Cabinet Of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Cabinet of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, led by Prime Minister

Tadeusz Mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki (; 18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime min ...

, came to power following the 1989 legislative election. He was nominated by the President as the Prime Minister on 24 August 1989 in order to form a new government after the Sejm rejected the Communist cabinet of

Czesław Kiszczak Czesław Jan Kiszczak (19 October 1925 – 5 November 2015) was a Polish general, communist-era interior minister (1981–1990) and prime minister (1989). In 1981 he played a key role in imposing martial law and suppression of the '' Solidar ...

, and subsequently obtained the mandatory motion of confidence in the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...

on 12 September 1989. The cabinet resigned on 25 November 1990, and the Sejm accepted the resignation of the cabinet on 14 December, though it continued to perform its duties until the formation of the Cabinet of

Jan Krzysztof Bielecki Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (born 3 May 1951) is a Polish liberal politician and economist. A leading figure of the Gdańsk-based Liberal Democratic Congress in the early 1990s, Bielecki served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. In his p ...

on 4 January 1991. ; Inaugural composition of the government: Letter to former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki

( Solidarity) - Prime Minister *

Leszek Balcerowicz Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced ; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He served as Chairman of the National Bank of Poland (2001–2007) and twice as Deputy Prime Minister o ...

( Solidarity) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance * Czesław Janicki ( ZSL) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry *

Jan Janowski Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

( SD) - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister - Head of the Office of Scientific and Technical Progress and Implementation *

(

PZPR The Polish United Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza; ), commonly abbreviated to PZPR, was the communist party which ruled the Polish People's Republic as a one-party state from 1948 to 1989. The PZPR had led two other lega ...

) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs * Jacek Ambroziak ( Solidarity) - Minister - Head of the Cabinet Office * Artur Balazs ( Solidarity) - Minister, member of the Council of Ministers (the social and cultural villages) * Aleksander Bentkowski ( ZSL) - Minister of Justice * Izabella Cywińska ( Solidarity) - Minister of Culture and Art *

Aleksander Hall Aleksander Jan Hall (born 20 May 1953 in Gdańsk) is a Polish conservative political thinker, scholar and retired politician. Activist of Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights, later a politician and member of Solidarity Electoral Action ...

( Solidarity) - Minister, member of the Cabinet (for work with political organizations and associations) * Bronisław Kamiński ( ZSL) - Minister of Environment and Natural Resources *

Andrzej Kosiniak-Kamysz Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew. Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej * Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer * Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and m ...

( ZSL) - Minister of Health and Welfare * Marek Kucharski ( SD) - Minister, member of the Council of Ministers (the organization of the Ministry of Communications) *

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Ku ...

( Solidarity) - Minister of Labour and Social Policy * Aleksander Mackiewicz ( SD) - Minister of Internal Market * Jerzy Osiatyński ( Solidarity) - Minister - Head of Central Planning Office * Aleksander Paszyński ( Solidarity) - Minister of Planning and Construction *

Henryk Samsonowicz Henryk Bohdan Samsonowicz (23 January 1930 – 28 May 2021) was a Polish historian specializing in medieval Poland, prolific writer, and professor of the University of Warsaw. In 1989–1990, he was the minister of education in the government of ...

( Solidarity) - Minister of Education *

Florian Siwicki Florian Siwicki (; 10 January 1925 – 11 March 2013) was a Polish military officer, diplomat and communism, communist politician. He was a general in the Polish Land Forces, Polish Army and Defence minister, Minister of Defense of Poland fro ...

(Communist) - Minister of National Defence *

Krzysztof Skubiszewski Krzysztof Jan Skubiszewski (8 October 1926 – 8 February 2010) was a Polish politician, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993) and an established scholar in the field of international law. Early life and education Skubiszewsk ...

(nonpartisan) - Minister of Foreign Affairs * Tadeusz Syryjczyk ( Solidarity) - Minister of Industry *

Marcin Święcicki Marcin Święcicki (born 17 April 1947) is a Polish politician and economist. He is a former deputy minister of economy, former minister for foreign economic relations as well as a former city mayor of Warsaw. Early life and education Święcic ...

