Succeeded by Jaroslaw Kaczynski Succeeded by Elzbieta Bienkowska Name Grazyna Gesicka Education University of Warsaw Date killed April 10, 2010 | Preceded by Jaroslaw Kaczynski Political party Law and Justice Role Polish Politician Party Law and Justice | |
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Born 13 December 1951
Warsaw, Poland ( 1951 -12-13 ) Died April 10, 2010, Smolensk, Russia Similar People Janina Fetlinska, Leszek Deptula, Mariusz Handzlik, Krzysztof Putra, Kazimierz Gilarski | ||
Grażyna Gęsicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006 - 2007) minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's government. From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus.
She was born in Warsaw. In 1974 she graduated from Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and in 1985 received her doctorate.
She was a former member of the Polish Sociological Society and the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise.
She was a speaker of English and French.
She was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard. On April 25, she was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery Headquarters Military Cemetery in Warsaw.
On 16 April 2010, Gęsicka was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
