Wincenty Rzymowski
Wincenty Rzymowski (19 July 1883, in Kuczbork-Osada – 30 April 1950, in Warsaw) was a Polish politician and writer. Rzymowski was one of the many faces of Stalinism in postwar Poland.
Career
In the Second Polish Republic, Wincenty Rzymowski was a member of the Democratic Party and a known publicist. He was also forced to resign his membership in the Polish Academy of Literature in a controversy involving allegations of plagiarism.
During World War II he began collaborating with the Soviets. He joined the Union of Polish Patriots, was a Minister of Arts and Culture in the Polish Committee of National Liberation and a Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government of National Unity, formed by Stalin. He represented Poland during the signing of the United Nations Charter. In January 1946, he was a Soviet candidate for the position of the first Secretary General of the United Nations, but opposed by the United States. The two powers eventually compromised on Trygve Lie, a socialist from Norway.
Wincenty Rzymowski was also a deputy to the State National Council and Legislative Sejm. From 1947 till the end of his life he was a minister without portfolio in the Polish communist government.
- 1883 births
- 1950 deaths
- People from Żuromin County
- Alliance of Democrats (Poland) politicians
- Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland
- Government ministers of Poland
- Members of the State National Council
- Members of the Polish Sejm 1947–1952
- Diplomats of the Polish People's Republic
- Controversies in Poland
- Members of the Polish Academy of Literature
- Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Order of the Banner of Work
- Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland)
- Burials at Powązki Cemetery
- Polish politician stubs