Grażyna Gęsicka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grażyna Gęsicka

Polish politician and sociologist

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 10-Apr-2010

Profession: politician, sociologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Grazyna Gesicka (13 December 1951 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former (2006 - 2007) minister of Regional Development in Marcinkiewicz's and Jaroslaw Kaczynski's government.
From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus. She was born in Warsaw.
In 1974 she graduated from Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and in 1985 received her doctorate. She was a former member of the Polish Sociological Society and the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise. She was a speaker of English and French. She was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.
On 25 April, she was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery Headquarters Military Cemetery in Warsaw. On 16 April 2010, Gesicka was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.