Bronisław Komorowski

Garbės daktaras / Honorary Doctor (Suteiktas vardas 2013-11-13)

Bronisław Komorowski is a Polish politician, historian, and former President of the Republic of Poland (2010–2015). He served as the Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001 and was the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 2007 to 2010.

In the 1960s, he took an active part in the Scout movement and belonged to the 75th Mazovian Scout Team in Pruszków. In 1977, he graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in history. From 1977 to 1980, he worked as an editor for the newspaper Słowo Powszechne. Starting in 1980, he became an activist in the Solidarity movement.

From 1991 to 1997, he was a member of the Democratic Union and the Freedom Union, serving as their Secretary General from 1993 to 1995. In 1991 and 1993, he was elected to the Sejm of Poland as a candidate of the Democratic Union. From 1997, he was the Secretary General and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative People’s Party. In 1997, he was elected a Member of the Sejm under the Solidarity Electoral Action list. Until 2000, he chaired the Parliamentary National Defence Committee.

On 10 April 2010, Bronisław Komorowski became the Acting President of Poland following the death of President Lech Kaczyński in a plane crash.

VMU Honorary Doctorate was awarded to His Excellency Bronisław Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland, on 30 June 2015.