predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party profession birth_date order term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
bronisław , bronisław komorowski , wojciech olejniczak , genowefa wiśniowska komorowski józef oleksy janusz dobrosz , jarosław kalinowski radosław sikorski ryszard kalisz 10 april 2010 wrocław , poland smolensk , russia polish -rrb- social democracy of the republic of poland -lrb- 1990 united -- 1999 -rrb- democratic left alliance -lrb- 1999 -- -rrb- worker left and democrats -lrb- caucus , 2007 -- -rrb- 's party -lrb- 1973 -- 1990 economist 09 april 1952 minister national defense of the third republic of poland acting minister of of internal affairs and administration of the republic of poland national vice-marshal of the sejm of the republic of poland defense of poland 9th minister of october 6 , 2007 19 , 2001 april 21 , 2004 november małgorzata szmajdzińska jerzy szmajdzinski.jpg jerzy szmajdziński
 october 10 , 2010 serving alongside : jarosław kalinowski stefan niesiołowski 31 krzysztof putra , 2005 may 2 , 2004 april jerzy andrzej szmajdziński
jerzy szmajdziński

jerzy andrzej szmajdziński -lrb- , april 9 , 1952 -- april 10 , 2010 -rrb- was a polish politician who was a vice-marshal of polish sejm and previously served as minister of defence .
he was a candidate for president of poland in the 2010 election .
szmajdziński graduated from the wrocław university of economics .
in the 1970s and 1980s he was an activist for the federation of socialist unions of polish youth and the socialist union of polish youth , serving as its chairman from 1986 -- 1989 .
he remained a member of polish united workers ' party from 1973 until its end in 1990 .
later , he entered the leadership position of the social democracy of the republic of poland party .
in december 1999 , he became the deputy chairman of the democratic left alliance -lrb- sld -rrb- .
he became a member of the sejm in 1990 , and in his second term szmajdziński was chairman of the national defense committee and in the third term a deputy chairman of that commission .
he was minister of national defence from october 19 , 2001 to 2005 .
he was elected to sejm on september 25 , 2005 gaining 20,741 votes in 1 legnica district , candidating from sld list .
on a national sld convention in december 2009 he was chosen as the party 's candidate in the 2010 presidential elections in poland .
his candidacy received 11 % of the votes in march 's pre-election poll .
szmajdziński died , on the day after his 58th birthday , in the plane crash that also involved president lech kaczyński and 94 others .
