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Aug 03, 1948 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland 75 years old
Polish politician, historian
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About Antoni Macierewicz
- Antoni Macierewicz (Polish pronunciation: [an't??i mat???'r?vit??]; born August 3, 1948) is the former Minister of National Defence for Poland.
- He previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defence.
- An academic, historian, and human rights activist, Macierewicz was one of the leaders of the anti-communist resistance in Poland. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Macierewicz was one of the founders in 1976 of the Workers' Defense Committee, a major anti-communist opposition organization that was a forerunner of Solidarity.
- During the 1980s Macierewicz directed the Centre for Social Research of Solidarity and was one of the trade union's key advisors.
- A former political prisoner, he escaped from incarceration and was in hiding until 1984, directing work and issuing underground publications.Macierewicz served as the Minister of Internal Affairs from 1991 to 1992, the Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service from 2006 to 2007, and the Minister of National Defence from 2015 to 2018.
- He is currently in his sixth term in the Parliament of Poland, where he represents the Piotrków Trybunalski district, and was a Member of the European Parliament.
- He is also the Deputy Leader of Law and Justice, the largest party in the Parliament of Poland. A historian of Latin America and Poland, Macierewicz has been on faculty at the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University.
