Jacek Mariusz Starościak ( (10 September 1947,

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– 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, formerly GUT; ) is a public research university in Gdańsk, Poland. Founded in 1904 and re-established in 1945, it is the oldest university of technology in modern-day Poland. It is consisten ...

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

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

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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. 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

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, including as the Polish Consul General in

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

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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 for Poland