Piotr Jaroszewicz

Infobox Officeholder
name = Piotr Jaroszewicz


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caption = Jaroszewicz as General in late 1940s
order = 5^th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland
term_start = December 23, 1970
term_end = February 18, 1980
vicepresident =
viceprimeminister = Mieczysław Jagielski, Franciszek Kaim, Jan Mitręga, Kazimierz Olszewski, Józef Tejchma, Zdzisław Tomal, Franciszek Szlachcic, Alojzy Karkoszka, Tadeusz Pyka, Longin Cegielski, Tadeusz Wrzaszczyk, Józef Kępa, Kazimierz Secomski, Jan Szydlak
deputy =
president =
primeminister =
predecessor = Józef Cyrankiewicz
successor = Edward Babiuch
birth_date = October 9, 1909
birth_place =
death_date = death date and age|1992|9|1|1909|10|9
death_place = )
constituency =
party = Polish Workers' Party (until 1948)
Polish United Workers' Party
spouse = Alicja Solska
profession = Teacher, Military
religion = Atheist


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Gen. Piotr Jaroszewicz (born October 9, 1909, in Nieśwież, Russian Empire, died September 1, 1992, in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish Communist political figure. He served as the Prime Minister of Poland between 1970 and 1980. He was murdered in 1992.

Piotr Jaroszewicz was born October 8, 1909 in Nieśwież. After finishing the secondary school in Jasło he started working as a teacher and headmaster in Garwolin. After the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi-Soviet alliance he moved to Soviet-occupied zone of Poland. It has been claimed that he was a headmaster in Pinsk gymnasia. However, on July 10, 1940 he was deported to Slobodka, Krasnoborski raion, Arkhangelsk, from Stolin together with his first wife Oksana Gregorevna (born in Salov/Calow 1914) and daughter Olila (born 1940). In 1943 he joined the 1st Polish Army of Gen. Zygmunt Berling. The following year he joined the Polish Workers Party and was promoted to deputy political commander of the 1st Army.

After the war he became the deputy minister of defense (1945-1950). Since 1956 he was the Polish ambassador to COMECON. At the same time between 1952 and 1970 he served as a deputy Prime Minister of Poland and briefly (1954-1956) as the minister of mining industry. Jaroszewicz was a member of the Central Committee of the PZPR since its creation in 1948 and since 1964 he was also a member of the Political Bureau. From December 1970 until February 1980 he was the Prime Minister of Poland. The economical policies of Jaroszewicz and Edward Gierek led to a wave of protests in 1976 and 1980. After his failure in suppressing the Solidarity movement in 1980 he gave up all his posts and was expelled from the party the following year.

Piotr Jaroszewicz and his wife Alicja Solska were murdered September 1, 1992 in mysterious circumstances in their house in Anin near Warsaw.Fate of first wife and daughter, not known.