Czesław Janicki

Czesław Andrzej Janicki (born 19 July 1926 in Korytnica, died 29 December 2012 in Poznań) was a Polish scientist, zootechnician, teacher, and academic lecturer, professor of agricultural sciences, Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister (1989–1990), and a member of the Sejm during its 10th term.

Biography

Early life During World War II, beginning in July 1944, Czesław Andrzej Janicki worked as a forced laborer in Gądki near Poznań, digging rifle trenches and anti-tank ditches. From August of that year, he was imprisoned for three months in the penal-investigation camp in Żabikowo. On 5 January 1945, he was transferred to trench-digging duties near Wieluń. He authored several publications on the treatment of dairy cattle. In 1997, he was honored with the PTZ Honorary Badge. In 1984, he became the university's vice-rector, but following amendments to the Higher Education Act in 1985, the minister dismissed him from this position, deeming him "unsuitable for socialist student education". He authored publications such as Animal Breeding (1973) and The Relationship Between Beta-Lactoglobulins and Certain Milk Productivity Traits in Cows (1973). In 1990, he supervised two doctoral dissertations: An Attempt to Analyze the Assessment of Bulls' Breeding Value Estimated by the CC Method Based on Test Herds and Large-Scale Pedigree Herds by Ireneusz Dymarski, and Estimating Genetic Correlations and Heritability of Milk Traits in Black-and-White Cattle by Tomasz Szwaczkowski. By the end of his term, he was a member of the Christian-People's Parliamentary Club, associated with the . As a member of parliament, he worked in the and two extraordinary commissions. On 12 September 1989, Czesław Janicki was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's cabinet (from 20 December 1989, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Food Economy).

During his time in office, there were increasing protests by farmers. On 27 June 1990, a group of farmers began occupying the Ministry of Agriculture building. Two days later, in the early morning hours, Prime Minister Mazowiecki decided to order a police assault to end the occupation. Czesław Janicki opposed this decision, which led to a conflict between him and Tadeusz Mazowiecki. On July 6, Czesław Janicki was dismissed from his position. was appointed as the interim head of the ministry. On 14 September 1990, Prime Minister Mazowiecki appointed as the new Minister of Agriculture. In 1991, Czesław Janicki did not seek re-election to parliament. The decoration ceremony took place on 11 November 2012.

He was also awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1989), the (1984), and the Medal of the 40th Anniversary of People's Poland (1984).

On 10 May 2016, during a ceremony attended by and the widow of the professor, a commemorative plaque was unveiled in his honor at the National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa.

Private life link=https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gr%C3%B3b prof. Czes%C5%82awa Janickiego.jpg Grave of Czesław Janicki at the St. John Vianney parish cemetery in Poznań He was the son of Andrzej and Agnieszka. In 1952, Czesław Janicki married Cecylia Adamczewska; they had two daughters, Ewa and Barbara. He lived in Poznań.