Janusz Onyszkiewicz
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Minister of National Defense of Poland 3rd Minister of National Defense of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 11 July 1992 – 26 October 1993 |
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| President | Lech Wałęsa |
| Prime Minister | Hanna Suchocka |
| Preceded by | Romuald Szeremietiew |
| Succeeded by | Piotr Kołodziejczyk |
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Minister of National Defense of Poland 7th Minister of National Defense of the Third Republic of Poland |
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In office 31 October 1997 – 16 June 2000 |
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| President | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
| Prime Minister | Jerzy Buzek |
| Preceded by | Stanisław Dobrzański |
| Succeeded by | Bronisław Komorowski |
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18 December 1937 Lwów, Poland |
| Political party | Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl |
Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjanuʂ ɔnɨʂˈkʲɛvʲitʂ], born 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.
Janusz Onyszkiewicz was born on 18 December 1937 in Lwów (then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine). He graduated in mathematics from Warsaw University. He became a famous mathematician and an alpinist in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he became the spokesman for the anti-communist Solidarity movement. He became popular among foreign journalists because of his fluent English. After the introduction of martial law in Poland on 13 December 1981, he was arrested and interned.
After the fall of communism in 1989, Onyszkiewicz became a member of the Polish Sejm. He served all subsequent terms from May 1989 until 2001. In the spring of 1990, Onyszkiewicz and Bronisław Komorowski became the first civilian vice-ministers of defence in the communist-dominated Ministry of Defence. Later, Onyszkiewicz was Minister of Defence twice, in the cabinets of Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993) and Jerzy Buzek (1997–2000).
Initially, he was a member of the Obywatelski Klub Parlamentarny, then the Democratic Union and the Freedom Union. Today, he is a member of the Democratic Party, the continuation of Democratic Union.
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