Antoni Pietkiewicz

Antoni Pietkiewicz
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 byoffice established
Succeeded byLeszek Mizieliński
Voivode of the Kalisz Voivodeship
In office
1990–1991
Preceded byMarian Jóźwiak
Succeeded byMariusz Kubiak
Personal details
Born (1948-12-24) 24 December 1948 (age 75)
Kalisz, Poland
Political partySolidarity Electoral Action (until 2001)
SpouseMałgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz (died 2013)
Occupation
  • Engineer
  • Politician
  • Businessperson

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

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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

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He was married to journalist and political activist Małgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz (1945–2013).[4]

Awards and decorations

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Grażyna Schlender. "Encyklopedia Solidarności. Pietkiewicz Antoni". encysol.pl (in Polish).
  2. ^ "Wykaz alfabetyczny osób internowanych w okresie stanu wojennego". polskiemiesiace.ipn.gov.pl (in Polish).
  3. ^ "Stan wojenny: Wielkopolska lista internowanych. Zobacz!". gloswielkopolski.pl (in Polish). 15 December 2011.
  4. ^ "Małgorzata Jedynak-Pietkiewicz". nekrologi.wyborcza.pl (in Polish). 3 June 2013.
  5. ^ "Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". quirinale.it (in Polish). 14 March 2000.
  6. ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 28 sierpnia 2006 r. o nadaniu orderów i odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish).
  7. ^ "Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 22 stycznia 2016 r. o nadaniu odznaczeń". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish).
  8. ^ "Honory dla kaliszan". kalisz.pl (in Polish). 6 June 2009.
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