Przemysław Gosiewski

Przemysław Gosiewski

Przemysław Edgar Gosiewski (born May 12, 1964 in Słupsk ; † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician and since 2001 a member of the Sejm in the IV., V. and VI. Term on the list of party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS - Law and Justice) , was minister and deputy prime minister in the government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski and President of the fraction of PiS.

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Activity before 1989

He spent his youth in Darłowo . His father was a history teacher and a member of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) ; his mother is a pediatrician . From 1983 to 1989 he studied at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdansk . He obtained his master's degree in 1997. During his studies he started to work for the opposition and in 1984 he joined the Independent Student Union (Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów, NZS) at the University of Gdansk and took part in the 1988 student strike. At this time he had first contact with Lech Kaczyński and in 1989 he started working with his brother Jarosław Kaczyński .

Third Republic

In 1989 he was hired by Lech Kaczyński, who was then Deputy Chairman of Solidarność , as office manager for contacts with the regional Solidarność associations, a position he held until 1991. He was also involved in organizing the first national Congress of Solidarność after its re-legalization in 1989. Together with the Kaczyński brothers, he founded the Porozumienie Centrum party (“Understanding Center”, PC) . From 1991 to 1999 he was the secretary of the board of directors of the Porozumienie Centrum and from 1992 to 1993 head of the parliamentary office for PC member Adam Glapiński . In the 1990s he became involved in the Spółdzielcze Kasy Oszczędnościowo-Kredytowe (SKOK) , a kind of cooperative bank .

In the presidential elections in 1995 he was the representative of the electoral staff of Lech Kaczyński (who ultimately withdrew prematurely from the election campaign). In the same year he started his activity in the Srebrna company (whose board was Jarosław Kaczyński and employees Adam Lipiński and Wojciech Jasiński ), which published the magazine Nowe Państwo (New State) (he also worked in its editorial department). From 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the Sejmik of the Masovian Voivodeship and from 2000 to 2001 advisor to Lech Kaczyński, who was then Minister of Justice.

Prawo i Sprawiedliwość

Since 2001 he was a member of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party. He organized their structures in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Sejm for the PiS. In his first electoral term (2001 to 2005) he was a member of the defense, justice and human rights commissions, as well as the committee of inquiry into the privatization of the PZU . In the 2005 Sejm elections, he won another mandate in the constituency of Kielce . From November 3, 2005 to July 19, 2006 he was parliamentary group leader of the PiS. In the so-called “ potato affair ” he presented Poland with new potatoes in July 2007 after the publication of the taz article . Villains who want to rule the world. Today: Lech "Katsche" Kaczynski , in which Lech Kaczyński, who has meanwhile been elected president, and his twin brother and then Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński were satirically depicted as politically inexperienced and simple-minded, an official request to the then Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro , in which Gosiews to initiate criminal proceedings against the taz for insulting the president. In the Sejm elections 2007 he was again a member of the electoral district of Kielce, in which he achieved the best individual result with 138,405 votes. Then he was again chairman of the parliamentary group. He was a member of the Sejm Commission for Constitutional Responsibility.

Przemysław Gosiewski was married to Małgorzata Gosiewska , a Sejm member of the PiS during the 5th electoral term. He was married for the second time after the divorce.

Minister and Deputy Prime Minister

From July 14, 2006 to November 16, 2007 he was a Minister without a mandate in the Jarosław Kaczyński's government and at the same time Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers.

From May 8, 2007 to September 7, 2007 and from September 11, 2007 to November 16, 2007, he held the position of Vice Premier. From September 7, 2007 to September 11, 2007 he was State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office.

Włoszczowa-Północ Railway Station

In October 2006, due to Gosiewski's personal influence, the Włoszczowa Północ station north of Włoszczowa (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) on the Warsaw - Krakow line built in the 1970s was extensively adapted for passenger traffic. The adjustment consisted of the construction of the platform and the entire infrastructure at a total cost of PLN 1.228 million. (In the media, amounts of 3 and 3.5 million zł respectively, which also include the track works and works in the vicinity of the station, while Gosiewski himself states that the adjustment cost 900,000 zł.) This construction was one of the scandals of Jarosław Kaczyński's government and was later investigated by the public prosecutor's office.

In January 2007 Gosiewski announced the construction of a technology park in Włoszczowa for a double-digit million amount from EU subsidies .

death

On April 10, 2010 Gosiewski 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 . In a plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military base , however, he was killed along with other high-ranking representatives of Poland. Posthumously on April 16, 2010, he was awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) .

Web links

Commons : Przemysław Gosiewski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography of Przemysław Gosiewski on wprost .pl
• Przemysław Gosiewski's homepage as a member of the Sejm (in Polish)
• Przemysław Gosiewski's private homepage

Footnotes

1. ↑ Stacja we Włoszczowie - doniesienie do prokuratury (Train Station Włoszczowa - the prosecution) - Onet.pl October 27, 2006
2. ↑ Interview with Przemysław Gosiewski - Radio Zet , October 26, 2006 (removed from the archive)
3. ↑ Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010