Wiesław Chrzanowski
Wiesław Chrzanowski | |
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Marshal of the Sejm 1st Marshal of the Sejm of The Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 24 November 1991 – 14 October 1993 |
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President | Lech Wałęsa |
Prime Minister | Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Jan Olszewski Waldemar Pawlak Hanna Suchocka |
Preceded by | Mikołaj Kozakiewicz |
Succeeded by | Józef Oleksy |
Personal details | |
Born | Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski 20 December 1923 Warsaw, Second Polish Republic |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. |
Political party | Christian National Union |
Profession | Lawyer |
Religion | Christianity (Roman Catholic Church) |
Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvʲɛswaf xʂaˈnɔfskʲi], 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal.[1] He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.[2]
Chrzanowski was born and died in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II he was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the Home Army.[2] He finished a law degree at a secret underground university in 1945.[2] During the second half of the 1970s he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland.[2] He helped to draft the statues establishing the Solidarity trade union and later was the lawyer which guided the legal registration process of the organization.[2] In 1989 he founded the Christian National Union (ZChN), party he chaired to 1994.
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