Antoni Pietkiewicz
Antoni Pietkiewicz | |
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Deputy marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik | |
In office 2002–2003 | |
Voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship | |
In office 1 January 1999 – 21 October 2001 | |
Preceded by | office established |
Succeeded by | Leszek Mizieliński |
Voivode of the Kalisz Voivodeship | |
In office 1990–1991 | |
Preceded by | Marian Jóźwiak |
Succeeded by | Mariusz Kubiak |
Personal details | |
Born | Kalisz, Poland | 24 December 1948
Political party | Solidarity Electoral Action (until 2001) |
Spouse | Małgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz (died 2013) |
Occupation |
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Antoni Kazimierz Pietkiewicz (born 24 December 1948) is an engineer, businessperson and politician. He was a voivode of the Kalisz Voivodeship, Poland from 1990 to 1991, and the Masovian Voivodeship from 1999 to 2001.
Biography
[edit]Antoni Pietkiewicz was born on 24 December 1948 in Kalisz, Poland. His parents were Feliks and Janina Pietkiewicz, and has a younger brother Jerzy. In 1978, he had granted from the Faculty of the Power Engineering of the Łódź University of Technology, and had done postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.[1]
In the 1970s he was an activist in the Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights and the Workers' Defence Committee. From 1979 to 1980 he co-published newsletter Wolne Słowo (The Free Word), and in 1980 he became a member of the Solidarity trade union. He led in the creation of its divisiin in Kalish, and was a board member of its South Greater Poland Region. He was a delegate at the first National Congress of Delegates of the Solidarity in Gdańsk.[1] He was arrested together with his brother Jerzy while Poland was under the martial law, and placed in the internment on 13 December 1981, and released on 23 December 1982. He was again arrested in July 1984, and released following the amnesty from 21 July 1984.[1][2][3]
From 1990 to 1991 he was a voivode of the Kalisz Voivodeship, from 1991 to 1992, he was a deputy director of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, and from 1992 to 1995, he was a deputy chairperson of the Supreme Audit Office. From 1 January 1999 to 21 October 2001, he was the voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship. From 2002 to 2003, he was a deputy marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik.[1]
From 2001 to 2003 he was a board director of Bioenergia ESP in Gdynia; from 2003 to 2006 a deputy chairperson of Prestige Development in Warsaw; from 2005 to 2006 the main investment specialist at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw; from 2006 to 2007 a deputy chairperson and from 2008 to 2011 a chairperson of BOT Górnictwo i Energetyka in Łódź. From 2016, he is a chairperson of the Fabryka Kotłów Sefako in Sędziszów.[1]
Private life
[edit]He was married to journalist and political activist Małgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz (1945–2013).[4]
Awards and decorations
[edit]- Commandor of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000)[5]
- Commandor of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2006)[6]
- Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (2016)[7]
- Meritorious Activist of Culture Badge (2001)[1]
- Honorary Citizenship of Kalisz (2009)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Grażyna Schlender. "Encyklopedia Solidarności. Pietkiewicz Antoni". encysol.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Wykaz alfabetyczny osób internowanych w okresie stanu wojennego". polskiemiesiace.ipn.gov.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Stan wojenny: Wielkopolska lista internowanych. Zobacz!". gloswielkopolski.pl (in Polish). 15 December 2011.
- ^ "Małgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz". nekrologi.wyborcza.pl (in Polish). 3 June 2013.
- ^ "Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". quirinale.it (in Polish). 14 March 2000.
- ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 28 sierpnia 2006 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 22 stycznia 2016 r. o nadaniu odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Honory dla kaliszan". kalisz.pl (in Polish). 6 June 2009.
- 1948 births
- 20th-century Polish politicians
- 21st-century Polish politicians
- Polish civil servants
- People from Kalisz
- People from Warsaw
- Politicians from Warsaw
- Polish government officials
- Łódź University of Technology alumni
- Warsaw University of Technology alumni
- SGH Warsaw School of Economics alumni
- Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists
- Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of Cross of Freedom and Solidarity
- Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Solidarity Electoral Action politicians
- 20th-century Polish businesspeople
- 21st-century Polish businesspeople
- Polish political prisoners
- Living people
- Politicians from Kalisz
- Polish activists
- Members of the Workers' Defence Committee
- Polish human rights activists
- Polish democracy activists
- 20th-century Polish engineers
- 21st-century Polish engineers
- Engineers from Warsaw
- Businesspeople from Warsaw
- Polish business executives
- Polish corporate directors
- Voivodes of Poland