Wacław Frankowski (25 October 1903 – 19 March 1981) was a Polish

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Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

in the

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, diplomat of the

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from 1953 to 1956 ( envoy extraordinary and the

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). Born in Łódź in 1903, he was a weaver and a locksmith by profession. As a member of the

Communist Party of Poland The interwar Communist Party of Poland ( pl, Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a December 1918 merger of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland a ...

(KPP), at the beginning of the 1920s he became one of the leaders of the communist activists in Łódź. On 30 July 1923 he was arrested for his participation in strikes. On 2 October he was condemned by the District Court in Łódź to three years of imprisonment. After his release in 1928 he was directed by KPP to a semi-legal job at the theatre Labour Stage, whose director was Witold Wandurski. He was also active in the weavers union and in the association of

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. In years 1930 – 1937 he was a labour union deputy in the factories of Kinderman and Szac, when he got arrested again and condemned for two years and seven months of imprisonment. He served his sentence in Łódź,

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (admin ...

and

Wronki Wronki (german: Wronke) is a town in the Szamotuły County, western-central Poland, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is located close to the Warta River to the northwest of Poznań on the edge of Noteć Forest, and has a population ...

. During the

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he was deported as forced labour to Germany, where he worked in a mine. Having returned to Poland in 1945, he joined the

Polish Workers' Party The Polish Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 1948 ...

(PPR), later

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(PZPR) and until 1959 he fulfilled there the duties of the Director of the Economic Department. Subsequently, he began his career in the Polish diplomacy. From 1953 to 1956 he held the post of the envoy extraordinary and the

of PRL in

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. He prompted the advancement and signed the Polish – Brazilian trade agreement. He was awarded an

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(Grand Cross – 1st class) and a

Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland The Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (Polish: ''Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej'') is a former Polish civil state award established by the Council of State on 23 May 1954 to recognize services to the state. It was created to mark ...

.Diário Oficial da União (DOU)
Brasil: 06-09-1956. ata dostępu: 22-06-2014 p. 2 He died in Łódź in 1981.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frankowski, Waclaw 1903 births 1981 deaths Diplomats from Łódź People from Piotrków Governorate Communist Party of Poland politicians Diplomats of the Polish People's Republic Polish Workers' Party politicians