Zdzisław Marek Krasnodębski (born 11 April 1953 in

Choszczno Choszczno () is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. As of December 2021, the town has a population of 14,831. The town is in a marshy district between the river Stobnica and Klukom lake, southeast of Stargard and ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

) is a Polish sociologist, social philosopher, publicist and professor at the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen () is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 18,400 students from 117 countries. Its 12 faculties offer more than 100 degree programs. The University of Bremen has been among the top 50 European rese ...

(Germany), who has been a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

since the 2014 election.

Biography

He finished Piotr Skarga High School in Grójec (1972). In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

and in 1981 from the Ruhr -Universität Bochum. In 1984 he obtained a PhD at the University of Warsaw, and in 1991 at the same university he earned a post-doctoral degree (doctor habil.) with a thesis entitled: The Fall of the idea of progress. Between 1976 and 1991 he taught sociology, social theory and philosophy at the University of Warsaw. From 1991 to 1992 he was a professor at the

University of Kassel The University of Kassel () is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 professors. A special unit (Studienkoll ...

. In 1992 he settled in Germany. In 1995 he was appointed professor at the

. In the years 2001-2011 he was also an associate professor at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He also taught, among others, at the Catholic University of America, Columbia University. He also gave visiting lectures at numerous universities e.g. Princeton University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. He is also an associate professor at the Akademia Ignatianum in Cracow. Appointed to the committee the Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999-2006), Scientific Council of the Helmuth Plessner - Gesellschaft, the jury of Hannah Arendt Prize (2003-2007), Scientific Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs (2007-2010), as well as chairman of the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation. He is also a chairman of the chapter of Lech Kaczynski's Prize. As a publicist he cooperated or cooperates with the monthly journal "Znak", Rzeczpospolita newspaper, Gazeta Polska, Dziennik (including appendix – Europa) and the weekly journal – wSieci. In 2005 he became a member of the Honorary Committee supporting Lech Kaczynski in the presidential elections in Poland. Between 2007 and 2009 he was a member of the Public Service Council to the Prime Minister. In 2014 he became a member of the Program Board of

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ...

party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość). In the same year in the elections to the European Parliament he started from a list of the Law and Justice in district 4 - Warsaw and received a mandate of the Member of the European Parliament of the eighth term, receiving 96,292 votes. He was a

Vice President of the European Parliament There are fourteen vice-presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the president in presiding over the plenary of the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and ...

. He is a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw People from Choszczno County 1953 births University of Warsaw alumni Ruhr University Bochum alumni Academic staff of the University of Bremen Living people MEPs for Poland 2014–2019 Law and Justice MEPs Polish sociologists MEPs for Poland 2019–2024