Alicja Grześkowiak

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Alicja Grześkowiak

Alicja Grześkowiak (born June 10, 1941 in Świrz near Przemyślany as Alicja Bautro ) is a Polish national conservative politician and lawyer. She was a senator from 1989 to 2001 and presided over the upper house of the Polish parliament from 1997 to 2001 as Senate Marshal .

Life

She graduated from the Law Faculty of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 1963 and became a lecturer there in 1966. After completing her doctorate in 1971 , she also completed her habilitation there in 1979 and was given an extraordinary professorship in 1990, which she dropped in 1996. From 1990 to 2010 she was professor of criminal law at the Catholic University of Lublin . She teaches canon law at the Catholic seminary in Toruń . She was qualified as a judge in 1969 and has been admitted to the bar since 1988.

In 1980 Grześkowiak joined the Solidarność trade union and was elected as its candidate in the Senate in 1989, to which she served four terms. In the second and third elections in 1991 and 1993 it was set up by the Central Alliance and in the fourth in 1997 by the Solidarność election campaign . After holding the post of Deputy Senate Marshal from 1991 to 1993, she became the third highest-ranking person in the Polish state in 1997 as the first woman to receive the title of Senate Marshal. In politics, she always represented conservative values ​​and was close to the position of the episcopate of the Roman Catholic Church , whose legal advisor she had been since 1988. In 1992 she organized the Polish Federation of Rights to Life Movements (Polska Federacja Ruchów Obrony Życia) , which contributed significantly to the introduction of the abortion ban (Law on Family Planning of January 7, 1993). She headed the Senate Committee to draft the new constitution . On their initiative, Article 18 of the Constitution defined marriage as the union of women and men . After retiring from politics in 2001, Grześkowiak continues to campaign against abortion and is a full member of the Pontifical Academy for Life . In 1991 she received the papal order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice , in 1999 the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of the Crown and in 2001 the Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit . Since 1996 she has been Lady of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher .

Grześkowiak is widowed and has a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Alicja Grześkowiak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ klep: Miller: "Związki partnerskie można przyjąć w oparciu o obecną konstytucję". In: gazeta.pl, March 22, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2017 confirmed: Nomina di Membri Ordinari della Pontificia Accademia per la Vita. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 13, 2017, accessed June 13, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Grześkowiak, Alicja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Świrz near Przemyślany