed the Committee for the Construction of the, which was unveiled in Warsaw on 22 July 1985.
His son is, Minister of the State Treasury in the cabinet of Leszek Miller.

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