Wiesław Chrzanowski

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Wiesław Chrzanowski (2010)

Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (born December 20, 1923 in Warsaw ; † April 29, 2012 there ) was a Polish lawyer and Christian-national politician ( Christian-National Association ). From 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal .

Life

Chrzanowski's father of the same name, Wiesław Chrzanowski sen. was Minister of Industry and Trade in 1920. During the Second World War Chrzanowski jun. Member of the secret nationalist party Stronnictwo Narodowe and 1943–1944 deputy chairman of the All-Polish Youth Student Union for the Warsaw region. He attended illegal university courses in law and took part in the Warsaw Uprising . After the war, he studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and received his master's degree in 1945. From 1945 to 1946 he was a member of the Labor Party , after which he founded the Christian Youth Association "Renewal" (Chrześcijański Związek Młodzieży "Odnowa") . 1948–1954 he served a long prison sentence that was imposed on the orders of the Stalinist government because of his political activities . In the thaw period he was rehabilitated in 1956 and from then on worked as a legal adviser to the Warsaw housing associations. At the same time he also advised the Primate Poloniae Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński .

Chrzanowski received his doctorate in 1975 and completed his habilitation in 1979. Despite his qualification as a judge in 1960, as an opponent of the system, he was denied admission to the legal profession until 1981. Since 1980 he has been a member and legal advisor of the Solidarność trade union . Since 1982 he has been a lecturer and since 1987 professor at the Catholic University of Lublin .

Wiesław Chrzanowski was a co-founder and from 1989 to 1994 first party chairman of the Christian National Association (Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe, ZChN) . Between January and December 1991 he was Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the Bielecki cabinet and from December 1991 to October 1993 he was Sejm Marshal in the lower house of the Polish Parliament . From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland . In 1990 he received the Commander's Cross from Exile President Ryszard Kaczorowski and in 1993 the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta from President Lech Wałęsa . In 2005 he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle .

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SURNAME Chrzanowski, Wiesław
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chrzanowski, Wiesław Marian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish lawyer and Christian national politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2012
Place of death Warsaw