Andrzej Przewoźnik

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Andrzej Przewoźnik (born May 13, 1963 in the village of Jurków in the former Polish Tarnów Voivodeship , † April 10, 2010 near Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish historian. For many years he was secretary of the Council for the Preservation of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom . He was one of the victims of the plane crash near Smolensk .

Life

As a student of history, Przewoźnik was involved in the democracy movement around the free trade union Solidarność, which was banned at the end of 1981, in the first half of the 1980s . In 1988 he graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow with a master's degree. In 1990 he found a job in the administration of the Cracow Voivodeship .

From 1992 until his death he was general secretary of the Council for the Preservation of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw . With the rank of vice minister , he was in charge of all memorials and monuments in Poland relating to the period of foreign rule from 1939 to 1989; every new initiative had to be approved. One of the main focuses of his work was the exhumation of the victims of the Katyn , Kalinin and Kharkov massacres and the establishment of memorials for them in Katyn , Mednoye and Pyatychatky . He also approved the redesign of the cemetery for the victims of the Lamsdorf camp in 1945/46 and attended the inauguration by the Opole bishop Alfons Nossol . But in Upper Silesia his decisions about the changes to memorials for local soldiers who died in the two world wars provoked protests from politicians from the German minority .

In 2005, Przewoźnik failed with his candidacy for the head of the Institute for National Remembrance (IPN). Shortly before, press reports had appeared that he was an informant for the SB secret police in the 1980s . But the lustration court found that the allegations were incorrect. Also in 2005 he was appointed chairman of the board of trustees of the newly founded European network Remembrance and Solidarity , which was initiated as a counterweight to the center against evictions by the State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss on behalf of the red-green federal government in Berlin.

Przewoźnik was part of the delegation of President Lech Kaczyński , whose members were killed on April 10, 2010 on the way to a commemoration to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre when the presidential plane crashed in a forest near Smolensk. He was buried in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

Works

  • with Adam Strzembosz: Generał Nil . Warsaw 1999.
  • Polskie cmentarze wojenne w Iranie . Adiutor, Warsaw 2002.
  • Cmentarze katyńskie. Terra Nova, Warsaw 2009, ISBN 978-83-89474-12-4 .
  • with Jolanta Adamska: Katyń. Zbrodnia. Pravda. Pamięć. Świat Książki, Warsaw 2010, ISBN 978-83-247-2036-1 .
  • with Kiss Csaba Gy .: Tam na północy. Węgierska pamięć polskiego września. Most, Warsaw 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information, unless otherwise stated, according to Secretary Rady Andrzej Przewoźnik. ( Memento of April 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa
  2. ^ Council for the Preservation of Remembrance of Struggle and Martyrdom German Historical Institute (DHI) Warsaw
  3. ↑ Andrzej Przewoźnik: zaawansowane prac nad upamiętnieniem Ofiar zbrodni katyńskiej. In: Zeszyty Katyńskie . 5 (1995), pp. 98-104.
  4. ↑ Damian Spielvogel: Graves call for peace. In: Schlesische Nachrichten. 19/2002, p. 5.
  5. ↑ Each monument should be advised individually. In: German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe. February 3, 2003.
  6. ↑ IPN lustruje: bójcie się, wójcie wyborcza.pl March 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Stefan Troebst : Resuscitation of a »stillborn«? The European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity. In: Poland analyzes. 33 (2008), p. 5.
  8. ↑ Powązki: krótka ceremonia ku czci ofiar katastrofy smoleńskiej w strugach deszczu tvp.info , April 10, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Przewoźnik, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurków, Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death near Smolensk , Russia