Background
Rapacki was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary on 24 December 1909.
Rapacki was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary on 24 December 1909.
From 1956 to 1968, he was the foreign minister in the cabinet of Józef Cyrankiewicz. On 2 October 1957, he presented at the United Nations his plan for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe (comprising Czechoslovakia, Poland, East and West Germany) — known as the "Rapacki Plan". Rapacki died in Warsaw, aged 60, on 10 October 1970.
He was a member of the Polish Socialist Party from 1945 to 1948 as well as its successor, the Polish United Workers" Party. He was also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee up until 1968, on board as the minister of seafaring and the minister of higher education and research.