(Communist) - Minister of Foreign Economic Cooperation * Witold Trzeciakowski ( Solidarity) - Minister-Member of the Council of Ministers, from December 1989 Chairman of the Economic Council * Franciszek Wielądek (Communist) - Minister of Transport, shipping and communications Małgorzata Niezabitowska served as government spokesman. ; Composition of the government on its resignation: *

( Solidarity, Democratic Union) - Prime Minister *

( Solidarity) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance * Jan Janowski ( SD) - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister - Head of the Office of Scientific and Technical Progress and Implementation * Jacek Ambroziak ( Solidarity) - Minister - Head of the Cabinet Office * Artur Balazs ( Solidarity) - Minister, member of the Council of Ministers (the social and cultural villages) * Aleksander Bentkowski ( PSL) - Minister of Justice * Janusz Byliński ( Solidarity) - Minister of Agriculture and Food * Izabella Cywińska ( Solidarity) - Minister of Culture and Art * Aleksander Hall ( Solidarity) - Minister, member of the Cabinet (for work with political organizations and associations) * Bronisław Kamiński (Minister) (Polish Peasant Party) - Minister of the Environment, Natural Resources and Forestry * Piotr Kołodziejczyk (nonpartisan) - Minister of National Defence * Andrzej Kosiniak-Kamysz ( PSL) - Minister of Health and Welfare *

Krzysztof Kozłowski Krzysztof Jan Kozlowski (18 August 1931 – 26 March 2013) was a Polish journalist and politician. He served as Poland's Minister of the former Interior and Administration with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki from 1990 until 199 ...

( Solidarity) - Interior Minister * Jacek Kuroń - Minister of Labour and Social Policy * Waldemar Kuczyński ( Solidarity) - Minister of Privatization * Aleksander Mackiewicz ( SD) - Minister of Internal Market * Jerzy Osiatyński ( Solidarity) - Minister - Head of Central Planning Office * Aleksander Paszyński ( Solidarity) - Minister of Planning and Construction *

( Solidarity) - Minister of Education *

- Minister of Foreign Affairs * Jerzy Slezak ( SD) - Minister of Communications * Tadeusz Syryjczyk ( Solidarity) - Minister of Industry * Marcin Święcicki (DIRECT) - Minister of Foreign Economic Cooperation * Witold Trzeciakowski ( Solidarity, Democratic Union) - Minister-Member of the Council of Ministers, from December 1989 Chairman of the Economic Council * Ewaryst Waligórski ( Solidarity) - Transport and Maritime Affairs ; Changes in Composition * ''December 20, 1989'' *** Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Czesław Janicki took office as minister of agriculture and food industries. *** Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Bronisław Kamiński took office as minister of environmental protection, natural resources and forestry. *** Minister of Transport, shipping and communications Franciszek Wielądek took office as Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs. *** Minister for the organization of the Ministry of Communications Marek Kucharski took office as minister of communications. * ''January 1990'' ** Transformation of the Ministry of Environment and natural resources in the department of environmental protection, natural resources and forestry. * ''July 6, 1990'' ** Dismissed: *** Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Food Czesław Janicki. *** Deputy Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak. *** Defense minister Florian Siwicki. *** Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs Franciszek Wielądek. ** Appointed: ***

for the office of Interior Minister. *** Piotr Kołodziejczyk at the office of minister of national defense. *** Ewaryst Waligórski for the office of Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs. * ''July 13, 1990'' ** Ministry of Privatization created. * ''September 14, 1990'' ** Dismissed: *** Communications Minister Marek Kucharski. ** Appointed: *** Jerzy Slezak for the office of minister of communications. *** Janusz Byliński for the office of minister of agriculture and food industries. *** Waldemar Kuczyński ( Solidarity) in the office of the minister of privatization. {{Polish Cabinets Polish government cabinets History of Poland (1989–present) 1989 establishments in Poland 1991 disestablishments in Poland Cabinets established in 1989 Cabinets disestablished in 1991