Aleksander Szczygło
- Birth Date:
- 27.10.1963
- Death date:
- 10.04.2010
- Length of life:
- 46
- Days since birth:
- 22110
- Years since birth:
- 60
- Days since death:
- 5143
- Years since death:
- 14
- Extra names:
- Aleksander Szczygło
- Categories:
- Minister, Nominee, Politician, Victim of Catastrophe
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery
Aleksander Marek Szczygło (27 October 1963 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician. He was first elected to Polish parliament Sejm in 2001 and subsequently reelected on 25 September 2005 with 19,006 votes in 35th electoral district (Olsztyn). Both times he was a candidate of the Law and Justice party.
From 7 February 2007 until 16 November 2007 he was Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Jarosław Kaczyński.
From 15 January 2009 until his death he was the chief of the National Security Bureau.
He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
In 2010, Szczygło was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He had previously been awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2009 and the Ukrainian Order of Merit 2nd Class.
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10.04.2010 | The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010 when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board