Stanisław Wyganowski

Stanisław Wyganowski (; 7 December 1919 – 13 October 2017) was a politician, economist and urban planner. From 1990 to 1994, he was the mayor of Warsaw, Poland, and in 1990 was also the voivode of the Warsaw Voivodeship. His father came from noble family from the clan of Łodzia, and was a member of Sejm of Poland from 1935 to 1938. He also had a sister Zofia.

In September 1939, Wyganowski served in the Polish Armed Forces during the German invasion of Poland in the Second World War. Later during the conflict, he also served in the Home Army resistance, took part in the Operation Tempest, and was in the 2nd Warsaw Infantry Division of the Polish People's Army.

Wyganowski graduated from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics with a Master's Degree in economics. In 1950, he began working in city planning institutions in Warsaw, including for the Institute of Housing Construction, the Institute of Urbanistics and Architecture, the Warsaw South–East Project Bureau, and the Warsaw Voivodeship Urbanistics Workshop. In the early 1970s, he was a director of the Institute of Urbanistics of Architecture. From 1968 to 1972, he was a member of the Spacial Development Comittie, and the Architecture and Urbanistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1968 to 1973 he was a member of the upper management of the Polish Urbanists Society, and became its chairperson in 1997. From 1974 to 1980 he worked in Algeria, where he was part of the team that designed urbanist plans of Algiers. From 1980, he was a docent in the Institute of Environmental Management.

In the 1980s, he was an activist of the Solidarity trade union.

In 2014, he had endorsed Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz in her re-election campaign for the mayor of Warsaw.

Wyganowski died on 13 October 2017 in Warsaw, and was buried at the cemetery in Józefów.

Private life From 1940, he was married to Elżbieta Targowska (1918–2001). Together they had 3 children.

Published works Jutro wielka Warszawa (1993, Związek Dzielnic-Gmin Warszawy)

Awards and decorations Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2015) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1994) Gold Cross of Merit Medal for Long Marital Life (1995) Cross of the Home Army Titile of the Honorary Citizen of Warsaw (2012)