Leon Kasman | |
Birth Place: | Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (today Poland) |
Birth Date: | 28 October 1905 |
Office: | Chief editor of Trybuna Ludu |
Termstart: | 8 September 1944 |
Termend: | December 1953 |
Death Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
Resting Place: | Powązki Military Cemetery |
Party: | Polish United Worker's Party |
Citizenship: | Poland |
Nationality: | Polish Jewish |
Leon Kasman, pseudonyms "Adam," "Bolek," "Janowski," "Zygmunt"[1] (born 28 October 1905 in Łódź; died 12 July 1984 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist journalist and politician of Jewish descent.[2] [3] Head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party.[4]
He was a first editor-in-chief of the Trybuna Ludu daily, deputy to the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic. As a result of the conflicts within the communist party, Kasman resigned from this function in December 1953.[5] He was among the “Puławianie"[6] faction in PZPR. Leon Kasman died in 1984 and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.