Kornel Morawiecki

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Kornel Morawiecki (2010)

Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki (born May 3, 1941 in Warsaw ; † September 30, 2019 there ) was a Polish politician , physicist , university professor and Sejm MP and his senior marshal for the 8th legislative period . During the People's Republic of Poland , he was an anti-communist dissident and in 1982 he founded Solidarność Walcząca (Fighting Solidarity).

Life

Career

Kornel Morawiecki graduated in 1958 at the Adam Mickiewicz High School in Warsaw, the Matura . In 1966 he finished studying physics at the University of Breslau and received his doctorate in 1970 on quantum field theory . Formerly a scientist at the Faculties of Physics and Mathematics, he was employed from 1973 to 2009 at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Wroclaw .

Resistance to the communist regime

He took part in student protests in 1968 and, by distributing leaflets, turned against the suppression of the March riots and against the military intervention during the Prague Spring . He was involved in the 1970 December uprising . In 1979 he joined the samizdat Biuletyn Dolnośląski ( German "Lower Silesian Bulletin").

Morawiecki was one of the organizers of the August 1980 strike in Breslau . In September he acted in the regional Solidarność structures . After martial law was declared in Poland on December 13, 1981, he founded and led Solidarność Walcząca (Fighting Solidarity) from 1982 .

The Fighting Solidarność did not accept any reforms of the system, but fought for its fundamental abolition, so in 1989 it did not take part in the round table talks with the communist leaders of Poland. “To die for freedom” was an essential part of the oath to be taken for the members of the Fighting Solidarność.

With the Soviet oppositionist Mikołaj Iwanow and supporters of Biuletyn Dolnośląski , Kornel Morawiecki made an appeal to the Soviet army troops stationed in Poland , which led to his imprisonment. Kornel Morawiecki was released after threatening a strike.

After his arrest by the SB Security Service in November 1987, he was sent to Mokotów Prison . On the initiative of Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej , a committee for the release of Kornel Morawiecki was founded in the USA . On the advice of Jan Olszewski , he left Poland on April 30, 1988. Three days later, his return failed with an expulsion to Vienna. Finally he returned in late August 1988.

Career after overcoming the communist system of rule

In 1990, the candidacy for the first presidential election failed due to insufficient support signatures . His running for parliamentary elections in 1991 was unsuccessful for him.

As an opponent of the agreements reached at the “ round table ” on the occasion of the system transformation in Poland, he symbolically overturned a round table on public television.

In the 2015 parliamentary election , he won a seat for the Kukiz movement , but left the parliamentary group on April 14, 2016 after Małgorzata Zwiercan was expelled . Contrary to a cross-opposition agreement, she voted for a candidate for the constitutional court and also voted twice on behalf of Kornel Morawiecki.

Morawiecki founded the group of representatives Wolni i Solidarni and also chaired it.

In January 2019, Morawiecki announced that he had pancreatic cancer and had to undergo an operation. In late summer 2019, there was a progression of the disease, yet Morawiecki wanted in the scheduled for October 13 election for a seat in the Senate to apply for the PiS. He died on September 30, 2019 in the Warsaw Government Hospital. For Morawiecki one was state funeral arranged: after lying in state in the Sejm -building he was on 5 October 2019 the Warsaw Powazki cemetery buried.

family

Kornel Morawiecki was the father of Mateusz Morawiecki .

Awards

Morawiecki's commitment to the freedom and independence of Poland was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta (Officer) by the President of the Polish Government-in-Exile in 1988 .

On the 25th anniversary of Solidarność Walcząca in 2007, according to media reports, he renounced the Order of Polonia Restituta (Grand Cross) . In his opinion, the organization deserves the highest distinction that can be awarded in Poland, the Order of the White Eagle . On September 27, 2019, he was finally personally awarded the Order of the White Eagle.

In March 2019, Morawiecki received the Commander's Cross with Star of the Hungarian Order of Merit .

In 2016 the news magazine Wprost awarded him the Kisiel Prize.

literature

  • Gregor Feindt : In search of political community. Oppositional thinking to the nation in East Central European Samizdat 1976–1992 . Walter de Gruyter, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Kornel Morawiecki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kornel Morawiecki nie żyje. In: gazeta.pl ; accessed on September 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ Kornel Morawiecki. (No longer available online.) In: nauka-polska.pl. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016 ; Retrieved on May 26, 2016 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nauka-polska.pl
  3. ↑ Norbert Wójtowicz, Kornel Morawiecki , “Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej” nr 5–6 / 2009, pp. 126–127.
  4. ↑ Cf. Fighting Solidarity .
  5. ↑ Bilet w jedna stronę. In: Newsweek. Retrieved May 26, 2016 (Polish).
  6. ↑ Norbert Wójtowicz, Kornel Morawiecki , “Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej” nr 5-6 / 2009, p. 135.
  7. ↑ Morawiecki: Dlaczego przewróciłem okrągły stolik. In: Rzeczpospolita . February 6, 2009, archived from the original on September 11, 2012 ; Retrieved on May 26, 2016 (Polish).
  8. ↑ Oto nazwiska posłów z Wrocławia i Dolnego Śląska. Wygrywa PiS. In: gazetawroclawska.pl. October 25, 2015, accessed May 26, 2016 (Polish).
  9. ↑ Nowe koło poselskie w Sejmie. W nim m.in. Morawiecki. In: TVN24 . May 18, 2016, Retrieved February 4, 2017 (Polish).
  10. ↑ szczere Wyznanie Kornela Morawieckiego: Mam raka trzustki. In: tvp.info , January 29, 2019; Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Polish).
  11. ↑ Kamil Szewczyk: Poruszony Morawiecki zdradza prawdę o Zdrowiu swojego ojca. In: Super Express , 23 August 2019; accessed on October 5, 2019 (Polish)
  12. ↑ Kornel Morawiecki spoczął na Powązkach. In: gazeta.pl , October 5, 2019; Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Polish).
  13. ↑ Dziennik Ustaw RP No. 3 z 27 czerwca 1988 r.
  14. ↑ Norbert Wójtowicz, Kornel Morawiecki , “Biuletyn Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej” nr 5-6 / 2009, p. 136.
  15. ^ Order Orła Białego dla marszałka seniora Kornela Morawieckiego. In: tvp.info , September 27, 2019; Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Polish).
  16. ↑ Orbán Viktor kitüntette a szejm korelnökét . In: magiarhirlap.hu, March 10, 2019; Retrieved October 5, 2019 (Hungarian).
  17. ↑ Nagrody Kisiela dla Kornela Morawieckiego i Mariusza Maxa Kolonko. (No longer available online.) In: Rzeczpospolita . March 22, 2016, archived from the original on May 26, 2016 ; Retrieved on May 26, 2016 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp.pl
personal data
SURNAME Morawiecki, Kornel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morawiecki, Kornel Andrzej (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2019
Place of death Warsaw