Aleksander Szczygło

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Aleksander Szczygło (2006)

Aleksander Marek Szczygło (born October 27, 1963 in Jeziorany ; † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish lawyer and politician and was a member of the Sejm from 2001 to 2006. He was head of the Lech Kaczyńskis Presidential Office from August 2, 2006 until February 7, 2007 and since then Minister of Defense in the Jarosław Kaczyńskis government until the cabinet of Donald Tusk's government was sworn in on November 16, 2007.

education

In 1990 he graduated from the Department of Law and Administration of the University of Gdansk under the direction of Lech Kaczyński. In 1996, he completed a postgraduate degree in related discipline at the University of Wisconsin ; he was also an intern in the United States Congress .

Professional and political career

In 1990 and 1991 he worked as an assistant to Senator Lech Kaczyński of the Obywatelski Klub Parlamentarny (OKP) (German parliamentary citizens' club ) in Gdansk . At the same time he worked in the legal department of the Solidarność union .

His professional career was also linked to the person of Lech Kaczyński: from 1991 to 1992 he worked as a legislative specialist in the Biuro Bezpieczęstwa Narodowego (German Office for National Security ) led by Kaczyński and after Kaczyński's appointment as chairman of the Supreme Control Commission of the Republic of Poland ( Najwyższa Izba Kontroli (NIK) ) he became director of its board of directors; he stayed there until 1995.

In 1997 he became advisor to the Supreme Inspector of the National Labor Inspectorate. From 1997 to 2000 he worked as Director of the Information and European Development Department in the Office of the Committee for European Integration . In 2001 he was an advisor to the PKO bank .

2001 was elected to the Sejm on the list of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party. A re-election took place on September 25, 2005. As a parliamentarian, he mainly devoted himself to the question of European integration. On December 23, 2005, he was appointed to the post of State Secretary in the Ministry of Defense . He remained in this post until August 2, 2006. On that day he was given the position of head of the presidential chancellery, which also gave up his mandate.

On February 5, 2007, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Jarosław Kaczyński, suggested that he should succeed Radosław Sikorski as Defense Minister, who had resigned. The official appointment to the Council of Ministers by President Lech Kaczyński took place on February 7, 2007. On March 14, he received the confirmation of the National Security Council ( Rada Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego ). On January 15, 2009, he became head of the National Security Bureau ( Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego ).

On April 10, 2010, Szczygło was part of a Polish delegation led by President Lech Kaczyński , who was to travel to the memorial in Russia on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre . However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military airfield , he was killed along with other high-ranking representatives of Poland. He was buried on April 21 in the Powązki Military Cemetery ( Cmentarz Wojskowy na Powązkach ).

Posthumously Szczygło was the Commander's Cross with Star of 16 April 2010 Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyź Komandorski for Gwiazda Orderu Rebirth of Poland) awarded.

Web links

Commons : Aleksander Szczygło  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. a b c d e website Biuro Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Szef Biura Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego ( Memento of 13 December 2009 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 15, 2015.
  2. Dziennik, Pogrzeb szefa BBN - Aleksander Szczygło pochowany na Powązkach 21 April, 2010
  3. Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010