Wiesław_Chrzanowski

Wiesław Chrzanowski

Wiesław Chrzanowski

Polish politician and lawyer (1923–2012)

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 Marshal of the Sejm.[1] He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.[2]

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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 statutes 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.

During the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he endorsed Polska jest Najważniejsza.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Posłowie I kadencji 1991 - 1993 (Delegates of 1st Session, 1991-1993), Sejm of Poland,
  2. [2]
    "Prof. Wiesław Chrzanowski w Kapitule Orła Białego", Gazeta Wyborcza, 2007-05-17, archived from the original on 2012-04-05, retrieved 2010-03-07
  3. [3]
    "Wiesław Chrzanowski poparł PJN" (in Polish). 2011-09-17. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
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