Maciej Wincenty Musiał (born 22 January 1952) is a Polish politician and physicist. He was the Chief of the

Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland The Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland ( Polish: ''Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów - lit. Chancellery of the President of the Council of Ministers''), or KPRM, is the executive office for the Prime Minister of Poland. Created under the ...

from 2000 to 2001, the

voivode Voivode ( ), also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode ( ), voivoda, vojvoda, vaivada or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Mid ...

of the

Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...

from 1999 to 2001, and the voivode of the

Poznań Voivodeship Poznań Voivodeship was the name of several former administrative regions (''województwo'', rendered as ''voivodeship'' and usually translated as "province") in Poland, centered on the city of Poznań, although the exact boundaries changed over t ...

from 1997 to 1998.

Biography

Maciej Musiał was born on 22 January 1952 in

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

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. In 1973, he graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the

Adam Mickiewicz University Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam si ...

. From 1975 to 1990, he worked in the Wood Technology Institute in Poznań. In 1980 he joined the

Solidarity Solidarity or solidarism is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. True solidarity means moving beyond individual identities and single issue politics ...

trade union. In 1981, following the enactment of the

martial law in Poland Martial law in Poland () existed between 13 December 1981 and 22 July 1983. The Polish United Workers' Party, government of the Polish People's Republic drastically restricted everyday life by introducing martial law and a military junta in an a ...

, he was one of the organisers of its provisional board of the

Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; ), is a Polish Polish historical regions, historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city in Poland. The bound ...

Region, and in 1989 became the regional deputy chairperson. The same year he was also the director of the Poznań division of the

Solidarity Citizens' Committee The Solidarity Citizens' Committee (''Komitet Obywatelski "Solidarność"'', KO "S"), also known as Citizens' Electoral Committee (''Obywatelski Komitet Wyborczy'') and previously named the Citizens' Committee with Lech Wałęsa (''Komitet Obywatel ...

, during the 1989 parliamentary election. He was the director of the voivodeship office in Poznań from 1990 to 1996, the

of the

from 1997 to 1998, and the voivode of the

from 1999 to 2000. From June 2000 to October 2001 he was the chief of the

under the

cabinet of Jerzy Buzek Cabinet of Jerzy Buzek was appointed on 31 October 1997 and passed the vote of confidence on 11 November 1997. The Cabinet {{Polish Cabinets Buzek, Jerzy Cabinet of Jerzy Buzek 1997 establishments in Poland 2001 disestablishments in Pola ...

. Later, he thought at the Higher School of Banking in Poznań, and was the board and general director of the

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from 2006 to 2008.

Awards and decorations

* Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011) *

Cross of Freedom and Solidarity The Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (''Krzyż Wolności i Solidarności'') was established on 5 August 2010, to honor members of the democratic opposition in Poland who between the years 1956 and 1989 were killed, seriously wounded or injured, arr ...

(2019) * Title

Distinguished to the City of Poznań In law, to distinguish a case means a court decides the holding or legal reasoning of a precedent case that will not apply due to materially different facts between the two cases. Two formal constraints constrain the later court: the expressed r ...

(2020)

References

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