President Lech Walesa Succeeded by Jozef Oleksy Name Wieslaw Chrzanowski Education Jagiellonian University Siblings Zdzislaw Chrzanowski | Preceded by Mikolaj Kozakiewicz Profession Lawyer Parents Wieslaw Chrzanowski Party Christian National Union | |
Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Jan Olszewski
Waldemar Pawlak
Hanna Suchocka Full Name Wieslaw Marian Chrzanowski Born 20 December 1923
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic ( 1923-12-20 ) Political party Christian National Union Role Former Marshal of the Sejm Died April 29, 2012, Warsaw, Poland Previous office Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993) |
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Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski ([ˈvʲɛswaf xʂaˈnɔfskʲi], 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Sejm Marshal. He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.
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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. He finished a law degree at a secret underground university in 1945. During the second half of the 1970s he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statues establishing the Solidarity trade union and later was the lawyer which guided the legal registration process of the organization. In 1989 he founded the Christian National Union (ZChN), party he chaired to 1994.