Kazimierz Rynkowski | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Gdańsk | |
| In office 22 December 1981 – 23 November 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Jerzy Młynarczyk |
| Succeeded by | Jerzy Pasiński |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1933-09-09)9 September 1933 |
| Died | 10 June 2022(2022-06-10) (aged 88) Gdańsk, Poland |
| Political party | Polish United Workers' Party Democratic Left Alliance |
| Children | 1 |
Kazimierz Rynkowski (9 September 1933 – 10 June 2022)[1] was a Polish Communist politician who was the mayor ofGdańsk from 1981 to 1989. He was notably the last mayor completely during thePolish People's Republic.
Born to Bernard Rynkowski and Marianna Kowal with 8 siblings, he became a construction worker in Gdańsk afterWorld War II. In 1964, he graduated fromAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań with a master's degree in law. From 1957 to 1960, he was an employee of the Municipal Committee of thePolish United Workers' Party (PZPR) in Gdańsk, later serving in multiple positions in the party's bureaucracy in the city. From 1970 to 1973, he was the first deputy chairman of the Municipal National Council under Jan Nikołajew.[2] From 1981 to 1989, he was the mayor of the city, the last fully under the Polish People's Republic. He was mayor during the rise of theSolidarity movement, which started in the city, as well as the institution ofmartial law in Poland and the subsequent periods of civil unrest throughout Poland in the 1980s that led to the unraveling of Communist Poland.[3] He was succeeded byJerzy Pasiński.
After the establishment of post-Communist Poland, from 2002 to 2012, he was the Pomeranian Spokesperson for party discipline of theDemocratic Left Alliance.[4] He had one daughter.[2]
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