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Edward Gierek (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɛdvart ˈɡʲɛrɛk]; 6 January 1913 – 29 July 2001) [1] was a Polish communist politician who served as the de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic between 1970 and 1980.
Edward Gierek urodził się w rodzinie robotniczej, we wsi Porąbka (dziś dzielnicy Sosnowca w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim) [2]. Rodzina Gierków była bardzo religijna [3]. W 1917 w wypadku w kopalni „Kazimierz” zginął jego ojciec Adam, który był górnikiem [4] (w kopalni zginęli też dziadek i pradziadek ze strony matki) [5].
Edward Gierek was a Communist Party organizer and leader in Poland, who served as first secretary from 1970 to 1980. After his father, a coal miner, was killed in a mine disaster in Silesia, Gierek emigrated with his mother to France, where in 1931 he joined the French Communist Party.
Gierek is a 2022 [1] Polish biographical film directed by Michał Węgrzyn. It is based on the life of Edward Gierek, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1970 to 1980, who in the movie is performed by Michał Koterski. [2]
Long after his fall from power, Edward Gierek, the Polish Communist leader of the 1970s, used to boast that while he had been in charge, no Polish worker was ever shot.
Edward Gierek. (1919—2001) Quick Reference. (b. 6 Jan. 1919, d. 21 July 2001). First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party 1970–80 Born in Porabka Nowy Sacz (Austrian Silesia), in 1923 he emigrated with his mother to France, where he joined the French Communist Party.
Sep 3, 2018 · The article reviews a recent temporary exhibition about former Polish Communist Party leader Edward Gierek in the small town of Sosnowiec and places it in the wider discourses on de-communization and on regional-vs-centralized historical narratives of the recent past.
Jan 1, 2019 · Edward Gierek was First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party between 1970 and 1980. He replaced Władysław Gomułka following workers’ protests, promising to enforce economic reforms and reverse declining standards of living.
Polish Communist leader. Edward Gierek was born in 1913 in the village of Porąbka near Dąbrowa Górnicza, in the Russian part of Poland. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been coal miners; all died in mining catastrophes. His widowed mother worked hard to raise him and his sister.
Edward Gierek was the leader of Poland from 1970 to 1980, and is the most popular communist-era leader of Poland; according to a 2018 poll, 45% of Poles positively assessed Gierek's rule, while only 22% judged it negatively.
