Andrzej Michałowski

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Andrzej Zbigniew Michalowski (born 16 November 1946 in Bielawa) - Polish opposition activist was raised in Dzierżoniów, machine manager at the Port of Gdansk Department of Shipping Services. Curriculum vitae

He graduated from the Port of Gdansk Port of Science.

In August 1980, one of the initiators of the strike at his workplace. Since September 1980 member of the Solidarity Trade Union, chairman of the Faculty Committee, and in July 1981 delegate to the First General Assembly of the Delegates of the Gdansk Region, Vice-Chairman of the Section for National Navigation and Maritime Economy. Between 14-19 December 1981 co-organizer of the strike in the port. In April 1982 co-founder of the Regional Coordinating Commission "S". May 21, 1982, then convicted by the Naval Court in Gdynia to be sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment. He did not return from the pass. Seeking a watchlist. On August 3, 1983 the Gdynia Naval Court, under the Amnesty Act, reduced the penalty of deprivation of liberty by half. On August 10, 1984, the Gdynia Naval Court granted a custodial sentence. On December 22, 1984, the court of the Pomeranian Military District in Bydgoszcz canceled the search with a watchlist.

Since 1987 he has been living in exile in Norway (his wife died there), returned to Poland in 1990, and has been pursuing his own business. In 2015 he published his book "Solidarity". Facts, betrayals and hopes.

In 2006, he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

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