Adrian Zandberg

Adrian Zandberg (2020)

Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg (* 4. December 1979 in Aalborg ( Denmark )) is a Polish doctor of historians and computer scientists and a board member of the leftist Party Razem ( "Together").

His parents moved from Poland to Denmark in 1967, where Zandberg was born. In 1985 he returned to Poland with his parents. After studying history at the University of Warsaw , he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the British and German social democratic left. He also studied computer science at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Today he works as a lecturer at this university and as a freelance programmer.

Political engagement before 2015

Zandberg was already politically active during his studies. In the presidential election campaign in 2000 , he worked on the campaign team of candidate Piotr Ikonowicz ( Polish Socialist Party , PPS), who achieved 0.22%. In 2001 he was involved in the founding of the Internet portal lewica.pl , which he left because, in his opinion, it became "pro-Russian". Together with the former civil rights activist Jacek Kuroń (1934-2004), Zandberg published an article on November 14, 2001 in the largest Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza about social justice in developing Poland. In 2004 he wrote an open letter with Kuroń, which he published during a counter-event to the European Economic Forum in Warsaw.

Zandberg was elected chairman of the youth organization of the social democratic party Unia Pracy ( Forum Młodych Unii Pracy, FMUP) and was a member of the UP Executive Committee. He left the UP in 2005 with other leading members, including a. the chairman Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka , after it became clear that she would bind herself permanently as a junior partner to the post-communist party SLD around the former Prime Minister Leszek Miller , whose policies Zandberg had already criticized as neoliberal because of the introduction of a flat tax in 2003 . As chairman of the FMUP, however, Zandberg failed with the attempt to detach it from the UP and rename it to Młodzi Socjaliści ("Young Socialists"). He then resigned from the FMUP together with most of the board members and founded the Młodzi Socjaliści as a non-party youth organization. In 2009, a group around Zandberg in the constituency of Białystok under the name PPS in the European elections . He then became involved for the Polish Greens at times , but without formally belonging to the party.

Foundation of the Razem party and general election in 2015

Zandberg remained largely unknown to a wider public. This changed in 2015 when he and two other former members of the Młodzi Socjaliści and the Greens (Marcelina Zawisza and Maciej Konieczny) founded the Razem party (“jointly”), which ran for the parliamentary elections on October 25, 2015 . He took over the activities in the social networks for them , designed their website and was elected to the nine-member board.

On October 20, 2015, he appeared in a televised debate with the leaders of eight parties running for parliamentary elections. Zandberg was the only participant to plead for the unconditional admission of Syrian war refugees . Although he represented the smallest party represented, which was believed to have little chance of success, the media identified him as the winner of this discussion. In the election, his party achieved 3.62% (instead of the approximately 1% previously expected from opinion polls) a surprising success, which the media generally attributed to Zandberg's appearance in the television debate. However, the election result was not enough to pass the 5% hurdle that applies to individual parties. Since the increase in votes also came at the expense of the competing party alliance United Left (including the SLD, PPS, Greens and Twój Ruch ), which failed with 7.55% of the 8% hurdle applicable to party alliances, no left party at all moved in the Sejm. Zandberg was then u. a. of Newsweek Polska , the role attributed to a "gravedigger of the left".

In the 2015 Sejm elections, Zandberg was first on the list in the Warsaw constituency. He received 49,711 votes d. H. 4.5% of all votes cast.

In the parliamentary elections on October 13, 2019, he was elected Sejm member of the 9th legislative period with 140,898 votes.

Private life

During his studies he was active in the FMUP with Barbara Nowacka , founded the Młodzi Socjaliści (Young Socialists) with her and was in a relationship with her for four years. Nowacka is until today (October 2017) Chancellor of the Polish-Japanese Academy for Information Technology, where Zandberg is employed. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, Zandberg and Nowacka (the latter as chairman of the United Left electoral committee) were direct competitors.

Zandberg is married to Barbara Audycka, a PhD sociologist and press spokeswoman for Habitat for Humanity Poland, and has two children.

Trivia

Paweł Kukiz , a rock musician who competed with his own Kukiz'15 list , criticized Zandberg for a T-shirt with the likeness of Karl Marx that he had worn several years earlier at an event in Sweden.

Fonts (in German)

• "In preparation for the new world". Polish Prohibitionists, the Early International Temperance Movement, and Processes of Transfer. In: Steffi Marung & Katja Naumann (eds.): Forgotten diversity. Territoriality and internationalization in East Central Europe since the middle of the 19th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30166-1 , pp. 221-239.

Web links

• Private website (including features and interviews, as of October 30, 2017)
• Adrian Zandberg - new star of the left? Report on Poland today
• Zandberg: To my, niezamożna większość. Detailed interview with Krytyka Polityczna (Polish)

Commons : Adrian Zandberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Agata Szczerbiak: Kim jest Adrian Zandberg? In: Polityka.pl. October 21, 2015, accessed October 26, 2015 (Polish). 
2. ^ Jacek Kuroń, Adrian Zandberg: III RP dla każdego. In: Gazeta Wyborcza. November 14, 2001, accessed October 26, 2015 (Polish). 
3. ^ Jacek Kuroń: Do przyjaciół alterglobalistów. In: lewica.pl. April 26, 2004, accessed October 26, 2015 (Polish). 
4. ↑ Moderate presence on the occasion of the World Economic Forum: European Economic Summit in Warsaw. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. May 3, 2004, accessed October 27, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Ruchy w Unii Pracy. In: lewica.pl. April 21, 2005, accessed October 26, 2015 (Polish). 
6. ↑ PAP: Dyplom "ex-socjaldemokraty" dla premiera Millera. (No longer available online.) In: wiadomosci.wp.pl. June 10, 2003, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 (Polish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Adrian Zandberg zwycięzcą Debaty? Internet oszalał na punkcie polityka Partii Razem . Wyborcza.pl. October 20, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
8. ↑ Adrian Zandberg: Pogrzebał Lewice, załatwił PiS wiktorię. Bo wygrał Debatę. (No longer available online.) In: Newsweek.pl. October 26, 2015, archived from the original on October 29, 2015 ; Retrieved October 29, 2015 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Sejm elections
10. ↑ Klub Jagielloński: Audycka: Najem jest lepszy od własności | Jagielloński24 . ( jagiellonski24.pl [accessed October 30, 2017]).
11. ↑ Adam Szostkiewicz: T-shirt Zandberga. In: polityka.pl. October 22, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015 (Polish).