Jan Parys

Jan Stanisław Parys (* 1950 ) is a Polish politician, sociologist, publicist, former Minister of Defense in the government of Jan Olszewski and former Vice-Chairman of the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation .

Career

He studied philosophy at Warsaw University . In 1973 he finished studying sociology at the same university and was awarded a doctorate in the humanities in the field of sociology. He dealt with the countries of the Third World and edited the book “Between Logic and Belief” with the Dominican Father Joseph Maria Bocheński , which is based on discussions held in Friborg (Switzerland) in 1986. In 1989 he took up work in the Central Planning Office ( Centralny Urzad Planowania ) as director of the office of the chief executive. There he was later promoted to general director, where he was responsible for the policy of the defense industry.

Defense Minister

In December 1991, on the recommendation of the Porozumienie Centrum party, he was appointed Minister of Defense in Jan Olszewski's government. He was responsible for bringing Poland closer to the NATO structures as well as for the fastest possible withdrawal of Russian armed forces from Poland and for the verification of cadres of the Polish army regarding their support for NATO integration. He came into conflict with President Lech Wałęsa , who wanted to keep control of the armed forces personally. One of Parys' first personnel decisions as Minister of Defense was the leave of absence of his predecessor, Piotr Kołodziejczyk , which he had not consulted with the President. Wałęsa wanted Kołodziejczyk to be the General Inspector of the Armed Forces (this post was ultimately never created). On April 6, 1992, at a meeting with officers of the General Staff , Parys read a statement in which he spoke about meetings of army officers with politicians that had not been consulted with him. The officers were reportedly promised high positions for supporting political activities. With his words, Parys attacked the president and the ministers of the presidential chancellery Mieczysław Wachowski and Jerzy Milewski . The Sejm then set up a commission of inquiry, which was led by Aleksander Bentkowski (PSL) and presented Parys' allegations as unfounded. On May 23, 1992, Minister Parys was recalled.

"Movement of the III. Republic"

Also in May 1992 the Committee for the Defense of Parys ( Komitet Obrony Parysa ) was formed, which then became part of the “Movement of III. Republic ”( Ruch Trzeciej Rzeczypospolitej , RTR) and was led by Parys. In 1995, the RTR joined the Ruch Odbudowy Polski party founded by Jan Olszewski , which joined the Solidarity ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność ) electoral campaign in 1997 shortly before the parliamentary elections . Parys ran unsuccessfully on the ROP's list. In 1998 he became an AWS member of the Sejmik of the Masovian Voivodeship .

German-Polish Foundation

From 1999 to 2003 he was vice-chairman of the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation, which he had to leave because he had granted himself a bonus of 130,000 zlotys with foundation funds. The former foundation management (this also included the chairman from 1998 to 2000 Jacek Turczyński and the board members Jan Parys, Jacek Pająk and Andrzej Tłomacki) had made use of bonuses totaling 400,000 złoty. A court sentenced Parys to repay the premium in 2007. In November 2008, Parys, Pająk and Turczyński were sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment on probation and fined 4,000 to 10,000 zlotys. They appealed against it.

Office manager in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In 2016, Parys was critical of the Lithuanian government and questioned NATO's duty of assistance for this country.

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1. ↑ Henryk Jarczyk: Scandal over NATO's duty of assistance for Lithuania . Germany radio. September 22, 2016. Accessed May 17, 2019.

• Jan Parys . Ludzie Wprost. Retrieved April 21, 2013.