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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Marceli Nowotko
- Marceli Nowotko (Polish pronunciation: [mar't?s?li n?'v?tk?]; pseudonyms: Marian, Stary; 8 July 1893, Warsaw – 28 November 1942, Warsaw) was a Polish communist activist and first secretary of the Polish Workers Party (PPR). Nowotko was a self-educated locksmith.
- He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1916 and the Communist Party of Poland from 1918.
- He organised a soviet communist agency in Ciechanów in 1918 and was a member of the soviet intelligence in Lapy during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920.
- He was a middle-ranking Communist Party of Poland (KPP) functionary between the wars, serving as a local party organiser and on the agriculture section of the central committee.
- From 1923 he was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine. He fled from Rawicz prison to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland in September 1939 and once politically rehabilitated (he had for a time been regarded by the NKVD as a 'provocateur' in the KPP leadership), he served in the Soviet local administration in the Bialystok area of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as head of the soviet in Lapy.
- Following the German invasion of the USSR in 1941 he was assigned to the 'Initiative Group' parachuted into Poland in December 1941 to establish the Polish Workers Party (PPR).
- He headed the leadership troika with Boleslaw Molojec and Pawel Finder.
- The efforts to re-group the Polish communist movement achieved little and by autumn 1942 the organization was under severe pressure from the Gestapo.
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