Emil Wojtaszek

{{Short description|Polish politician (1927–2017)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

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| office = Minister of Foreign Affairs

| primeminister =

| predecessor = Stefan Olszowski

| successor = Józef Czyrek

| term_start = 2 December 1976

| term_end = 24 August 1980

| birth_date = {{birth date |df=y|1927|8|22}}

| birth_place = Kraków, Kraków Voivodeship, Poland

| death_date = {{dda|2017|6|17|1927|8|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

| restingplace = Powązki Military Cemetery

| party = Polish United Workers' Party

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| nationality = Polish

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Emil Wojtaszek (22 August 1927 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1976 to 1980.

Biography

Wojtaszek was born in Kraków on 22 August 1927.{{Cite web|title=Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych|publisher=Polish Government|language=pl

|url=http://www.msz.gov.pl/en/c/MOBILE/ministry/polish_diplomacy_archive/former_ministers/emil_wojtaszek_2_xii_1976___24_viii_1980}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsRBAAAAYAAJ|title=Contemporary Poland|publisher=Polska Agencja Interpress|year=1980

|location=Warsaw}} He was central committee secretary of the Polish United Workers' party.{{cite book

|author=George Sanford|title=Military Rule in Poland: The Rebuilding of Communist Power, 1981-1983|year=1986|publisher=St. Martin's Press|page=143

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9cOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143|isbn=978-0-7099-3323-6|location=New York}} He was also an alternate member of the party's political committee responsible for foreign affairs.{{cite web|author=János Tischler|title=Kádár and the Polish Crisis 1980–1981

|url=http://www.rev.hu/portal/page/portal/rev/tanulmanyok/kadarrendszer/polish|work=REV|access-date=14 July 2013}}{{cite news|author=John Darnton|title=Two workers added to Polish politburo|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/30/world/two-workers-added-to-polish-politburo.html|access-date=14 July 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 April 1981|location=Warsaw}}

Wojtaszek served as foreign minister from 2 December 1976 to 24 August 1980. He signed an air service agreement with India on 25 January 1977.{{cite journal|title=Indo-Polish Agreement on Air Services|journal=Foreign Affairs Record|date=January 1977|volume=XXIII|issue=1|page=2

|url=http://mealib.nic.in/far/1977.pdf}} He was succeeded by Józef Czyrek in the post.{{cite news|title=Polish premier ousted

|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19800825&id=ETFPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6217,4986809|access-date=16 June 2013|newspaper=Toledo Blade

|date=25 August 1980|agency=Reuters|location=Warsaw}} He continued to serve at the party's central committee secretariat for foreign affairs after leaving the office.{{cite book|author=Andrew A. Michta|title=The Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944-1988

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ff065RmrAsC&pg=PA242|year=1990|publisher=Hoover Press|isbn=978-0-8179-8863-0|page=242|location=Stanford, CA}} His term at the committee ended in April 1981 during the protests in the country.{{cite journal|author=Leon Shapiro|year=1983|title=Soviet Bloc Nations|journal=The American Jewish Year Book|volume=83|pages=223–230|jstor=23604817}} He also resigned from the Sejm in February 1982.{{cite news|title=Polish parliament to consider reforms|date=26 February 1982

|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WPVVAAAAIBAJ&pg=5201,5790144&dq=emil+wojtaszek&hl=en|access-date=16 June 2013|newspaper=Eugene Register Guard|agency=AP|location=Warsaw}} The same year he was appointed ambassador of Poland to Italy.{{cite news|author=Gertrude Gibbons

|title='From the Italian Land to Poland' and Back: A Conversation with Giovanni Pampiglione|url=https://thetheatretimes.com/from-the-italian-land-to-poland-and-back-a-conversation-with-giovanni-pampiglione/|access-date=28 June 2022|work=The Theatre Times|date=30 May 2020|location=Rome}}

Wojtaszek died in Warsaw on 17 June 2017 aged 89.{{Cite web|url=http://nekrologi.wyborcza.pl/0,11,,394776,Emil-Wojtaszek-nekrolog.html

|title=Emil Wojtaszek, Warszawa, 21 June 2017 - nekrolog|website=nekrologi.wyborcza.pl}} He was buried in Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw.{{cite web|title=Cmentarz Wojskowy|publisher=ZCK|access-date=21 March 2021|language=pl

|url=http://www.cmentarzekomunalne.com.pl/mapa/mapa.php?cment=PWZKI&rzad=1&kwatera=A%2043&grob=5&dane=+imie=+nazwisko=Wojtaszek+check_nazwisko=on+check_ur=+rok=1800+miesiac=1+dzien=1+rok2=2017+miesiac2=6+dzien2=26+check_zg=+rok_zg1=1800+miesiac_zg1=1+dzien_zg1=1+rok_zg2=2017+miesiac_zg2=6+dzien_zg2=26+cmentarz=#kotwica}}

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