Today the 40th anniversary of the death of Titan advanced Silesia General Jerzy Ziemek.
Among another things, the Polish thought Club co-organises with Stow. Generation and Stow. The heirs of the Polish Kombatants of planet War II a popular discipline session “General Jerzy Ziętek – for memory and dignity”. We meet on 29 November 2025 at 1 p.m. in Katowice. "Piast Housing Cooperative", ul. Zawisza Czarny 8.
Jerzy Ziętek was born on June 10, 1901. The Silesian Uprising, Brigadier General of the Polish Army, Head of Radzionków Municipality, associate of Parliament II of the Polish Republic and the Polish People's Republic, I Vice-Voivode of Silesia-Dąbrowski and president of the Bureau of the Provincial National Council in Katowice, Katowice Voivodeship, Deputy president of the State Council.
In 1918, he formed a secret Polish student ellipse "Pilareci" with his colleagues, for which he was removed from school. He was active in the national movement in Zobyszowice. In 1920 he joined the Polish Military Organization of advanced Silesia. There, he was promoted to the rank of a subcholer, worked at the Polish Plebiscite Committee. In the 3rd Silesian Uprising he commanded a peculiar platoon (a assault platoon), which defended the civilian population. He became head of Radzionków Municipality and later MP at the Parliament 1931-1935 (BBWR).
After German aggression against Poland, he was evacuated along with another officials of the Silesian Voivodeship to the east of the country. In the summertime of 1940 he was deported and went to a labour camp in Rybinsk on Volga, was released by virtue of amnesty after signing the Sikorski-Majski arrangement. He reached the Caucasus, joined the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR in June 1943. He took the position of Deputy Commander of the 3rd Romuald Traugutt Infantry Division.
He joined the PPR, then the PPR. During the period of bermanowszczyzna he was removed from the PZPR as a consequence of controversy which aroused the sanctificational past and attempts to make administrative authorities on the staff of Silesian insurgents. He was watched by MBP due to the political past in the Second Republic. after October 1956. After taking over the leadership of the Civic Militia in Katowice, Francisz Szlachcic handed over the folders with the collected materials against Zieczek Edward Gierek, who ordered them to burn them entirely in front of witnesses. Jerzy Ziętek returned again in the ranks of PZPR in the 1960s.
Member of the Legislative Parliament (as a typical of the PPR and PZPR) and of the PRL II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII Parliamentary Office (1957–1985). In 1961–1969, president of the Parliamentary Committee on Construction and Municipal Economy. On April 2, 1980, he opened the 8th word of the Sejm as a elder marshal. From 1949 to 1985 he was vice president of the ultimate Council of the Union of Freedom and Democracy Fighters. From 1950 to 1964, deputy president, from 1964 to 1973 president of the Bureau of the Provincial National Council in Katowice, from 1973 to 1975 mayor of Katowice. From 1963 to 1980, he was a associate of the State Council and from 1980 to 1985 was a deputy president of the State Council. president of the Association of Veterans of the Silesian Uprisings. On 5 May 1971, on the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Silesian uprisings, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of the Polish Army.
He established the University of Silesia in Katowice, initiated the construction of the Provincial Park of Culture and Leisure, the sanatorium-healing complex of the profession in Ustroń, the advanced Silesian Centre for the Rehabilitation of “Repty” in Tarnowskie Mountains, led to the construction of the Spodek Hall and tens of another large investments.
The general died on 20 November 1985 in Zabrze, is buried in a cemetery on French Street in Katowice. As requested, there are no features and titles written on his grave. There is only the emblem of Poland.
Decorated among others: the Order of Construction of People's Poland, the Silver Cross of the Order of War Virtuti Militari, the Order of the Grunwald III Cross, the Order of the Order of Work of the First Class, the Commander Cross with the Star of the Order of Rebirth of Poland, the Officer Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland, the Golden Cross of Merit, the Silver Cross of Merit, the Bronze Cross of Merit (1928), the Silesian Insurgency Cross, the Silesian Węga of Valence and Merits of the First Class, the Medal of 10 Years of People's Poland, the Medal of 30th Anniversary of People's Poland, the Medal of 40th Anniversary of People's Poland, the Golden Dignity of Janek Krasicki, the Rodal, the Order of Red Flag (Soviet), the Order of the Red Sztandar (Czechoslovacja).
I will list any investments made on his initiative:
-reconstruction of the Mount Priest complex in Radzionków (1929-1939)
– University of Technology in Gliwice (1945)
– Construction of the Gliwice Oncology Centre (1945)
– Silesian Children's Sanatorium in Rabka (1947-1952)
– Construction of Regional Park of Culture and Leisure (1950)
– Park Hall in Katowice (1953)
– Silesian Song and Dance Band (1953)
– Planetarium and Astronomy Observatory (1955)
– A monument to the Insurgency on the Mount of Saint Anne (1955)
– Silesian Stadium (1956)
– Reactivation of the Silesian technological Institute (1957)
– Silesian Zoo (1957)
– Polish tv in Bytkow (1957)
– Mining Rehabilitation Center in Reptach (1958)
– Construction of the 1000-Year Settlement (1959)
– Silesian Happy Town
– Katowice Department of the Jagiellonian University (1963)
– home of Press in Katowice (1963)
– Silesian Sculpture Gallery (1963-1971)
– Hotel Katowice (1964)
– large reconstruction of Katowice (1959-1966)
– Fala swimming centre in Chorzów (1966)
– Medical and infirmary Complex and the Rheumatological Sanatorium in Ustroń – Profession (1967)
– Monument to the Silesian Insurgents in Katowice (1967)
– construction of recreation complexes for workers in Jawornik, Jaszowc, Jarzebatej (1967)
– University of Silesia (1968)
– Super Unit (1967-1970)
– Provincial Centre for Physical Education (1970)
– Recreational Centre of the Valley of 3 Ponds (1970)
– GOP Forest Belt (1970)
– Office of Artistic Exhibitions (1971)
– Palace of Weddings (1971)
– Hotel “Silesia” (1971)
– The office of the “Silesian” Publishing home (1971)
– Widowisko-Sport Hall "Spodek" (1971)
– Railway Station in Katowice (1965-1972)
– Dinosaur Basin (1975)
– Medical Center Katowice – Ochojec (1972-1976)
– Monument to parent of Poland in Raciborz (1973)
– Kombatant's home in Lublin (1974-1976)
– advanced Silesian Ethnographic Park Museum in Chorzów (1975)
– improvement of the Oncology Centre in Gliwice (1975-1976)
– Silesian Scouts Memorial in Katowice (1983)
And many others.
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