Józef Beim

Józef Beim (April 13, 1937 - April 30, 1987) was a Polish major general of the Milicja Obywatelska and a PhD in economics at the Kraków University of Economics.

Biography He was born in the village of Klaniny as the son of Edmund and Eleonora. From 1956 he was an officer of the Citizens' Militia. In the years 1956-1957 he studied at the Officers' School of the Citizens' Militia in Szczytno. From 1957 he was an officer of the Criminal Department of the Provincial Headquarters of the Citizens' Militia in Gdańsk. From 1960 he was deputy district commander in Puck, from 1962 district commander of the MO in Tczew, from 1966 city and district commander in Elbląg. From 1970 city commander in Gdynia, from 1973 city commander in Kraków, and from 1975 deputy provincial commander in Kraków. From 1978 he was deputy commander-in-chief, and from October 1981 he was commander-in-chief of the Citizens' Militia. Graduate of the Faculty of Industrial Economics at the University of Gdańsk. Brigadier general of the MO since 1979, and Major general of the MO since 1984. He received both nominations in the Belweder Palace from the hands of the chairman of the Council of State of the Polish People's Republic, Henryk Jabłoński.

Member of the Polish United Workers' Party since 1958. In the years 1973–1975 member of the Committee for Public Security and Order of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in Kraków. At the 10th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party in 1986 elected to the Central Control and Audit Commission of the Polish United Workers' Party.

He died on 30 April 1987 and was buried on 4 May 1987 at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.

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