Division General Michał Janiszewski (15 June 1926 – 3 February 2016) was a Polish officer and public official. A close aide of General

Wojciech Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski ( ; ; 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military general, politician and ''de facto'' leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989. He was the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party ...

, he served for a number of years as his chief of cabinet. First when Jaruzelski was

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(1972–1981). When Jaruzelski became a

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in 1981, Janiszewski was the head of the office of the Council of Ministers under him and the two next Prime Ministers -

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and

Mieczysław Rakowski Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski ( Polish: ; 1 December 1926 – 8 November 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1988 to 1989. He served as the seventh and final First Secretary o ...

. After Jaruzelski was elected

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, Janiszewski became the first chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland (until December 1989

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). He was a chief of the office from September 1989 until Jaruzelski stepped down on 22 December 1990. Janiszewski was also a member of the

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(1981–1983). In 1976 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general, and in 1983 to the rank of major general. He was a doctor of military science. In December 1990 he ended his professional military service and public activity. In January 1991, at the age of 64, he was retired. He died on February 3, 2016 at the age of 89 and was buried on February 11, 2016 at the Junikowo cemetery in Poznań. The date of the funeral was not made public, the funeral was exclusively a family funeral. He was wrongly declared dead by the Institute of National Remembrance 9 years earlier, which is why he was omitted from the accusation of the group introducing martial law.

Awards and decorations

* Polish: ** POL Order Sztandaru Pracy 1 klasy BAR

Order of the Banner of Labour The Order of the Banner of Labour () was a governmental award in Poland during the 20th-century era of the Polish People's Republic, a former Marxist-Leninist state. The order was established by the Sejm (a chamber of the Polish parliament) on 2 ...

, 1st Class ** POL Polonia Restituta Komandorski BAR

Commander's Cross of the

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Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ** Gold Cross of Merit ** POL Medal 30-lecia Polski Ludowej BAR

Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland ** POL Medal 40-lecia Polski Ludowej BAR

Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland The Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland ( Polish: ''Medal 40-lecia Polski Ludowej'') is a former civil decoration of Poland established by the Sejm on 26 April 1984 to recognize the contribution of working people in the development of ...

** Gold Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland ** Silver Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland ** Bronze Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland **

Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland The Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland (Polish: ''Medal 10-lecia Polski Ludowej'') is a former Polish civil state award established by the Council of State on 23 May 1954 to recognize services to the state. It was created to mark ...

** Gold

Medal of Merit for National Defence The Medal of Merit for National Defence () is a military decoration, decoration of the Ministry of National Defence (Poland), Ministry of National Defence of Poland. Established 21 April 1966 and revised in 1991, the medal recognizes meritorious s ...

** Silver Medal of Merit for National Defence ** Bronze Medal of Merit for National Defence ** Medal of the National Education Commission ** Bronze Badge "For merits in the protection of public order" * Foreign: ** Order of the Red Star (Czechoslovakia) ** FreedomAndIndependence2Ribbon

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, 2nd Class (North Korea) ** Vietnam Glorious Fighter Medal ribbon

Friendship Medal (Vietnam) ** GDR Combat-Order for Merit for the Nation and Fatherland - Bronze BAR

Bronze Combat Order of Merit for the People and the Fatherland (East Germany) ** Ribbon of the Order of Friendship of Peoples

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(USSR) **

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (USSR) ** 60 years saf rib

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" The Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" () was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established and bestowed upon military personnel to denote the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the armed forces of ...

(USSR)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Janiszewski, Michal 1926 births 2016 deaths Polish generals Politicians from Poznań People from Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939) Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Order of the Banner of Work Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Medal of the 40th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland