Jerzy Szmajdziński
Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński (born April 9, 1952 in Wroclaw ; † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician, a member of the Sejm from 1985 to 1989 and again continuously since 1991 in the I., II., III., IV., V. and VI . Electoral term. He was Polish Minister of Defense from October 19, 2001 to October 31, 2005, and Deputy Marshal of the Sejm from November 6, 2007 .
Life
He closed one in 1975, studied economics at the Academy of Economics Wroclaw from. In 1973 he became a member of the Polish United Workers' Party ( PVAP ). From 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the Central Committee there . From 1984 on, he was specifically responsible for youth in the party. In 1989 he became chairman of the Central Committee.
After the dissolution of the PVAP in 1989, Szmajdziński became a member of the Socjaldemokracja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej party ( SdRP - Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland ) and in 1991 won a seat in the Sejm . Since 1999 he was a member of the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej ( SLD - Federation of the Democratic Left ). On October 19, 2001 he was appointed Secretary of Defense by Leszek Miller . In April 2004 he was appointed Minister of the Interior and Administration for two weeks, as Józef Oleksy, who had been responsible for this department up to that point, was elected Marshal of the Sejm . He kept his post as Defense Minister in both Marek Belka's governments . After the defeat of the SLD in the parliamentary elections on September 25, 2005 , Szmajdzinski had to give up his ministerial post. Jerzy Szmajdziński was also a member of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz's election committee for the 2005 presidential elections .
In the parliamentary elections of 2007 he was re-elected from the list of the electoral alliance of the Left and Democrats (Lewica i Demokraci, LiD) in the Legnica electoral district in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship with 42,724 votes to the Sejm and was deputy marshal of the Sejm since November 6, 2007 .
On April 22, 2008 Szmajdziński became a member of the newly formed Lewica faction . From June 1st, 2008 until his death he was deputy chairman of the SLD . In December 2009 he was named SLD's presidential candidate for the 2010 Polish presidential elections.
On April 10, 2010, Szmajdziński 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 70th 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 Szmajdziński was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) on April 16, 2010 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
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Leszek Miller | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Waldemar Dąbrowski (from 2002) | Jerzy Hausner | Zbigniew Kaniewski (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Grzegorz Kurczuk (from 2002) | Krystyna Łybacka | Lech Nikolski (from 2003) | Wojciech Olejniczak (from 2003) | Marek Pol | Andrzej Raczko (from 2003) | Leszek Sikorski (from 2003) | Czesław Śleziak (from 2003) | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Marek Balicki (2003) |
Marek Belka (2001-2002) |
Andrzej Celiński (2001–2002) |
Sławomir Cytrycki (2003) |
Piotr Czyżewski (2003-2004) |
Danuta Huebner (2003-2004) |
Krzysztof Janik (2001-2004) |
Wiesław Kaczmarek (2001–2003) |
Jarosław Kalinowski (2001–2003) |
Grzegorz Kołodko (2002–2003) |
Mariusz Łapiński (2001–2003) |
Józef Oleksy (2004) |
Jacek Piechota (2001-2003) |
Barbara Piwnik (2001-2002) |
Adam Tański (2003) |
Stanisław Żelichowski (2001-2003)
Marek Belka | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Jerzy Hausner | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Michał Kleiber | Wojciech Olejniczak | Krzysztof Opawski | Krzysztof Pater | Andrzej Raczko | Wojciech Rudnicki | Marek Sadowski | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Swatoń | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Marek Belka | Marek Balicki (from 2004) | Sławomir Cytrycki | Waldemar Dąbrowski | Mirosław Gronicki (from 2004) | Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka | Ryszard Kalisz | Andrzej Kalwas (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Krzysztof Opawski | Jacek Piechota (from 2005) | Józef Pilarczyk (from 2005) | Tomasz Podgajniak (from 2005) | Adam Daniel Rotfeld (from 2005) | Mirosław Sawicki | Jacek Socha | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (2004–2005) |
Marian Czakański (2004–2005) |
Jerzy Hausner (2004–2005) |
Wojciech Olejniczak (2004–2005) |
Krzysztof Pater (2004) |
Andrzej Raczko (2004) |
Marek Sadowski (2004) |
Jerzy Swatoń (2004-2005)
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| SURNAME | Szmajdziński, Jerzy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szmajdziński, Jerzy Andrzej (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm, Minister of Defense (2001-2005) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 2010 |
| Place of death | Smolensk , Russia |