Paweł Finder

Paweł Finder (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavɛw ˈfindɛr]; pseudonyms: Paul Finder, Paul Reynot; 19 September 1904 – 26 July 1944) was a Polish-Jewish Communist leader and First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) from 1943 to 1944.

Finder came from an affluent Jewish shopkeeping family in Bielsko-Biała, where he was educated. He briefly flirted with Zionism while still at school and visited Palestine. He studied chemistry in Vienna, Mulhouse and Paris, where he was a researcher at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers and was an assistant to Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

Finder graduated as a chemical engineer. From 1922 to 1924 he was a member of the Austrian Communist Party, and from 1924 to 1928 of the French Communist Party, serving in the Central Committee apparatus and writing articles for l'Humanité. He was expelled from France for Communist activity in 1928 and returned to Poland. He completed military service in officer school. He was active in the underground Communist Party of Poland (KPP) until his arrest in 1934, serving as secretary in Silesia, Łódź, Warsaw and Kraków, and as a member of the National Secretariat in 1933.

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