Antoni Pietkiewicz

Antoni Kazimierz Pietkiewicz (; born 24 December 1948) is a Polish engineer, businessperson, and politician. He was the voivode of Kalisz Voivodeship in Poland from 1990 to 1991, and the voivode of Masovian Voivodeship from 1999 to 2001.

Biography Antoni Pietkiewicz was born on 24 December 1948 in Kalisz, Poland. His parents were Feliks and Janina Pietkiewicz, and he had a younger brother Jerzy. In 1978, he granted from the Faculty of the Power Engineering of the Łódź University of Technology, and later received the postgraduate degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

In the 1970s, Pietkiewicz was an activist in the Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights and the Workers' Defence Committee. From 1979 to 1980, he co-published newsletter Wolne Słowo , and in 1980, he became a member of the Solidarity trade union. He led in the creation of its division in Kalisz, and was a board member of its South Greater Poland region. He was a delegate at the first National Congress of Delegates of the Solidarity in Gdańsk.

From August 990 to December 1991 he was the voivode of Kalisz Voivodeship, from 1991 to 1992, he was the deputy director of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, and from 1992 to 1995, he was the deputy chairperson of the Supreme Audit Office. From 1 January 1999 to 21 October 2001, he was the voivode of the Masovian Voivodeship. From 2002 to 2003, he was the deputy marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship Sejmik.

Awards and decorations Commandor of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000) Commandor of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2006) Cross of Freedom and Solidarity (2016) Meritorious Activist of Culture Badge (2001)