35 Facts About Antoni Macierewicz

Antoni Macierewicz previously served as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, and Minister of State in the Ministry of National Defence.

Antoni Macierewicz served as the Minister of Internal Affairs from 1991 to 1992, the Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service from 2006 to 2007, and the Minister of National Defence from 2015 to 2018.

Antoni Macierewicz is currently in his sixth term in the Parliament of Poland, where he represents the Piotrkow Trybunalski district, and was a Member of the European Parliament.

Antoni Macierewicz is the Deputy Leader of Law and Justice, the largest party in the Parliament of Poland.

Antoni Macierewicz was expelled from Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski High School for political reasons in 1965, specifically for refusing to denounce the Letter of Reconciliation of the Polish Bishops to the German Bishops.

Antoni Macierewicz co-organized underground student organizations and participated in the student strikes that marked the 1968 Polish political crisis.

Antoni Macierewicz was arrested and remained a political prisoner from 28 March to 3 August 1968.

Antoni Macierewicz's thesis was titled Hierarchy of Power and the Structure of Land Ownership in Tawantinsuyu in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century.

Antoni Macierewicz taught the history of Latin America at the Department of Iberian Studies of the University of Warsaw.

Antoni Macierewicz founded the Workers' Defence Committee, the forerunner of Solidarity.

From 16 May to 23 July 1977, and again in December 1979, Antoni Macierewicz was held as a political prisoner.

From September 1980, Antoni Macierewicz directed the Centre for Social Research of Solidarity.

Antoni Macierewicz began to publish the independent newspaper News Day Warsaw.

On 27 September 1981 Antoni Macierewicz was one of the signatories of the founding declaration of Independence Service Clubs.

Antoni Macierewicz was in hiding until 1984, directing work and issuing underground publications.

Antoni Macierewicz remains a Member of the Sejm, where he has served from 25 November 1991 to 31 May 1993, from 20 October 1997 to 18 October 2005 and from 5 November 2007 to present.

Antoni Macierewicz is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the Investigation of the Causes of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 Crash.

Antoni Macierewicz is a member of the National Defense Commission and the Subcommission for the Polish Defense Industry and Technical Modernization of the Armed Forces.

On 4 June 1992, Antoni Macierewicz provided a list, commonly known as the Antoni Macierewicz List, of 64 members of the government and parliament that had been identified as secret agents in the archives of the communist secret police to the Convent of Senior Parliamentarians.

Antoni Macierewicz joined Olszewski's party, the Movement for Reconstruction of Poland, and became his deputy in 1996.

Antoni Macierewicz was a Member of the European Parliament during the fifth term.

Antoni Macierewicz served on the Committee on Development and Cooperation.

In July 2006, Antoni Macierewicz was appointed as the Chairman of the Verification Commission.

On 16 February 2007 the closure report, known as the Antoni Macierewicz Report, was published in the Polish Monitor.

In October 2006, Antoni Macierewicz became Head of the Military Counterintelligence Service, in office until the end of the Kaczynski government.

Since 20 July 2010 Antoni Macierewicz is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the Investigation of the Causes of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, commonly known as the Antoni Macierewicz Commission.

Since the first days after the crash, Antoni Macierewicz claimed the crash was an assassination.

Since 23 November 2013 Antoni Macierewicz has been the Deputy Leader of Law and Justice, the largest party in the Parliament of Poland.

Antoni Macierewicz paid an official visit to Israel in April 2016.

Antoni Macierewicz was criticized in the Polish press during the 2016 Warsaw summit for his support of the defense industry of Israel.

In October 2016 Antoni Macierewicz was condemned by Gazeta Wyborcza for his association with a leading champion of the fight to restore assets from Swiss banks to Holocaust survivors.

On 23 September 2022 Antoni Macierewicz was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the highest state decoration.

In 1996, Antoni Macierewicz wrote that Poles did not murder Jews in the Kielce pogrom in 1946.

In July 2016, Antoni Macierewicz said that the "real enemy", Russia, shares responsibility for the massacres of Poles and Jews in German-occupied Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

In October 2024, a special commission investigating Russian and Belarusian influences in Poland accused Antoni Macierewicz of undertaking decisions as defence minister that weakened Poland's defence capability, including canceling plans to purchase tanker aircraft for the country's F-16 fighter jet fleet without analysis or consultation, which the commission attributed to Antoni Macierewicz's "personal aversion to partners in the EU".