Wiesław Chrzanowski

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

Wiesław Chrzanowski
16th Marshal of the Sejm
In office 24 November 1991 – 14 October 1993
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Jan Olszewski Waldemar Pawlak Hanna Suchocka
Deputy	Henryk Bąk (PSL - PL) Andrzej Kern (PC) Jacek Kurczewski (UD) Dariusz Wójcik (KPN) Józef Zych (PSL)
Senior	Aleksander Małachowski (SP)
Preceded by	Mikołaj Kozakiewicz
Succeeded by	Józef Oleksy
Minister of Justice Public Prosecutor General
In office 12 January 1991 – 21 December 1991
President	Lech Wałęsa
Prime Minister	Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Preceded by	Aleksander Bentkowski
Succeeded by	Zbigniew Dyka
Personal details
Born	Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (1923-12-20)20 December 1923 Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Died	29 April 2012(2012-04-29) (aged 88)
Political party	Christian National Union
Profession	Lawyer

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.

References

1. Posłowie I kadencji 1991 - 1993 (Delegates of 1st Session, 1991-1993), Sejm of Poland,
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

External links

• Wiesław Chrzanowski at Find a Grave