Jan Rzymełka

January Rzymełka ( born June 7, 1952 in Katowice ) is a Polish politician, Platforma Obywatelska ( Civic Platform ).

Rzymełka completed his geology studies at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy Krakow 1976. He then studied at the Jagiellonian University from which he received his MA in 1978. At the same time he worked as a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice in 1977. After graduating from Krakow to Katowice where he went back in 1980 at the Silesian University doctorate. From 1980 he was in the Solidarność active and until 1989 he was deputy chairman of the union at the University of Silesia and exercised more functions. With the ban of the union and the proclamation of martial law Rzymełka was interned on 13 December 1981. When he was released half a year later, he worked underground for Solidarity. On June 4, 1989, he was elected with 144 559 votes in the Sejm, it was the last choice at the end of the Polish People's Republic in which a real opposition was first registered. Also in the first elections of the Third Polish Republic in 1991 he was able to win a mandate. 1994 January Rzymełka member of the City Council of Katowice. In the same year he became a member and then Deputy Chairman of the Parliament of the Province of Katowice. 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the Parliament of the Province of Silesia. Since 1997, the third legislative term, he is again a member of the Sejm. In February 2002 January Rzymełka member of Platforma Obywatelska. In the 2005 elections, he was elected with 8,878, in the early general elections in 2007 with 8,958 votes.

January Rzymełka is married and has two children.