Bronisław Geremek
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Professor Bronisław Geremek (born March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish (son of a rabbi) social historian and politician. He was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party from 1950 until 1968, but later became an advisor to Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa. After the collapse of communism he served as a deputy in the Polish Parliament and was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2000.
Professor Geremek has received many prestigious decorations and distinctions, including the French Légion d'Honneur and the German Großes Verdienstkreuz mit Stern and in 1998 the Karlspreis (Charlemagne Award) of the city of Aachen.
On Poland's accession to the European Union he was elected a Member of the European Parliament in 2004 on the Freedom Union (UW) ticket. He was nominated by the ELDR group as their candidate for President of the European Parliament, but his candidacy failed. He is a member of polish Democratic Party - demokraci.pl.
He currently holds the Chair of European Civilisation at the College of Europe, Natolin (Warsaw). He obtained his doctorate from the University of Warsaw in 1960, and is also a graduate of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, Sorbonne). He has since worked as Director of the Centre for Polish Culture at the Sorbonne and as Director of the Research Department for Medieval History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and has taught at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sorbonne, and Collège de France.
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| Republic of Poland | Leon Wasilewski · Ignacy Jan Paderewski · Władysław Wróblewski · Stanisław Patek · Eustachy Sapieha · Jan Dąbski · Konstanty Skirmunt · Gabriel Narutowicz · Aleksander Skrzyński · Marian Seyda · Roman Dmowski · Karol Bertoni · Maurycy Klemens Zamoyski · Aleksander Skrzyński · Kajetan Dzierżykraj-Morawski · August Zaleski · Józef Beck |
| Polish government in Exile | August Zaleski · Edward Raczyński · Tadeusz Romer · Adam Tarnowski |
| People's Republic of Poland | Edward Osóbka-Morawski · Wincenty Rzymowski · Zygmunt Modzelewski · Stanisław Skrzeszewski · Adam Rapacki · Stefan Jędrychowski · Stefan Olszowski · Emil Wojtaszek · Józef Czyrek · Stefan Olszowski · Marian Orzechowski · Tadeusz Olechowski |
| Republic of Poland | Krzysztof Skubiszewski · Andrzej Olechowski · Władysław Bartoszewski · Dariusz Rosati · Bronisław Geremek · Władysław Bartoszewski · Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz · Adam Daniel Rotfeld · Stefan Meller · Anna Fotyga |
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| Tadeusz Mazowiecki | Leszek Balcerowicz | Bronisław Geremek | Władysław Frasyniuk |
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