Henryk Wujec

{{Short description|Polish politician (1940–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} thumb|right|Wujec in 2007 '''Henryk Wujec''' (25 December 1940<ref name="Szporer2012"/> – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114883,26201907,henryk-wujec.html|title=Henryk Wujec nie żyje. Legenda "Solidarności" i działacz KOR miał 79 lat|website=gazetapl|date=15 August 2020 }}</ref>

Wujec was born in Podlesie, Biłgoraj County. As a child, he was interned at Majdanek concentration camp. He graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in Physics and went on to study electron technology as a postgraduate in 1970.<ref name=Poland/> Wujec also married his wife, physics teacher and dissident Ludwika Wujec (nee Okrent) in 1970 as well.<ref name=pn>{{cite news |first= |last=|title=Nie żyje Ludwika Wujec. Miała 83 lata |url=https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-05-26/nie-zyje-ludwika-wujec-miala-83-lata/ |work=Polsat News |publisher= |date=2024-05-26 |access-date=2024-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526131539/https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-05-26/nie-zyje-ludwika-wujec-miala-83-lata/ |archive-date=2024-05-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>

A physicist by profession,<ref name="Szporer2012">{{cite book|author=Michael Szporer|title=Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ke0MMyghGr8C&pg=PA229|year=2012|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-7487-6|pages=229}}</ref> Wujec was an activist in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.<ref name="Wejnert2014">{{cite book|author=Barbara Wejnert|title=Diffusion of Democracy: The Past and Future of Global Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X09kAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=9 January 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-04711-2|pages=128}}</ref> In 1984, he was imprisoned at Białołęka for his political activities.<ref name="Szporer2012"/>

Wujec was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Jerzy Buzek in 1999-2000. He acted as an advisor to Bronisław Komorowski when the latter became President of Poland in 2010.<ref name=Poland>{{cite web|url=https://polandin.com/49424797/polish-anti-communist-activist-solidarity-legend-henryk-wujec-dies-at-79|title=Polish anti communist activist, 'Solidarity' legend Henryk Wujec dies at 79|date=15 August 2020|website=Poland In|access-date=19 August 2020}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

He died at the age of 79 on 15 August 2020 after a long illness. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery and posthumously awarded Poland's highest order, the Order of the White Eagle.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wprost.pl/kraj/10356045/henryk-wujec-odznaczony-orderem-orla-bialego-zostal-pochowany-na-powazkach-wojskowych.html |title=Henryk Wujec odznaczony Orderem Orła Białego. Został pochowany na Powązkach Wojskowych |access-date=25 August 2020}}</ref>

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