Arkadiusz Rybicki
Arkadiusz Czeslaw " Aram " Rybicki ( born January 12, 1953 in Gdynia, † 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia) was a Polish politician, civil rights, State Secretary, Deputy Minister and deputy in the Sejm in the V. and VI. Legislature.
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Life
Even before Rybicki 1978 finished his studies in history at the University of Gdansk, was found in the second half of the seventies the proximity to the opposition in the Gdańsk Bay area. From 1976 he worked in the Committee for the Defense of Workers ( Komitet Obrony Robotników, short KOR), and in 1977 he was among the founders of the Student Committee of Solidarity ( Studencki Komitet Solidarności ) in Gdansk. In the years 1977-1979 Rybicki was in the anti-communist movement in defense of human and civil rights (Ruch Obrony Pravda człowieka i Obywatela, short ROPCiO ), where he as a printer for the pommerellische printing the font Opinia ( " opinion " ) worked. In the period 1978-1980 he worked as an archivist for the parishes of Gdynia and Gdansk in the chaplain of the Solidarity movement Hilary Jastak. He is the author of larger individual scientific representations of these communities. From 1979 he was active in the opposition youth organization Ruch Młodej Polski, where he edited the samizdat magazine spread in the Bratniak. Rybicki also worked closely with the independent union Wolne związki zawodowe Wybrzeża ( FTU ) and with the party Konfederacja Polski Niepodległej ( German: Confederation of Independent Poland, briefly KPN ) together. In August 1980, he helped the strike protesting workers on the coast. Together with Maciej Grzywaczewski, who later became director of the first program of Polish Television ( TVP), he put on a board with 21 demands of the inter-company strike committees. This event was one of the subjects at the Polish film Solidarność, Solidarność ... of 2005. In 2003, this board was included by UNESCO in the list of world cultural heritage.
After the events in August 1980 Rybicki began to engage in the Solidarność. So he headed in 1981, the Information Office of Solidarity. He was then interned in the period of martial law from 1981 to 1983 in the village Strzebielinek in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. After his release Rybicki worked from 1983 to 1988 closely with Lech Wałęsa. In the period 1984-1990 he worked successively in the Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polska Akademia Nauk (1984-1985 ), on the editorial board of the Catholic Scripture Przegląd Katolicki (1985-1986 ) and in the cooperative work Świetlik in Gdansk (1986-1990).
In the years 1990-1991 Rybicki was State Secretary in the office of President Lech Wałęsa. Then he led for two years a private company, and then he was for four years the creative director in the film agency Profilm. From 1999 to 2001, Rybicki Vice Minister, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage ( Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego ), among others, responsible for cooperation with foreign countries and the European integration. In the years 2002-2005 Rybicki led the Baltic Centre for Culture ( Centrum Kultury Nadbałtyckie ) of the culture, sports and tourism department in the Office of Woiwodschaftsmarschalls the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
In the years 1998-2005 Rybicki had a seat on the City Council of Gdansk. In 1991 he was co-founder of the small conservative party Koalicja Republikanska ( Republican coalition ). From 1992 to 1996 he was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party partia Konserwatywna, and from 1996 to 2000, he belonged to the conservative People's Party Stronnictwo Konserwatywno - Ludowe ( SKL ). From 2001 Rybicki ( Platforma Obywatelska ) served as regional chairman in Gdansk in the Civic Platform. In the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2005 and in the elections of 2007 he won for this party a parliamentary seat for the V and VI. Election period.
He is the author of many publications in the field of history, politics and culture as well as scripts for documentaries.
On April 10, 2010 Arkadiusz Rybicki 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.
Awards
Rybicki 1999 got the award for earned for Polish Culture ( Zasłużony Działacz Kultury ). He was awarded by French President Jacques Chirac with the National Order of Merit in 2001. 2005 he was awarded the medal for the 25th anniversary of Solidarity. Posthumously Rybicki was awarded on April 16, 2010, the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Wielki Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).