Jacek Mariusz Starościak ( (10 September 1947,

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

– 8 May 2021) was a Polish politician who was the mayor of

from 1990 to 1991. From 1965 to 1971, he studied at the Faculty of Electronics at

Gdańsk University of Technology The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, former ''GUT''; pl, Politechnika Gdańska) is a technical university in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties and with 41 fi ...

. From 1971 to 1973, he was an employee of the Navigation Department of

Gdynia Maritime University The Gdynia Maritime University (Polish: Uniwersytet Morski w Gdyni) is one of two colleges in Poland which specialises in educating highly qualified officers for the maritime industry, especially for the merchant navy. History The university ...

, and later he became an assistant professor at the Maritime Institute in Gdańsk. In 1980, he joined

Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

and chaired the factory commission in the institute. After the introduction of martial law, he was associated with the diocesan charity commission. In the second half of the 1980s, he was employed as the head of the Editors of Scientific and Professional Literature at the Maritime Publishing House. He co-founded a local branch of the

Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej (KIK; en, Club of Catholic Intelligentsia) is a Polish organization grouping Catholic intellectuals. KIK is organized into a series of local chapters (clubs). KIK was founded after Gomułka's Thaw in communist Poland ...

. After the elections in 1989, he became the director of the voivodeship office of the parliamentary-senatorial Civic Parliamentary Club. In 1990, he became a councilman in Gdańsk, later being appointed mayor of the city, which he served until June 1991. In the same year, he became President of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. From 1995 on, he worked at the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...

, including as the Polish Consul General in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

(1996–1998) and the Minister's Advisor. As of 2003, he was employed at

Bank Pekao Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna, commonly using the shorter name Bank Pekao S.A., is a universal bank and currently the second largest bank in Poland with its headquarters in Warsaw. The Italian bank UniCredit used to own 59% of the comp ...

References

1947 births 2021 deaths Mayors of Gdańsk 20th-century Polish politicians 21st-century Polish politicians Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Politicians from Gdańsk Gdańsk University of Technology alumni Academic staff of Gdynia Maritime University {{Gdańsk Consuls-General of Poland