Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Adam Daniel Rotfeld ( born March 4, 1938 in Przemyślany near Lviv, now Ukraine) is a Polish scientist and diplomat, former foreign minister.

Life

Rotfeld comes from a Jewish family. His parents were murdered by German Nazis in 1943, he himself lived in a Studite Monastery. In 1951 he moved to Poland, where he studied from 1955 to 1960 at the Warsaw School of Diplomacy and until 1962, graduated postgraduate studies in journalism. From 1961 to 1989 he was a member of the Polish Institute of International Relations in Warsaw. In 1969 he received his doctorate at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for the self-determination of peoples in modern international law. He was appointed by the then Polish president professor at the University of Warsaw in 2001.

After the political changes in Poland, he went as a research project leader at the International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI in Stockholm. He remained there until his entry into the Polish Government as Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June 2002. 2003 he became Secretary of State in the Foreign Office and was from January to November 2005 the successor of Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (SLD ) and Polish Foreign Minister.

Adam Daniel Rotfeld was married to Barbara Sikorska - red plane (died 2006) and is the father of a daughter born in 1971.