Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
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Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland was formed on 31 October 2005, from transformation of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland.

The ministry is concerned with various aspects of Polish culture.

The ministry can trace its history to 1944.

Current minister is Bogdan Zdrojewski
Bogdan Zdrojewski
Bogdan Zdrojewski is a Polish politician who was the first president of Wrocław after the fall of communism in Poland, and held the seat from 1990 to 2001. Afterwards he was a senator and member of the Polish Sejm. Since November 2007, he has been the Minister of Culture and National...

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Ministers of Culture and Art (1989-1999)

No. Name Term of Offices Party Served under
1 Izabella Cywińska 12 September 1989 - 14 December 1990 None Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II.-Biography:Mazowiecki comes from a Polish...

2 Marek Rostworowski 12 January 1991 - 5 December 1991 None Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki is a Polish centre politician. He served as Prime Minister of Poland for most of 1991. He is a member of Civic Platform. Chairman of the Council of the Polish Institute of International Affairs....

3 Andrzej Siciński 23 December 1991 - 5 June 1992 None Jan Olszewski
Jan Olszewski
Jan Ferdynand Olszewski is a Polish lawyer and political figure. He is best known for serving as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1992....

Piotr Łukasiewicz (acting) 11 July 1992 - 17 February 1993 None Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Suchocka is a Polish political figure. She served as the prime minister of Poland between 11 July 1992 and 26 October 1993 under the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland and 19th in the world.Suchocka is a specialist in Constitutional Law...

4 Jerzy Góral 17 February 1993 - 26 October 1993 United Christian Nationals Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Suchocka
Hanna Suchocka is a Polish political figure. She served as the prime minister of Poland between 11 July 1992 and 26 October 1993 under the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. She is the first woman to hold this post in Poland and 19th in the world.Suchocka is a specialist in Constitutional Law...

5 Kazimierz Dejmek
Kazimierz Dejmek
Kazimierz Dejmek was a Polish actor, theatre and film director, and politician. During his career he managed the Teatr Nowy in Łódź , the National Theatre, Warsaw, and the Teatr Polski, Warsaw. From 1993 to 1996 he served as Poland's Minister of Culture...

26 October 1993 - 26 January 1996 None Waldemar Pawlak
Waldemar Pawlak
Waldemar Pawlak is a Polish politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Poland, briefly in 1992 and again from 1993 to 1995. Since November 2007, he has been Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy. Pawlak is the only person who held the office of Prime Minister twice during the...

, Józef Oleksy
Józef Oleksy
Józef Oleksy is a post-communist Polish politician, former chairman of Democratic Left Alliance ....

6 Zdzisław Podkański 15 February 1996 - 31 October 1997 Polish People's Party Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
7 Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa 31 October 1997 - 26 March 1998 Freedom Union
Freedom Union (Poland)
The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic party in Poland. It was founded on March 20, 1994 out of the merger of the Democratic Union and the Liberal Democratic Congress . Both of these parties had roots in the Solidarity trade union movement. It represented European democratic and liberal...

Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...

8 Andrzej Zakrzewski
Andrzej Zakrzewski
Andrzej Jerzy Zakrzewski was a Polish lawyer, historian, politician, journalist, publicist...

26 March 1998 - 19 October 1999 Conservative People's Party
Conservative People's Party (Poland)
The Conservative People's Party is a political party in Poland.-Leaders:* Artur Balazs - party chairman* Ireneusz Niewiarowski - parliamentary caucus chairman-Members of Polish Parliament :...

Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...


Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (1999-2001)

No. Name Term of Offices Party Served under
1 Andrzej Zakrzewski
Andrzej Zakrzewski
Andrzej Jerzy Zakrzewski was a Polish lawyer, historian, politician, journalist, publicist...

19 October 1999 - 10 February 2000 Conservative People's Party
Conservative People's Party (Poland)
The Conservative People's Party is a political party in Poland.-Leaders:* Artur Balazs - party chairman* Ireneusz Niewiarowski - parliamentary caucus chairman-Members of Polish Parliament :...

Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...

2 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski 16 March 2000 - 12 July 2001 Conservative People's Party
Conservative People's Party (Poland)
The Conservative People's Party is a political party in Poland.-Leaders:* Artur Balazs - party chairman* Ireneusz Niewiarowski - parliamentary caucus chairman-Members of Polish Parliament :...

Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...

3 Andrzej Zieliński 12 July 2001 - 19 October 2001 None Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Buzek
Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...


Ministers of Culture (2001-2005)

No. Name Term of Offices Party Served under
1 Andrzej Celiński
Andrzej Celinski
Andrzej Celiński is a Polish socialist politician, a prominent leader of the Democratic opposition to the communist regime, and after 1989, a member of the Sejm and Senate and Minister of Culture....

19 October 2001 - 6 July 2002 Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance is a social-democratic political party in Poland. Formed in 1991 as a coalition of centre-left parties, it was formally established as a single party on 15 April 1999. It is currently the third largest opposition party in Poland....

Leszek Miller
Leszek Miller
Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish central-left-wing politician, leader of the Democratic Left Alliance , Prime Minister of the government of the Republic of Poland in 2001-2004.-Childhood and youth:...

2 Waldemar Dąbrowski 6 July 2002 - 31 October 2005 None Leszek Miller
Leszek Miller
Leszek Cezary Miller is a Polish central-left-wing politician, leader of the Democratic Left Alliance , Prime Minister of the government of the Republic of Poland in 2001-2004.-Childhood and youth:...

, Marek Belka
Marek Belka
Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of Economics, a former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, former Director of the International Monetary Fund's European Department and current Head of National Bank of Poland.- Biography :...


Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (2005-present)

No. Name Term of Offices Party Served under
1 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski 31 October 2005 - 7 September 2007 Law and Justice
Law and Justice
Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from October 31, 2005 to July 14, 2006...

, Jarosław Kaczyński
Jarosław Kaczyński (acting) 7 September 2007 - 12 September 2007 Law and Justice
Law and Justice
Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....

Jarosław Kaczyński
2 Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski 12 September 2007 - 16 November 2007 Law and Justice
Law and Justice
Law and Justice , abbreviated to PiS, is a right-wing, conservative political party in Poland. With 147 seats in the Sejm and 38 in the Senate, it is the second-largest party in the Polish parliament....

Jarosław Kaczyński
3 Bogdan Zdrojewski
Bogdan Zdrojewski
Bogdan Zdrojewski is a Polish politician who was the first president of Wrocław after the fall of communism in Poland, and held the seat from 1990 to 2001. Afterwards he was a senator and member of the Polish Sejm. Since November 2007, he has been the Minister of Culture and National...

16 November 2007 – present Civic Platform
Civic Platform
Civic Platform , abbreviated to PO, is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Poland. It has been the major coalition partner in Poland's government since the 2007 general election, with party leader Donald Tusk as Prime Minister of Poland and Bronisław Komorowski as President...

Donald Tusk
Donald Tusk
Donald Franciszek Tusk is a Polish politician who has been Prime Minister of Poland since 2007. He was a co-founder and is chairman of the Civic Platform party....


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