Tomasz Posadzki (, born 13 November 1961) was mayor of

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, Poland, from 1994 to 1998. A lawyer by profession, in 1986, he graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdańsk. In the early 1980s, he participated in organizing the

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. After graduating, he was admitted to the bar and started to run his own lawyer's office in Gdańsk. From 1994 to 2002, he was a councilman in Gdańsk, and was the mayor of the city from 1994 to 1998. He was succeeded by Paweł Adamowicz. He was a member of the Association of Polish Cities. From 2000 to 2006, he was employed at

Telewizja Polska Telewizja Polska S.A. (; "Polish Television"; TVP), also known in English as the public Polish Television is a Polish state media corporation. It is the largest Polish television network, although viewership has been declining in the 2010s. Sinc ...

, where he was the vice-president of its board and then the general director of corporate affairs. Starting in the early 1990s, he was involved in the activities of the Democratic Union and Freedom Union parties. In 2005, he joined the

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. He applied unsuccessfully to run for the

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in 1991 and 1993 for the Democratic Union and to the Senate in 2007 for the Left and Democrats. In 2012, he was appointed Honorary Consul of Estonia in Gdańsk. In 2010, he was awarded the fourth class of the

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1961 births Living people Mayors of Gdańsk 20th-century Polish politicians 21st-century Polish politicians University of Gdańsk alumni Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 4th Class {{Gdańsk