Andrzej Czuma
Andrzej Bobola Czuma (born December 7, 1938 in Lublin , Poland ) is a Polish politician , lawyer and historian . From January 23, 2009 to October 7, 2009 he was Minister of Justice in Donald Tusk's government .
He was a longtime opposition activist during the time of the People's Republic of Poland , was persecuted and oppressed and had lived in exile since the 1980s.
Life
Andrzej Czuma graduated from the Law of the University of Warsaw and founder of the anti-communist freedom movement "Ruch" . In June 1970 he was arrested by the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland and sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to overthrow the socialist system. At that time, Czuma was the founder (alongside, among others, Leszek Moczulski , Aleksander Hall and Marian Piłka ) and spokesman for the Movement for Defense of Human and Civil Rights (ROPCiO) and editor of the magazine “Opinia”.
In March 1980 he was arrested for three months for organizing the National Independence Day celebrations at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. From September 1980 he worked as an advisor to Solidarność in Silesia, as well as editor and publisher of the magazine "Wiadomości Katowickie". From December 12, 1981 to December 23, 1982 Andrzej Czuma was detained in the internment camps in Białołęka, Jaworze and Darłówek. Since 1986 he lived in exile in Chicago (USA), where he worked as a construction worker and painter in the first few years. Since 1988 he has had his own broadcast on the station WNVR 1030 and later on WPNA1490 in Chicago.
Since December 12, 2006 he has been a member of the Sejm of the 5th cadence and since November 5, 2007 he has been a member of the Sejm of the 6th cadence. On January 23, 2009 Andrzej Czuma succeeded Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski in the position of Minister of Justice. Due to the so-called gambling affair , the suspicion of supporting the gambling industry to the detriment of the Polish state, he was dismissed from Tusk's cabinet in October 2009.
honors and awards
- The President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Czuma
- Awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the exiled President Kazimierz Sabbat .
References
literature
- Piotr Byszewski: Działania Służby Bezpieczeństwa wobec organizacji Ruch . Institute for National Remembrance , Warszawa 2008. ISBN 978-83-60464-86-1
- Grzegorz Waligóra: ROPCiO . Institute for National Remembrance , Warszawa 2006. ISBN 83-60464-10-3
- Grzegorz Waligóra: Documenty uczestników ROPCiO 1977-1981 . Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2006. ISBN 83-7188-902-X
Web links
- Official website (Polish)
Footnotes
Donald Tusk | Elżbieta Bieńkowska | Michał Bonuses | Jolanta Fedak | Adam Giersz | Cezary Grabarczyk | Aleksander Grad | Katarzyna Hall | Ewa Kopacz | Andrzej Kraszewski | Barbara Kudrycka | Krzysztof Kwiatkowski | Jerzy Miller | Waldemar Pawlak | Jacek Rostowski | Marek Sawicki | Tomasz Siemoniak | Radosław Sikorski | Bogdan Zdrojewski
Andrzej Czuma (2009) | Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski (2007–2009) | Zbigniew Derdziuk (2007–2009) | Mirosław Drzewiecki (2007–2009) | Bogdan Klich (2007-2011) | Maciej Nowicki (2007-2010) | Grzegorz Schetyna (2007-2009)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czuma, Andrzej |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Czuma, Andrzej Bobola (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm, lawyer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lublin , Poland |