page_title: Paweł Adamowicz
section_title: Funeral
hierarchical_section_title: Paweł Adamowicz / Funeral
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pożegnanie Pawła Adamowicza w Europejskim Centrum Solidarnosci - trumna z ciałem Prezydenta wystawiona w ogrodzie zimowym ECS
context_page_description: Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the city mayor of Gdańsk from 1998 until his assassination in 2019.
  Adamowicz was one of the organizers of the 1988 Polish strikes before becoming the head of the strike committee. In 1990, he was elected to the Gdańsk City Council, chairing the body from 1994 during his second term and holding this post until 1998. He was elected Mayor of Gdańsk in 1998 and reelected in 2002 with 72% of the vote. In 2018, he was reelected as an Independent. He was known as a liberal, progressive figure, speaking in support of LGBT rights, immigration, and minority groups such as Kashubians.
  On 13 January 2019, Adamowicz was stabbed during a live charity event The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity’s 27. Grand Finale in Gdańsk by 27-year-old Stefan Wilmont, a former inmate, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Adamowicz died the following day from his injuries, at the age of 53.
context_section_description: On 18 January 2019, Adamowicz's coffin was decorated with white flowers and draped with the flag of Gdańsk, before being driven in a hearse from the European Solidarity Centre in the city, past schools, monuments and other places significant to the dead mayor's life. It was watched by thousands of people on screen. When the hearse reached the Church of St Mary, the city's main basilica, the coffin was brought into the church. After a mass, Adamowicz was cremated.
  On 19 January, the main funeral service was held at St Mary's Church, Gdańsk. Notable people who attended included the President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, former President of Poland, communist oppositionist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa, former Polish Presidents Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Bronisław Komorowski, and former German President Joachim Gauck. Thousands more Poles watched the service on screens. At the end of the service, Adamowicz's ashes were laid to rest in one of the chapels of St Mary's Church in Gdańsk.
caption: Polish Scouts guarding the coffin of Paweł Adamowicz at the European Solidarity Centre prior to the funeral
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