Jerzy Holzer

Stanisław Jerzy Holzer ( born August 24, 1930 in Warsaw) is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Warsaw and one of the most famous Polish writers.

From 1950 to 1954 he studied history. His promotion followed in 1960, habilitation in 1969. Holzer since the mid- sixties, a critical attitude to the regime in Poland. He criticized, among others, in 1967, the anti -Semitic campaign of the Polish government and defended the student revolt of 1968. He also denounced the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Already since 1966, Holzer was monitored by the Polish State Security Service. From 1977 to 1989 he was active in the Polish opposition movement, including Germany as policy adviser to the Parliamentary citizens clubs / Solidarity. Multiple Holzer worked as a visiting professor in Germany. In 1989 he became a professor of contemporary history at the University of Warsaw.

From 1990 to 2006 he headed the department of Germany Research at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 2000 and 2004 he was also director of that department. Along with many other personalities advocated Holzer in 2003, the establishment of a European Centre Against Expulsions.

A stir attended in 2005 press reports that Holzer had cooperated with the Polish State Security since 1965. But shortly afterwards it turned out that it was shortened by this illegal and had acted misrepresented information.