- Zbigniew Messner
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name = Zbigniew Messner
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order = 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland
term_start =6 November 1985
term_end =27 September 1988
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predecessor =Wojciech Jaruzelski
successor =Mieczysław Rakowski
birth_date = birth date and age|1929|03|13|df=y
birth_place =Stryi ,Second Polish Republic
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party =Polish United Workers' Party
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profession =Economist
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footnotes =Zbigniew Messner (b.
13 March 1929 inStryj ,Poland ) was aCommunist economist and politician in Poland. In 1972, he became Professor of Economic Academy inKatowice . He was a member of Central Committee ofPolish United Workers' Party from 1981 until 1988, deputy prime minister in 1983–1985 and Prime Minister 1985–1988.In 1988, his
cabinet received amotion of no confidence in theSejm (Parliament ), still dominated by Communists, and had to transfer power toMieczysław Rakowski . This was an unprecedented event in the Communist world, one of the strongest signs of democratic change brought byMikhail Gorbachev .External links
*pl icon [http://www.polskaludowa.com/biografie/Messner.htm Photograph and short biography of Zbigniew Messner]
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