Arkadiusz Rybicki

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Arkadiusz Rybicki

Arkadiusz Czesław "Aram" Rybicki (born January 12, 1953 in Gdynia , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician, civil rights activist , state secretary, deputy minister and member of the Sejm in the V. and VI. Electoral term .

Life

Even before Rybicki finished his history studies at the University of Gdansk in 1978 , in the second half of the 1970s he tried to get close to opposition members in the Gdansk coastal area. From 1976 he worked in the Committee for the Defense of Workers (Komitet Obrony Robotników , KOR for short ) , and in 1977 he was one of the founders of the Solidarność Student Committee ( Studencki Komitet Solidarności ) in Gdansk. From 1977 to 1979 Rybicki was active in the anti-communist movement for the defense of human and civil rights ( Ruch Obrony Praw Człowieka i Obywatela , ROPCiO for short ) , where he worked as a printer for the Pomeranian edition of Opinia ("the opinion") worked. From 1978 to 1980 he was employed by the chaplain of the Solidarność movement Hilary Jastak as archivist for the parishes of Gdynia and Danzig. He is the author of larger scientific individual accounts of these communities. From 1979 he worked in the opposition youth organization Ruch Młodej Polski , where he edited the samizdat magazine Bratniak . Rybicki also worked closely with the independent union Wolne Związki Zawodowe Wybrzeża (WZZ) as well as with the Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej party (German: Confederation of Independent Poland , KPN for short ). In the August 1980 strike , he helped protesting workers on the coast. Together with Maciej Grzywaczewski, who later became the director of the first Telewizja Polska (TVP) program, he set up a board with 21 demands from the supra-company strike committee . This event was one of the themes in the Polish film Solidarność, Solidarność ... from 2005. In 2003 this plaque was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List .

After the events of August 1980, Rybicki began to get involved in Solidarność. In 1981 he headed the Solidarność information office. Thereupon he was interned in the time of the state of emergency from 1981 to 1983 in the village of Strzebielinek in the Pomeranian Voivodeship . After his release, Rybicki worked closely with Lech Wałęsa from 1983 to 1988 . From 1984 to 1990 he worked successively in the Gdańsk library of the Polish Science Academy Polska Akademia Nauk (1984–1985), in the editorial department of the Catholic publication Przegląd Katolicki (1985–1986) and in the Świetlik Cooperative in Gdańsk (1986–1990) .

From 1990 to 1991, Rybicki was State Secretary in the Lech Wałęsa Presidential Office . He then ran his own company for two years, after which he was creative director at the Profilm film agency for four years . From 1999 to 2001 Rybicki was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) , among other things responsible for cooperation with foreign countries and European integration . From 2002 to 2005 Rybicki headed the Baltic Sea Center for Culture (Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury) of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department in the Office of the Voivodeship Marshal of the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

From 1998 to 2005 Rybicki had a seat on the Gdansk City Council. In 1991 he co-founded the small conservative party Koalicja Republikańska (Republican Coalition). From 1992 to 1996 he was deputy chairman of the conservative party Partia Konserwatywna , and from 1996 to 2000 he belonged to the conservative people's party Stronnictwo Konserwatywno-Ludowe (SKL) . From 2001 Rybicki was the regional chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) in Gdansk. In the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2005 and in the 2007 elections, he won a mandate for this party for the V and VI. Electoral term.

He is the author of many publications in the fields of history, politics and culture as well as scripts for documentaries.

On April 10, 2010, Arkadiusz Rybicki 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.

Awards

In 1999 Rybicki was awarded the Zasłużony Działacz Kultury Award for Merits in Polish Culture . In 2001 he was awarded the National Order of Merit by French President Jacques Chirac . In 2005 he got the medal for the 25th anniversary of Solidarność. Posthumously Rybicki was the Grand Cross of 16 April 2010 Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Wielki Orderu Rebirth of Poland) awarded.

Web links

Commons : Arkadiusz Rybicki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Rybicki, Arkadiusz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rybicki, Arkadiusz Czesław (full name); Rybicki, Aram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdynia
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Smolensk , Russia