At the age of 64, Jerzy Czerwiński, a member of the Opole regional assembly, has died from PiS. He was a member of parliament for the 4th term and a senator for the 9th and 10th term. “I will remember him as a patriot, a man of great honesty, modesty and great diligence,” wrote PiS senator Marek Pęk about Czerwiński.
Jerzy Czerwiński (photo from 2019) /Rafał Guz /PAP
The death of Jerzy Czerwiński was announced on Monday by, among others, Szymon Ogłaza, the marshal of the Opole voivodeship, and the Senate.
“Today we received unexpected news that Jerzy Czerwiński, a councilor of the Opole province for the current term, has died” – it was emphasized on the website opolskie.pl. “A teacher by profession, a member of the Sejm of the 4th term and a senator of the 9th and 10th term. He had been a member of the provincial assembly before, from 2006 to 2014. Honor to his memory” – we read.
“The provincial councilor Jerzy Czerwiński, a former member of parliament and senator of the Republic of Poland, has died. Reliable and always prepared for discussions, always acting with concern for the inhabitants of the region. Honor to his memory!” – wrote Szymon Ogłaza, the marshal of the Opole province, on Facebook.
The Senate website also reports that Jerzy Czerwiński, senator of the 9th and 10th term, candidate of the PiS Electoral Committee, elected from the Opole district, died on August 12, 2024. In the Senate, he was a member of the National Defense and Legislative Committees.
PiS senator Marek Pęk also informed about the councilor’s death. “I will remember him as a great patriot, a man of great honesty, modesty and great diligence. Jurek, rest in peace,” the senator wrote on platform X.
Jerzy Czerwiński was born on June 19, 1960 in Niemodlin (Opole Province). He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, as well as postgraduate studies at the Pedagogical University in Opole and at the Silesian University of Technology. He became involved in politics in 1994, working as a councilor of the Prudnik commune, and from 1998 he served as a councilor of the Prudnik County Council.
In the 4th term of the Sejm, he served as deputy chairman of the National and Ethnic Minorities Committee and a member of the local government and regional policy committee. In 2015-2017, he was a member of the Senate Budget and Public Finance Committee.
Since 2017, he has served on the Senate National Defense Committee and the Legislative Committee. In the 2023 elections, he lost his senatorial mandate, losing to the Senate Pact candidate Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz (KO).
In the 2024 elections, he was elected as a councilor of the Opole Voivodeship Assembly.
The politician initially belonged to the Movement for the Republic, later he was active in the Movement for the Reconstruction of Poland. In 1997 he joined the Catholic-National Movement, and in 2001 he ran in the parliamentary elections from the list of the League of Polish Families. Since 2006 he has been a member of Law and Justice.
He was a member of the “Prudnica Land” Association.
