Henryk Wujec

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Wujec in 2007

Henryk Wujec (25 December 1940[1] – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.[2]

Wujec was born in

Warsaw University with a degree in Physics and went on to study electron technology as a postgraduate in 1970.[3]

A physicist by profession,[1] Wujec was an activist in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.[4] In 1984, he was imprisoned at Białołęka for his political activities.[1]

Wujec was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Jerzy Buzek in 1999-2000. He acted as an advisor to Bronisław Komorowski when the latter became President of Poland in 2010.[3]

He died at the age of 79 on 15 August 2020 after a long illness. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery and posthumously awarded Poland's highest order, the Order of the White Eagle.[5]

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