Kornel Morawiecki
Kornel Morawiecki | |
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Freedom and Solidarity | |
In office 18 May 2016 – 30 September 2019 | |
Chairman of the Freedom Party | |
In office 7 July 1990 – 25 September 1993 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki 3 May 1941 Warsaw, General Government |
Died | 30 September 2019 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 78)
Spouse(s) | Jadwiga Morawiecka (1st marriage) Anna Morawiecka (Not married) |
Children | 5 |
Parent(s) | Michał Morawiecki Jadwiga Szumańska |
Relatives | Mateusz Morawiecki (son) |
Alma mater | University of Wrocław |
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Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki (3 May 1941 – 30 September 2019) was a
Life and career
Morawiecki was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Michał and Jadwiga (née Szumańska). He graduated from the
In 1968 he took part in student strikes and demonstrations.[5] After the repression of the student protests, together with a group of close friends he edited, printed, and distributed pamphlets which denounced the Communist government for their repressions against the protesting students.[6]
Since 1979, he became the editor of the
At the end of May 1982, together with Paweł Falicki, he founded the "Organization of Fighting Solidarity" which was a unique political opposition organization in Poland and the countries of the Soviet Bloc. It was the only group which from the beginning of its existence called for an end to communism in Poland[2] and other Soviet satellites, the establishment of sovereign governments independent from Moscow therein, the breakup of the Soviet Union and separation of the USSR republics into new nation states, and the reunification of Germany within its Potsdam-imposed borders. While eventually all these things did in fact come to pass, at the time this program was seen as quite radical and unrealistic, even in dissident circles.
However, Fighting Solidarity also rejected the use of violence to achieve its aims.
On 9 November 1987, after six years of conspiratorial activity in the underground, he was caught and arrested by the
After the fall of communism in Poland, Morawiecki registered his candidacy for the post of President of Poland in 1990, but in the end was unable to collect the required 100,000 signatures.[8] During his televised election campaign he symbolically turned over a round table, a reference to the Polish Round Table Agreement which, he felt, compromised too much with the communists.[9]
For his activism in support of an independent Poland, the
He was one of the candidates in the
Apart from his work as a politician, he also worked at the Mathematics Institute of the
Personal life
In 1959 he married Jadwiga with whom he has four children including Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland. After his divorce from Jadwiga, he married Anna with whom he had a son.[14][15] He died in 2019 from pancreatic cancer.
See also
- Solidarity movement
- History of Poland (1945–1989)
References
- ^ a b c d Sabrina P. Ramet, "Social currents in Eastern Europe", Duke University Press, 1995, pg. 98 and 190, [1], [2]
- ^ a b c d JPRS Report, East Europe, June 4, 1990, pgs. 18-21
- ^ "Wybory do Sejmu i Senatu". Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
- ^ "Komitet Polityczny PiS desygnował Mateusza Morawieckiego na Premiera". Prawo i Sprawiedliwość. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ Government of the Czech Government, "August 21, 2008: Premier Awarded Commemorative Medals to Ten Dissidents from 1968", 21. 8. 2008, [3]
- ^ (in Polish) Solidarność Walcząca, czyli po niepodległość bez kompromisów Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Magazyn Obywatel nr 5 / 2005 (25)
- ^ a b Artur Adamski, "Czas wielkiej próby" (The Time of Great Trial), Encyclopedia Solidarnosci (Encyclopedia of Solidarity) and Gazeta Polska, June 4, 2008, [4]
- ^ Dominik Gajda, "Poland After the Round Table - The History of the Independent Poland 1989-2007", pg. 4, [5]
- ^ Kornel Morawiecki, "Dlaczego przewróciłem okrągły stolik" (Why did I overturn a round table?), Rzeczpospolita, 05-02-2009, [6] Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Bartłomiej Radziejowski, "Czechów powinna przepraszać Moskwa" (Moscow Should Apologize to the Czechs), Rzeczpospolita, 2008-08-23, accessed at "Kornel Morawiecki dla Rzeczpospolitej - Wolni i Solidarni". Archived from the original on 2009-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ "Výstava 21. 8. - 26. 10. 2008: Za vaši a naši svobodu - Fotogalerie - ICV". icv.vlada.cz.
- ^ "Wybory do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP" (in Polish). Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ "Kornel Morawiecki - english version". old.im.pwr.wroc.pl.
- ^ "Mateusz Morawiecki nowym ministrem rozwoju i wicepremierem w rządzie Beaty Szydło". 9 November 2015.
- ^ INTERIA.PL. "Morawiecki: Ma żonę, żyje z partnerką".