Key facts
- Prime minister
- Józef Cyrankiewicz
- Chairman
- Aleksander Zawadzki
- Preceded by
- Bolesław Bierut
- Succeeded by
- Władysław Gomułka
- First secretary
- Władysław Gomułka
- President in exile
- August Zaleski Council of Three
- Born
- ( 1906-08-16 ) 16 August 1906, Kraków , Galicia , Austria-Hungary (now Poland )
- Died
- 1 May 1989 (1989-05-01) (aged 82), Warsaw , Polish People's Republic
- Resting place
- Powązki Military Cemetery , Warsaw
- Party
- Communist Party of Poland (1929–1938), Polish Workers' Party (1942–1948), Polish United Workers' Party (1948–1968)
- Spouse
- Rachela née Silbiger (1907–1996)
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Place of birth
- Kraków
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Jagiellonian University
- Political party
- Communist Party of Poland
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Field of work
- politics
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Edward Ochab 2.jpg
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- place of burial
- Powązki Military Cemetery
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- Edward Ochab
- date of birth
- 1906-08-16
- date of death
- 1989-05-01
- name in native language
- Edward Ochab
- relative
- Longin Pastusiak
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Ochab ( Polish: [ˈɛdvart ˈɔxap]; 16 August 1906 – 1 May 1989) was a Polish communist politician and top leader of Poland between March and October 1956.
As a member of the Communist Party of Poland from 1929, he was repeatedly imprisoned for his activities under the Polish government of the time. In 1939, Ochab participated in the Defense of Warsaw but afterwards moved to the Soviet Union, where he became an early organizer and manager in the Union of Polish Patriots. In 1943, he joined General Berling's Polish Army on the Eastern Front as a political commissar and quickly advanced in its ranks. From 1944 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) and a deputy in the State National Council. In 1945, he became minister of public administration and held the successive positions of propaganda chief in the PPR (1945–1946), chief of cooperative associations (1947–1948), and chief of the Association of Trade Unions (ZZZ) (1948–1949). From December 1948, he was a deputy member of the (communist) Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) Politburo, and a full member from 1954.
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