Krzysztof Wyszkowski

Krzysztof Wyszkowski – born on 10 November 1947 in Mrągowo, since 1963 working in Olsztyn in various positions. Since 1975, he has lived in the Tricity.

Since 1977, a co-worker of the KOR Social Self-Defence Committee, co-founder and one of three signatories of the Declaration of the Coastal Free Trade Unions (29 April 1978), publisher of underground periodicals and non-serial publications  (1977–1980), independent pressman, repeatedly detained and repressed for his anti-communist activities. A participant in the strike in the Gdańsk Shipyard in August 1980. In 1981, the secretary of the editorial office of “Tygodnik Solidarność” (“Solidarity Weekly”).

After the declaration of martial law (13 December 1981), he was interned, in August 1982 he escaped from the detention centre and was arrested in July 1983 and later released under an amnesty. In 1984, he co-founded Grupa Publicystów Politycznych (Political Commentator Group) and the “Dziekania” Political Thought Club. In May and August 1988, he participated in strikes in the Gdańsk Shipyard. He was an observer at the Round Table talks, but was critical of the agreement; from October 1989, he was head of the political section of Tygodnik Solidarność (Solidarity Weekly), when Jarosław Kaczyński was editor-in-chief. In 1990–1992, he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Congress, supported Lech Wałęsa’s presidential campaign, and in 1991 became an advisor to Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. In 1992, he was an advisor to Prime Minister Jan Olszewski.

In 2016 awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta Grand Cross and in 2018 the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity.