Henryk Jablonski

Background

JABLONSKI, Henryk was born on December 27, 1909 in Waliszew. Son of Wladyslaw Jabtoriski and Pelagia Jabloriska.

Education

University of Warsaw.

Career

From 1931, Jablonski was a member of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). During World War II he fought in the battle of Narvik (Norway) and then joined the French Resistance. In 1945 Jablonski become a member of the State National Council (KRN), and during the years 1946 and 1948 he had high functions in the PPS (chairman of Central State Committee and its vice-leader). He approved joining the PPS with the Polish Workers' Party (PPR, Polska Partia Robotnicza).

From 1947 to 1972, he was a deputy to the Sejm. In 1948 he was appointed professor at Warsaw University (from 1952 member of Polish Academy of Sciences – PAN). Between 1948 and 1981, Henryk Jablonski was in the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (KC PZPR).

In 1972, based on the initiative of Edward Gierek, Jablonski was chosen the de jure leader (chairman of the Council of State) of the People's Republic of Poland. From 1976 to 1983 he was a chief of the Front of National Unity (FJN, Front Jednosci Narodu). From 1983 to 1990 he was chief of ZBoWiD, the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy, an organisation of war veterans. In 1985 he was replaced as head of state by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

Works

• Other Work

  • The Military Criminal Court in 1794 1935, Aleksander Waszkowski—Warsaw’s Last Military Chief in the Insurrection of 1863-1864 1937, Public Opinion, Parliament and the Press, At the Origins of the Present Day 1947, Polish National Autonomy in the Ukraine in 1917-1918, 1948, The Policy of the Polish Socialist Party during the First World War 1958, The Birth of the Second Republic 1918-1919 1962, School, Teacher, Education 1972, Independence and National Traditions 1978, International Importance of Polish Fights for National Independence in XVIII and XIX Centuries 1978, Selected Works Vols. I-III 1986, Vols. IV-VI 1988.

Membership

National Council 1945-1947, Seym 1947-1989. Central Committee Polish United Workers’ Party 1948-1981, 1986-1990, Deputy member Political Bureau 1970-1971, member 1971-1981. Polish Academy, of Sciences 1952-1956, member since 1956, General Secretary 1955-1965.

Presidium of All-Polish Committee of National Unity Front 1972-1976. Academy, of Romanian Socialist Republic since 1965. Czechoslovak. Academy, of Sciences since 1965.

USSR Academy, of Sciences since 1966. Mongolian Academy, of Sciences since 1975. Mexican Academy, of History since 1979.

Roma Club.

• Polish Socialist Party

  1931

• Polish United Workers' Party

Interests

• Reading, walking.

Connections

Father:

Wladyslaw Jabtoriski

Mother:

Pelagia Jabloriska

Spouse:

Jadwiga Wierzbicka