Zbigniew Stanisław Zychowicz (April 29, 1953 – January 6, 2016) was a Polish politician and member of the Democratic Left Alliance (SDL). He served as the Voivodeship Marshal of West Pomeranian Voivodeship from 1999 to 2000. He was a deputy to the Senate of Poland for IV and V term.[1]
Zbigniew Zychowicz | |
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| Marshal of West Pomeranian Voivodeship | |
| In office 1 January 1999 – 26 January 2000 | |
| Preceded by | office created |
| Succeeded by | Józef Faliński |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 April 1953 Miastko |
| Political party | Democratic Left Alliance |
| Alma mater | Agricultural University in Szczecin |
| Awards |   |
Biography edit
He was born in 1953 in Miastko to a working-class family.[2] In 1978 he graduated from agricultural economics at the Agricultural University in Szczecin.[2] He has also completed postgraduate studies of rural sociology and agriculture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.[2] He completed research internships in Heidelberg and at the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Warsaw.[2] Since 1978 he was working for Agricultural University in Szczecin.[2] In 1982 he obtained a PhD at the University of Silesia.[2]
In the years 1994-1998 he chaired the Self-Government Assembly of the Szczecin Province.[2] He was a co-founder and the first president of the Euregion Pomerania.[3] From 1995 to 1998, he worked as the editor-in-chief of Przegląd Samorządowy.[2] In 1998 he was elected the first marshal of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship and he was until 2000.[2] From 1 July to 31 December 1999 he was the chairman of the Convent of Marshals of the Voivodeships of the Republic of Poland.[2][4] In the years 1999-2000 he was the co-chairman of the Polish-German Committee for Cross-Border Cooperation, and until January 2000 – co-chairman of the Government-Self-Government Team for Regional Policy, Spatial Development and Environmental Protection.[2]
From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.[2] In March 2000, he became an advisor for local government affairs to the President of the Republic of Poland, he held this position until assuming the mandate of a senator.[2]
He belonged to the Polish United Workers' Party and was a member of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. He was a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, and a member of the Provincial Board of that party.[2]
In the Senate, he worked in the following committees: Local Government and State Administration, Foreign Affairs and European Integration and in the Extraordinary Committee of European Legislation.[2]
Zychowicz died in a hospital in Szczecin on January 6, 2016, at the age of 62.[5][6][7]
Honours and decorations edit
National honours edit
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Gold Badge of Honor of the West Pomeranian Griffin | 5 May 2003[8] |
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Badge of Honor for Merits to the Local Government | 18 September 2015[9] |
References edit
- ^ Zbigniew Zychowicz (in Polish), retrieved 2021-01-10
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Zbigniew Stanisław Zychowicz". ww2.senat.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Zmarł dr Zbigniew Zychowicz, jeden z założycieli Euroregionu Pomerania - Pomerania". www.pomerania.org.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Senat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej / Aktualności / Zmarł Zbigniew Zychowicz, senator IV i V kadencji". www.senat.gov.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ Rabikowski, Łukasz (2016-01-06). "Zbigniew Zychowicz nie żyje". Radio Szczecin. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
- ^ "Zmarł Zbigniew Zychowicz". 24kurier.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Wyborcza.pl". szczecin.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Ewidencja Odznaczonych Odznaką Honorową | Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Zachodniopomorskiego". bip.rbip.wzp.pl. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Nie ma wolności bez solidarności, nie ma solidarności bez samorządności - minister Andrzej Halicki w Szczecinie | Ministerstwo Administracji i Cyfryzacji". 2015-09-23. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2021-01-07.