Jerzy Marian Konieczny (12 September 1950 – 27 July 2020) was a Polish lawyer,

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

, academic and author. Konieczny served as the Chief of the

Urząd Ochrony Państwa The Office of State Protection (Polish language, Polish: ''Urząd Ochrony Państwa'' (, UOP)

(UOP), Poland's former

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, from 1992 to 1993. He then served briefly as

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

from 1995 to 1996.

Biography

Konieczny was born on 12 September 1950. He earned a degree in chemistry from the

University of Silesia in Katowice The University of Silesia in Katowice ( pl, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, UŚ) is an autonomous state-run university in Silesia Province, Katowice, Poland. The university offers higher education and research facilities. It offers undergrad ...

and studied law at

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

. He received his

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from the

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in 1979. He also completed a postdoctoral degree in legal science from the University of Silesia in 1990. Konieczny served as Chief of the

Urząd Ochrony Państwa The Office of State Protection (Polish language, Polish: ''Urząd Ochrony Państwa'' (, UOP)

(UOP) from 1992 to 1993. He founded the Konsalnet security company in 1994. Konieczny later served as the

from 29 December 1995 until 7 February 1996, in the Cabinet of

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Józef Oleksy Józef Oleksy (; 22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician, former chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (''Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej'', SLD). Early life and education In his youth he lived in Nowy Sącz, and was ...

. In 1997, Konieczny ran for a Warsaw-based seat 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 t ...

as a Democratic Left Alliance candidate, but lost the election. He left politics and civil service to become an academic. Konieczny lectured and taught at the

, the Krakow Academy Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, the University of Opole, and the University of Management and Marketing in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

. He also co-authored two books: "Justycjariusze, hutmani, policjanci. Z dziejów służb ochrony porządku w Polsce" (co-authored with Andrzejem Abramskim) and "Kryminalistyka" (co-authored with Janem Widackim and Tadeusz Widłą). Jerzy Konieczny died on 27 July 2020 at the age of 69. He was buried in the Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish cemetery in

Rycerka Górna Rycerka Górna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rajcza, within Żywiec County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately south-west of Rajcza, south-west of Żywiec ...

on 31 July 2020.

References

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