Zbigniew Wassermann
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Zbigniew Wassermann [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf vaˈssɛrman] (
listen) (17 September 1949 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. He was an MP representing Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość).
Wassermann was born in Kraków. He was a graduate in law from Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Prawa) and member of Sejm, lower house of Polish parliament, elected in Krakow constituency.
From July 2004, he was a member and the vice-chairman of PKN Orlen investigation commission. From November 2005 to November 2007 he was Minister of Special Forces in the Governments of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
He was listed on the flight manifest[1] of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
On April 16, 2010, Wassermann was decorated posthumously with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and on April 20, 2010 he was buried in a cemetery in Krakow Bielany.
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- 1949 births
- 2010 deaths
- Polish politicians
- Politicians from Kraków
- Law and Justice politicians
- Members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (2001–05)
- Members of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (2005–07)
- Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Victims of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
- Jagiellonian University alumni
