Andrzej Kremer

Andrzej Kremer ( born August 8, 1961 in Krakow, † 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia) was a Polish lawyer, diplomat and deputy foreign minister.

Life

Kremer finished in 1984 to study at the Law and Administration Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He became a Doctor of Law in 1993. In 1986, he was the judge exam. In 1983 he was a research associate at the historical- legal institute, and in 1989 a research assistant at the chair of Roman Law at the University of Bochum. He is the author of scientific articles from the area over the Roman law, diplomatic and consular law and public international law.

Since 1991 he has been connected with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, MSZ ). He was Vice-Consul and Consul in Hamburg, then he was Head of the Consular Section of the Polish Embassy in Bonn ( as the authorized " Prime Consultant" ). From 1998 to 2001 he headed the ministerial department, after which he was Consul General in Hamburg. Since 2005, he again worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( including as Director in the Department of treaties ).

On 10 March 2008, Kremer Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 27 November 2009 he was at the Polish Institute of International Affairs ( Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych ) operates.

On April 10, 2010 Kremer belonged to a Polish delegation headed by President Lech Kaczyński, who was to travel on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn massacre to the memorial to Russia. However, in a plane crash of the delegation near the military airfield Smolensk - North he came together with other high-ranking representatives of Poland died.

Posthumously Kremer was awarded on 16 April 2010 the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).

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