Stanisław Tymiński

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Stanisław "Stan" Tymiński (born January 27, 1948 in Pruszków , Poland) is a Polish - Canadian businessman who trades in electronics and computers, and a former politician .

Life

Tymiński grew up in the village of Komorów near Warsaw. He trained as an electronics technician at the state "Kasprzak Radio Companies" ( Zakłady Radiowe im. Marcina Kasprzaka ) in Warsaw . He passed the entrance exam to the Warsaw University of Technology

In 1969, at the age of 21, Tymiński emigrated to Sweden. He married a Finnish citizen there, with her he has a son. In 1970 he moved to Canada , where he became involved in the computer industry. There he founded the Transduction company in 1975. After a decade of hard work and a divorce from his wife, he was feeling, as he himself described it, a burnout .

He went to Peru in 1981 and settled in the city of Iquitos in the Amazon region. He built local financial firms there and founded a cable television station. He also married a Peruvian woman there, and the couple had two children.

He returned to Canada in the late 1980s. In 1990 he moved to Warsaw without giving up his residence or business in Canada. In Warsaw, his newly founded company “Maloka” in 1994 offered the first “Internet for everyone” in Poland; his mailbox system was based on the Linux program . The business press calls him "Father of the Polish Internet". In 1996 the company ceased operations and, according to Tymiński, he was deliberately pushed out of the market by the government with administrative pressure.

He then returned to Canada one more time. He divorced his second wife in order to marry a Chinese woman. He adopted their daughter.

Political commitment

In 1990 Tymiński became chairman of the Libertarian Party of Canada , an unsuccessful splinter party that never received more than 0.25% of the vote in elections. Completely a stranger to his compatriots, he ran for the 1990 presidential election in Poland, which only returned to democracy with the political changes of 1989/90 .

In his election campaign he promised to unite “all people of Polish blood”, to make Poland a nuclear power and to implement an economic policy that would allow as many people as possible to become wealthy or even rich. A central element of his campaign was a black briefcase that he always carried with him. According to him, it contained documents that compromised his political opponents. In a book specially written for the election campaign entitled “Holy Dogs” ( Święte psy ), he accused the new political elite that had emerged from Solidarność of being corrupt and betraying the interests of the Polish nation. He sold 300,000 copies.

The government under Tadeusz Mazowiecki , who was also running for the presidential election, had an investigation into whether Tymiński was a provocateur with ties to foreign intelligence services. However, the investigations remained inconclusive. The state television broadcaster Telewizja Polska suggested that Tymiński was beating his wife and therefore later lost a libel case.

Surprisingly, Tymiński came in second place in the first round of elections on November 25, 1990 with 23.1% of the vote, ahead of Prime Minister Mazowiecki (18.1%) and behind workers leader Lech Wałęsa (39.96%). Since no candidate had obtained an absolute majority, a run-off election was required, which took place on December 9, 1990. In the second round of the election, Tymiński Wałęsa lost 25.75%. The turnout in the ballots was 60.6% and 53.4% ​​respectively.

Buoyed by his unexpected success, the hitherto non-party Tymiński decided to start his own party he Partia X called. Tymiński named a state program for job creation and cheap loans to combat growing unemployment as the cornerstones of the program. The media rated the program as nationalist, and anti-Semitic undertones were also pointed out. Tymiński also called for Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz to be brought to the State Court of Justice immediately. In the 1991 Sejm electionsParty X only ran in four constituencies, but won three seats there. Nationwide it came to a share of 0.47% of the vote. Shortly afterwards, Tymiński withdrew from Polish politics.

On March 24, 2005, Tymiński announced his readiness to run again in the 2005 Polish presidential election. On June 3, 2005, Tymiński presented himself in Poland as a candidate for a newly founded “General Polish Citizens' Coalition”. But in the first round of elections on October 9, 2005, with 0.16% of the vote, he was only 11th among the candidates.

In 2010 he presented the continuation of his first book under the title "Holy Dogs 2" ( Święte psy 2 ). In it he stated that the presidential elections of 1990 had been falsified to his disadvantage and that the majority had actually voted for him. The US government , the Vatican , Jewish organizations, the Democratic Union led by Mazowiecki and Gazeta Wyborcza were all involved in the manipulation .

The name Tymiński became “a symbol of the unpredictability of Polish populism” in Poland.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e Stan Tymiński po latach  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , onet.pl, November 26, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / biznes.onet.pl  
  2. ↑ 40 lecie firmy transduction , Wirtualna Polonia, June 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ Stan ciężki, urojony , polityka.pl, July 13, 2006.
  4. ^ "Ojciec" internetu w Polsce. Wiesz o kogo chodzi? , wp.pl, September 11, 2013.
  5. ↑ Stanisław Tymiński o sobie  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information from the private “Followers' Website” ( Strona sympatyków ), whose contact address (prezydent@transduction.com) leads to Tymiński's company in Canada, accessed on March 7, 2016.@1@ 2Vorlage:Toter Link/peternet.slaskdatacenter.pl  
  6. ↑ The man from Mars is back Berliner Zeitung, June 9, 2005.
  7. ^ Stan Tymiński - kim jest największa sensacja wyborów prezydenckich po 1989 roku? , polskatimes, March 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ Christ of the Nations Der Spiegel, May 20, 1991.
  9. ^ Party systems in post-communist societies in Eastern Europe (Eds. Dieter Segert, Richard Stöss, Oskar Niedermayer). Opladen 1997, p. 26.
  10. ^ The political landscape in Poland. An overview. ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Transodra 20 (German-Polish Society Brandenburg), accessed on March 7, 2016. @1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.dpg-brandenburg.de
  11. ^ Jerzy Bajda: Nowe święto Narodu Polskiego ; in: Nasz Dziennik, edition of September 15, 2009 (Polish)
  12. ^ Presidential Election - The Republic of Poland , National Electoral Commission, October 9, 2005.
  13. ↑ Stan - porzucony prezydent , wprost.pl, November 8th of 2010.
  14. ^ Włodzimierz Borodziej: History of Poland in the 20th century. CH Beck, Munich 2010, p. 391.
personal data
SURNAME Tymiński, Stanisław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tymiński, Stan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian businessman of Polish origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pruszków , Poland