Ministry of Defense (Poland)

Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej - MON -
State level	Country
Position of the authority	Ministry
Consist	1807/1918/1945
Headquarters	ul.Klonowa 1, Warsaw
Authority management	Mariusz Błaszczak
Website	www.mon.gov.pl

The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej , literally Ministry of National Defense ) is part of the Polish executive branch and the Ministry of the Central European State responsible for defense and the Polish armed forces . Analogous to the German Federal Ministry of Defense , the ministry defines the defense policy guidelines of the country. The current head of the agency as Minister of Defense has been Mariusz Błaszczak since 2018 .

tasks

The main tasks of the Polish Ministry of Defense include:

• ensuring operational readiness and the further development of the armed forces,
• the administration of the armed forces in peacetime,
• the implementation of the political guidelines given by the Polish Council of Ministers ,
• the fulfillment of the tasks and obligations of the Polish armed forces in international operations and alliances, etc. a. in exercises.

In peacetime, the defense minister exercises supreme command over the armed forces on behalf of the president ; he is also the highest disciplinary superior for all soldiers.

structure

The Defense Minister leads the Polish armed forces and is represented by a State Secretary. The highest military member of the management group is the chief of the Polish general staff , currently Leszek Surawski , and the management level also includes two sub-state secretaries, the chief general of the Ministry of Defense, the minister’s office, an operations center and a press spokesman.

The departments responsible for administration are under this management level for

• Public relations ,
• Review of the armed forces,
• legal matters,
• financial / budget issues,
• Infrastructure ,
• Procurement,
• International security policy ,
• Cooperation with foreign armed forces,
• soldiers' social affairs,
• Administration,
• Human Resource,
• as well as strategy and planning.

Defense Minister

#	image	Name ( party )	Taking office	Resignation	Term of office	government
1.		Florian Siwicki ( PZPR )	Sept. 12, 1989	July 6, 1990	297 days	Mazowiecki cabinet
2.		Piotr Kołodziejczyk	July 6, 1990	23 Dec 1991	535 days
						Bielecki cabinet
3.		Jan Parys	23 Dec 1991	May 23, 1992	152 days	Cabinet Olszewski
4th		Janusz Onyszkiewicz ( UD )	July 11, 1992	Oct 25, 1993	471 days	Suchocka cabinet
(2.)		Piotr Kołodziejczyk	Oct 26, 1993	Nov 10, 1994	380 days	Pawlak cabinet
5.		Zbigniew Okoński	March 7, 1995	Dec 22, 1995	290 days	Oleksy's cabinet
6th		Stanisław Dobrzański ( PSL )	Jan. 5, 1996	Oct 31, 1997	665 days
						Cimoszewicz's cabinet
(4.)		Janusz Onyszkiewicz ( UW )	Oct 31, 1997	June 16, 2000	959 days	Cabinet Buzek
7th		Bronisław Komorowski ( SKL )	June 16, 2000	Oct 19, 2001	490 days
8th.		Jerzy Szmajdziński ( SLD )	Oct 19, 2001	Oct 31, 2005	1473 days	Miller's cabinet
						Cabinet Belka I
						Belka II cabinet
9.		Radosław Sikorski	Oct 31, 2005	Feb. 7, 2007	464 days	Marcinkiewicz cabinet
						Kaczyński's cabinet
10.		Aleksander Szczygło ( PiS )	Feb. 7, 2007	Sept 7, 2007	279 days
			Sept 10, 2007	Nov 16, 2007
11.		Bogdan Klich ( PO )	Nov 16, 2007	Aug 2, 2011	1355 days	Cabinet Tusk I
12.		Tomasz Siemoniak ( PO )	Aug 2, 2011	Nov 16, 2015	1567 days
						Cabinet Tusk II
						Kopacz cabinet
13.		Antoni Macierewicz ( PiS )	Nov 16, 2015	Jan. 9, 2018	785 days	Szydło cabinet
						Cabinet Morawiecki I , Cabinet Morawiecki II
14th		Mariusz Błaszczak ( PiS )	Jan. 9, 2018		966 days

Web links

Commons : Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Poland  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Słownik procedur parlamentarnych , Kancelaria Sejmu, ISBN 83-909381-0-3 , p. 397
2. ↑ Tasks. In: en.mon.gov.pl. Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, accessed on August 12, 2015 . 
3. ^ Structure. In: en.mon.gov.pl. Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, accessed on August 12, 2015 .