Stanisław Komorowski
Stanisław Jerzy Komorowski ( born December 18, 1953 in Warsaw, † 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia) was a Polish politician, diplomat, physicist, Vice Foreign Minister (2005 to 2006) and up to his death in the Polish Vice-Minister of Defense.
Life
As a physicist, Komorowski finished his studies at the Warsaw University. In 1985, he became a doctor of physics. From 1978 to 1990 he was a research associate at the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( Polska Akademia Nauk ). 1991 Komorowski was director of staff offices in the Polish Foreign Ministry. From 1994 to 1998 he was ambassador in The Hague in the Netherlands, 1999-2004 Ambassador to London in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. From 1998 to 1999 he was director Komorowski at the office of Foreign Minister. From 10 November 2005 to October 9, 2006, he was Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On November 26, 2007, he was appointed Vice Minister, Ministry of Defence ( Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej ).
On April 10, 2010 Komorowski was part of 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 Komorowski was awarded on 16 April 2010 the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).