Tadeusz Fiszbach

Tadeusz Rudolf Fiszbach (born 4 November 1935 in Dobraczyn) is a Polish politician, diplomat and academic teacher. Between 1975 and 1985 he was the of the Polish United Workers' Party in Gdańsk, and member of the Sejm between 1976 and 1985, and between 1989 and 1991.

Biography Fiszbach was born in the village of Dobraczyn in Lwów Voivodeship. He was a son of engineer Rudolf Fiszbach and teacher Bronisława Banach.

In 1945, the family moved to Kartuzy and lived in villa named "Erem" (The Hermitage) previously occupied by Aleksander Majkowski. In Kartuzy, Fiszbach graduated from the primary school, and in 1952 he graduated from the 1st Hieronim Derdowski High School . Between 1963 and 1967, he studied economy in . In the same year, he joined the commission of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) established to explain the causes and course of social conflicts in the history of the People's Republic of Poland. He was the opponent of the martial law in Poland, which led to his removal from state positions. He was delegated to Helsinki as embassy counselor. During the 1989–1991 term of the Sejm, he worked in the Constitutional Committee. He took the position of Deputy Marshal of the Sejm. In July 1989, Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Solidarity, proposed Fiszbach to run against Wojciech Jaruzelski for the office of president, but Fiszbach refused. In 1989, Fiszbach founded the Polish Social Democratic Union, which proved unsuccessful and short-lived. By the end of his term, he became an independent. In the 1991 Polish parliamentary election, he unsuccessfully ran for re-election from the Gdańsk Voivodeship on behalf of a small electoral committee "Our Poland - List of Non-Partisans" .

In the 1990s, Fiszbach became the worker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as a commercial counselor at the Polish Embassy in Oslo. Between 2001 and 2005, he was the Polish ambassador to Latvia. He became a professor in the . In the 2010 Polish presidential election, he endorsed Jarosław Kaczyński. In the 2025 Polish presidential election, he endorsed Karol Nawrocki.

In the film of Andrzej Wajda Wałęsa: Man of Hope, actor Adam Woronowicz played the role of Tadeusz Fiszbach.

Personal life In 1960, Tadeusz Fiszbach married Hanna Kapela. They have a son and a daughter.

Awards Commander's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta (2014) Order of the Banner of Labour, 2nd class Order of the Three Stars, 3rd class (2005, Latvia) Golden Medal of Merit for National Defence Medal "For Merit to the Medical Academy in Gdańsk" (1975)