Andrzej Kremer

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Andrzej Stanisław Kremer (born August 8, 1961 in Krakow , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish lawyer , diplomat and deputy foreign minister.

Life

Kremer graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1984 . In 1993 he became a doctor of law there . In 1986 he passed the judge's exam. In 1983 he became a research assistant at the historical-legal institute, and in 1989 research assistant at the chair for Roman law at the University of Bochum . He is the author of scientific articles in the field of Roman law, diplomatic and consular law, and public international law.

Since 1991 he has been associated with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych , MSZ ). He was vice consul and consul in Hamburg , then he was head of the consular department of the Polish embassy in Bonn (as an authorized ministerial advisor). From 1998 to 2001 he headed the ministerial department, after which he was consul general in Hamburg. Since 2005 he has worked again in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (among other things as director in the department for legal contracts).

On March 10, 2008, Kremer became Deputy Minister in the Polish Foreign Ministry. Since November 27, 2009 he worked at the Polish Institute for International Affairs ( Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych ).

On April 10, 2010, Kremer was part of a Polish delegation headed 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.

Posthumously , on April 16, 2010, Kremer was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Kremer, Andrzej
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kremer, Andrzej Stanisław (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer, diplomat and deputy foreign minister
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Smolensk , Russia