Leszek Deptuła

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Leszek Roman Deptuła (born February 25, 1953 in Żagań in the Lubusz Voivodeship , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician, veterinarian and member of the VI. Election term in the Polish Parliament, the Sejm .

Life

In 1978 Deptuła graduated from the veterinary faculty of the "Agricultural Academy" in Lublin ( Akademia Rolnicza w Lublinie ), which is now called the "Natural Science University" in Lublin ( Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Lublinie ). From 1978 to 2002 he worked in a veterinary clinic in the village of Wadowice Dolne in the Powiat Mielecki in the Subcarpathian Mountains . From 2002 to 2006 Deptuła exercised the function of Voivodeship Marshal of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. He then had a seat in the regional parliament there, the Voivodeship Sejmik, until 2007 . He was also deputy chairman of the local council in the rural municipality of Wadowice Górne.

In the Polish parliamentary elections in 2007 he won a mandate as a member of the Polish Peasant Party ( Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe , PSL ), where he received 6,688 votes in the constituency of Rzeszów . In 2009 he ran unsuccessfully in the European elections in Poland .

For several years Deptuła was first in the professional representation as a member of the Malopolska self-government and then in the veterinary medical chamber. He had a seat in the "Veterinary Regional Court" ( Krajowy Sąd Lekarsko-Weterynaryjny ) in Warsaw .

On April 10, 2010, Deptuła 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 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.

Deptuła was married and had two children. Posthumously on April 16, 2010 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Deptuła, Leszek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deptuła, Leszek Roman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Żagań
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2010
Place of death Smolensk , Russia