Zbigniew Aquarius

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Zbigniew Aquarius

Zbigniew Franciszek Wassermann (born September 17, 1949 in Krakow , † April 10, 2010 in Smolensk , Russia ) was a Polish politician , lawyer and public prosecutor . From 2005 to 2007 he was secret service minister in the government under Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and then in the government under Jarosław Kaczyński . He was a member of the IV., V. and VI. Sejm . He has had a seat in the Sejm since 2001.

In 1972 he finished his law studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow . He then worked as a public prosecutor in Chrzanów , then in Jaworzno , then in Brzesko and finally in his hometown Krakow. In 2001 he was elected to the IV Sejm from the list of the Polish Law and Justice party.

On April 10, 2010 Wassermann 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 . However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the Smolensk-Nord military airfield , he was killed along with other high-ranking representatives of Poland.

Posthumously Wassermann was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) on April 16, 2010 .

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  1. Biuro Prasowe Kancelarii Sejmu (Press Office of the Sejm): Komunikat No. 163 / VI kad. , accessed April 18, 2010