The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

President of the Republic of Poland

The President of the Republic of Poland is the Polish head of state. His or her rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Poland....

, established in 1989, is an institution working for and under the Polish president. This is an equivalent of such institutions as the Executive Chancellery of the President of the United States, and consists of the immediate staff of the President.

The goals of the Chancellery are multiple levels of support staff reporting to the President.

Chief of the Chancellery (Szef Kancelarii) is named and responsible before the President himself.

Chancellery also consist Presidential cabinet and the Chancellery of the National Security.

Chiefs of the Chancellery

1. Michał Janiszewski (September 1989 - December 21, 1990) - under President Wojciech Jaruzelski
   Wojciech Jaruzelski
   Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is a retired Polish military officer and Communist politician. He was the last Communist leader of Poland from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985 and the country's head of state from 1985 to 1990. He was also the last commander-in-chief of the Polish People's...
   
   
2. Jarosław Kaczyński (December 22, 1990 - October 31, 1991) - Lech Wałęsa
   Lech Wałęsa
   Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...
   
   
3. Janusz Ziółkowski (November 1, 1991 - May 11, 1995) - Lech Wałęsa
4. Tomasz Kwiatkowski (May 11, 1995 - August 12, 1995) - Lech Wałęsa
5. Stanisław Iwanicki (August 21, 1995 - December 22, 1995) - Lech Wałęsa
6. Danuta Waniek (December 23, 1995 - December 2, 1997) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
   Aleksander Kwasniewski
   Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician who served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard, and during communist rule he was active in the Socialist Union of Polish Students and was the Minister for Sport in the communist government in the 1980s...
   
   
7. Danuta Hübner
   Danuta Hübner
   Danuta Hübner is a Polish economist, academic, and policy maker. She served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009, when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform....
   
    (December 2, 1997 - November 13, 1998) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
8. Ryszard Kalisz
   Ryszard Kalisz
   Ryszard Kalisz is a Polish leftist politician and a member of the Democratic Left Alliance party. In early years he joined the Socialist Union of Polish Students, where he was deputy director of the Main Auditing Committee...
   
    (November 13, 1998 - June 13, 2000) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
9. Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
   Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
   Jolanta Dorota Szymanek-Deresz was a Polish lawyer and politician.Szymanek-Deresz was born in Przedbórz. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district, as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance....
   
    (June 13, 2000 - October 18, 2005) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
10. Edward Szymański (acting, October 18, 2005 - December 22, 2005) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
11. Andrzej Urbański (December 23, 2005 - June 2, 2006) - Lech Kaczyński
    Lech Kaczynski
    Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...
    
    
12. Robert Draba
    Robert Draba
    Robert Draba is a Polish lawyer and politician.A graduate of philosophy and sociology, and law schools of University of Warsaw, he worked in Creditanstal Bank before joining public service...
    
     (acting, June 2, 2006 - August 2, 2006) - Lech Kaczyński
13. Aleksander Szczygło (August 2, 2006 - February 7, 2007) - Lech Kaczyński
14. Robert Draba
    Robert Draba
    Robert Draba is a Polish lawyer and politician.A graduate of philosophy and sociology, and law schools of University of Warsaw, he worked in Creditanstal Bank before joining public service...
    
     (acting, February 7, 2007 - November 29, 2007) - Lech Kaczyński
15. Anna Fotyga
    Anna Fotyga
    Anna Elżbieta Fotyga née Kawecka is a Polish economist, politician, former Member of the European Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, in the successive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński...
    
     (November 29, 2007 - August 20, 2008) - Lech Kaczyński
16. Piotr Kownacki (acting August 20, 2008 - September 4, 2008) - Lech Kaczyński
17. Piotr Kownacki (September 4, 2008 - July 27, 2009) - Lech Kaczyński
18. Władysław Stasiak (July 27, 2009 - April 10, 2010) - Lech Kaczyński
19. Jacek Michałowski (acting, April 11, 2010 - July 7, 2010) - Bronisław Komorowski (acting)
20. Jacek Michałowski (since July 7, 2010) - Bronisław Komorowski (acting), Bogdan Borusewicz
    Bogdan Borusewicz
    Bogdan Michał Borusewicz, is the Speaker in the Polish Senate since 20 October 2005. Borusewicz was a democratic opposition activist under the Communist regime, a member of the Polish parliament for three terms and first Senate Speaker to serve two terms in this office.Borusewicz briefly served...
    
     (acting), Grzegorz Schetyna
    Grzegorz Schetyna
    Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm as a candidate of the Civic Platform on September 25, 2005 after receiving 14,978 votes in 1 Legnica district...
    
     (acting), Bronisław Komorowski

Chiefs of the Cabinet

1. Krzysztof Pusz
   Krzysztof Pusz
   Krzysztof Pusz is a Polish politician and lawyer.A graduate of the University of Gdańsk, he was involved in the Solidarity movement since its beginnings. He was an organizer of the Interim Coordination Commission of Solidarity. Later he was a secretary in the Solidarity's leader, Lech Wałęsa, office...
   
    (December 22, 1990 - October 29, 1991) - Lech Wałęsa
2. Mieczysław Wachowski (October 29, 1991 - August 25, 1995) - Lech Wałęsa
3. Marek Ungier (December 23, 1995 - December 30, 2004) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
4. Waldemar Dubaniowski
   Waldemar Dubaniowski
   Waldemar Jan Dubaniowski is a Polish government official, a former member of the National Broadcasting Council and the Head of Cabinet and Secretary of State in the Office of the President of Poland. He is also the Polish ambassador in Singapore.- Biography :He graduated from the Institute of...
   
    (January 20, 2005 - December 22, 2005) - Aleksander Kwaśniewski
5. Elżbieta Jakubiak
   Elżbieta Jakubiak
   Elżbieta Renata Jakubiak is a Polish politician , sports and tourism minister in the government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was head of the Polish President's Cabinet with the rank of secretary of state, and deputy to the Sejm sixth term of office.-Biography:Jakubiak was born in 1966, the daughter of...
   
    (December 23, 2005 - July 23, 2007) - Lech Kaczyński
6. Maciej Łopiński (July 23, 2007 - April 10, 2010) - Lech Kaczyński
7. Maciej Łopiński (April 10, 2010 - July 6, 2010) - Bronisław Komorowski (acting)

External links

• President official site