Roman Giertych

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Roman Jacek Giertych (born February 27, 1971 in Śrem ) is a Polish lawyer and politician . From May 5, 2006 to August 13, 2007, he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Education of Poland. Of 11 March 2006 to 22 October 2007, he was chairman of the party of national - clerical party League of Polish Families .

Youth and education

Roman Giertych comes from a national-clerical political dynasty. His grandfather Jędrzej Giertych was a close collaborator of the leader of the nationalist movement Narodowa Demokracja Roman Dmowski during the period between the world wars , his father Maciej Giertych was a co-founder of the National Party ( Stronnictwo Narodowe ) in 1989 and is still in politics as a member of the European Parliament active.

Giertych studied law and history at the University of Poznan .

Political career

At the age of 18, after the collapse of communism in 1989, Giertych reestablished the All-Polish Youth ( Młodzież Wszechpolska ), a right-wing student organization.

In 2001 Giertych was one of the founders of the national-clerical League of Polish Families , for which he entered the Polish Sejm in the same year . Soon after, he became well known across the country as the tenacious vice chairman of the parliamentary committee to clarify the Orlen affair. In 2005 he was re-elected to the Sejm and appointed head of the commission for secret services.

On March 11, 2006, he was elected chairman of his party, and on May 5, 2006, he joined the new coalition government of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz , where he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Popular Education. Students in Poland reacted with large demonstrations against the appointment of Giertych.

Viewpoints

Giertych is known for an uncompromising attitude in all ideological questions and as a sharp critic of Germany and the European Union . He sees the latter as a “centralized, socialist superstate”. In autumn 2006, Giertych called for the application of the five percent hurdle to the parties of the German minority in the Polish parliamentary elections and thus their de facto expulsion from the Sejm.

Giertych takes a homophobic attitude and is in favor of an absolute ban on abortion. He used the term "sick" in relation to homosexuals and even spoke of "re-education camps" in this context. On March 1, 2007 he said at the informal EU Education Council in Heidelberg : "Homosexual propaganda is reaching younger and younger children", that eleven-year-olds are already used to homosexuality and abortion: "This crime, legalized by several parliaments, is a new form of barbarism. " Furthermore, "A nation that kills its own children is a nation with no future. A continent of people who murder their own children will be replaced by those who do not kill them."

At the beginning of June 2006, he dismissed the head of the teacher training center, Mirosław Sielatycki, as he was responsible for the publication of a Council of Europe manual called Kompas , which deals with human rights education and, among other things, dealing with sexual minorities. A German version of this handbook is also used in Germany under the title "Compass. Handbook on human rights education for school and extracurricular educational work". Sielatycki's dismissal provoked national and international protests.

Giertych called the participants of the CSD in Warsaw, among them several members of the Bundestag from Berlin and members from other EU countries, as pederasts .

Like his father Maciej, Giertych is a supporter of creationism , and his LPR party demands that it be integrated into the curricula of Polish schools.

2007 elections

On August 13, 2007, Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński announced new parliamentary elections for autumn 2007 and at the same time announced the coalition agreement to govern with a minority government made up exclusively of PiS ministers until the elections. Roman Giertych lost his ministerial post.

The parliamentary elections took place on October 21, 2007 and resulted in a clear victory for the opposition. The LPR, which entered into an electoral alliance with two conservative small parties , only received 1.5% of the votes and failed very clearly at the 5% hurdle.

The day after the election defeat, Roman Giertych announced that he would resign as chairman of the LPR and devote himself to his legal work.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ An end to the rigid toleration. In: Spiegel Online. June 14, 2006, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ http://focus.msn.de/politik/ausland/polen_nid_35178.html
  3. ↑ Party under a burning swastika. In: Spiegel Online. December 6, 2006, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Schwulenhatz and Kulturkampf - scandal about Polish politician family. In: Spiegel Online. March 1, 2007, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  5. ↑ queer: Giertych: CSD participants = pederasts
  6. ↑ Giertych vs. Darwin heise online , October 30, 2006
  7. ^ Poland: Giertych dismissed - report from August 14, 2007 on queer.de
personal data
SURNAME Giertych, novel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giertych, Roman Jacek (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer and politician, member of the Sejm
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Śrem