Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (Script error: No such module "IPA"., born 18 December 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist and politician,[1] who served as Minister of Defence twice, in the cabinets of Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993) and Jerzy Buzek (1997–2000).[2]
Later in his career, Onyszkiewicz was a Member of the European Parliament.[3]
Early life and education
Onyszkiewicz was born in Lwów (then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine).[4] He graduated in mathematics from Warsaw University. He became a mathematician, and was also known as an alpinist in the 1970s along with his wife Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz.[5] After Alison's death on Annapurna in 1978, Onyszkiewicz gave up altitude climbing and turned to politics.[6][7][8]
Political career
In the 1980s, Onyszkiewicz became the spokesman for the anti-communist Solidarity movement.[1] He became popular among foreign journalists because of his fluent English. After the introduction of martial law in Poland on 13 December 1981, he was arrested and interned.[9] In 1986, he was again detained by the police, preventing him from holding a news conference on behalf of political prisoners that was scheduled to coincide with the start of a conference of intellectuals.[10]
Member of the Polish Parliament
After the fall of communism in 1989, Onyszkiewicz became a member of the Polish Sejm. He served all subsequent terms from May 1989 until 2001. In the spring of 1990, Onyszkiewicz and Bronisław Komorowski became the first civilian vice-ministers of defence in the communist-dominated Ministry of Defence.[9] Later, Onyszkiewicz was Minister of Defence twice, in the cabinets of Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993) and Jerzy Buzek (1997–2000).[2]
Initially, Onyszkiewicz was a member of the Obywatelski Klub Parlamentarny, then the Democratic Union and the Freedom Union. Today, he is a member of the Democratic Party, the continuation of Democratic Union.[4]
In 1999, Onyszkiewicz was awarded the Manfred Wörner Medal by the German Minister of Defence.[1]
Member of the European Parliament
On 13 June 2004, Onyszkiewicz was elected to the European Parliament as a candidate of Democratic Union in the 10th constituency (Lesser Poland+Swietokrzyskie Voivodeships) receiving 50 155 votes (6,37%). On 20 July 2004 he was elected a vice-president of the European Parliament.
Other activities
Onyszkiewicz is Chairman of the ICDT's International Board of Directors.[11]
References
- Onuszkiewicz's page for elections to the European Parliament [1]
See also
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- ↑ a b c Europa Publications, "The International Who's Who 2004", Routledge, 2003, pg. 1258
- ↑ a b Jeffrey Simon, "Poland and NATO: a study in civil-military relations", Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, pg. 19
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- ↑ a b Dziennik Polski, "Ankieta Eurokandyta – Janusz Onyszkiewicz", 20 May 2009, [2]
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- ↑ a b Krzysztof Ciesielski and Zdzislaw Pogoda, "Janusz Onyszkiewicz", The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 12, Number 4 / December, 1990, [3]
- ↑ 2 Solidarity Activists Detained in Poland New York Times, 17 January 1986.
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