Jan Klawiter

Jan Klawiter (born 10 November 1950) is a Polish politician. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Sejm from the parliamentary constituency of Gdynia . He was also mayor of his hometown of Rumia for ten years.[1]

Jan Klawiter
Klawiter in 2016
Member of the Sejm
Assumed office
2015
ConstituencyGdynia
Mayor of Rumia
In office
1992–2002
Personal details
Born (1950-11-10) 10 November 1950
Rumia, Poland
NationalityPolish
Political partyLaw and Justice
Right Wing of the Republic
Spouse(s)Urszula Wruk
Children3 (2 deceased)

Personal life

Klawiter is of Kashubian descent. In 1973 he graduated from Gdańsk University of Technology and received his PhD when he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1982 on the implementation of liquid chromatographs.[2] In 1977 he married Urszula Wruk. In 1979 the couple had twins, although both died during birth. In 1983 their daughter Małgorzata was born.[2]

Klawiter is a devout Roman Catholic and a member of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.[2][3] In his youth he was the president of the local chapter of Catholic Action.[4]

Political career

Klawiter served as mayor of his home town of Rumia from 1992 to 2002.[2] In 2006 he became a councilor of the Pomeranian Seym from the PiS list, and in 2010 a councilor of the Wejherowo poviat.[3] On 15 December 2012 he was elected the chairman of the board of the Right of the Republic of Poland in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.[5] In 2014 he ran as a candidate from the PiS list for the European Parliament, and later for the regional council. In 2015 he was elected to the Sejm.[3]

Klawiter is heavily against Invitro fertilisation and abortion due to his Catholic faith. While he esposes many views held by the far-right in Poland, other politicians have said that Klawiter is always polite in expressing his views. Nonetheless Dorota Wójcik, president of the Polish chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation expressed discomfort of Klawiter's close connection to the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and their leader Edwin Frederick O'Brien.[3]

gollark: I *do* do stuff like download entire copies of wikipedia and just never deleting unused files, which is probably why.
gollark: The osmarks.tk™ primary server has 1TB of disk space which is somehow half full.
gollark: Have you tried multiplayer lambda calculus?
gollark: Of course it can ”””deal with ideas”, it's a notetaking environment.
gollark: Hmm, the other one is just using plain JS canvas?

References
  1. "Jan Klawiter - Sejm" (in Polish). Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  2. "Jan Klawiter" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 15 June 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  3. Karpiński, Jarosław (8 November 2018). ""Rycerz pana Boga". Ten poseł chce zakazu in vitro – i to nie pierwsza jego bitwa" ["Knight of God". This MP wants an in vitro ban - and this is not his first battle]. natemat.pl. Prawicarp Rzeczypospolitej. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  4. "Jan Klawiter - radny" (in Polish). Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  5. "I Pomorski Zjazd Wojewódzki Prawicy Rzeczypospolitej" (in Polish). Prawicarp Rzeczypospolitej. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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