Ludwik Dorn

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ludwik Dorn

| smallimage = Ludwik Dorn Sejm 2014(cropped).JPG

| caption = Dorn in 2014

| order = Marshal of the Sejm

| term_start = 27 April 2007

| term_end = 4 November 2007

| predecessor = Marek Jurek

| successor = Bronisław Komorowski

|office2 = Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

|term_start2 = 31 October 2005

|term_end2 = 27 April 2007

|vicepresident2 =

|viceprimeminister2 =

|deputy2 =

|president2 = Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Lech Kaczyński

|primeminister2 = Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Jarosław Kaczyński

|predecessor2 =

|successor2 =

| office3 = Minister of the Interior and Administration

| term_start3 = 31 October 2005

| term_end3 = 7 February 2007

| vicepresident3 =

| viceprimeminister3 =

| deputy3 =

| president3 = Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Lech Kaczyński

| primeminister3 = Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Jarosław Kaczyński

| predecessor3 = Ryszard Kalisz

| successor3 = Janusz Kaczmarek

| birth_date = {{birth date|1954|06|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland

| birthname = Ludwik Dornbaum

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|4|7|1954|06|5|df=y}}

| death_place = Warsaw, Poland

| nationality = Polish

| constituency =

| party = Law and Justice (2001−2008)
Poland Plus (2010)
Law and Justice (2010−2012)
United Poland (2012–2014)
Independent (2014–2022)

| spouse = Izabela Śmieszek

| profession = Sociologist

| signature =

| footnotes =

}}

Ludwik Stanisław Dorn ({{IPA|pol|ˈludvʲik ˈdɔrn|}}, 5 June 1954 – 7 April 2022){{cite web|title=Ludwik Dorn nie żyje. Były wicepremier i marszałek Sejmu miał 67 lat|url=https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2022-04-07/nie-zyje-ludwik-dorn-byly-marszalek-sejmu-mial-67-lat/|language=pl|date=7 April 2022|access-date=7 April 2022}} was a Polish conservative politician, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007.

Biography

Dorn was born Ludwik Dornbaum,{{cite web|url=http://katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl/showDetails.do?lastName=dorn&idx=&katalogId=0&subpageKatalogId=0&pageNo=1&osobaId=6938&|title=Ludwik Stanisław Dorn|accessdate=30 July 2014|work=Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej|language=pl|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120718133432/http://katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl/showDetails.do?lastName=dorn&idx=&katalogId=0&subpageKatalogId=0&pageNo=1&osobaId=6938&|archivedate=18 July 2012|df=mdy-all}} to Polish-Jewish parents{{cite web|url=http://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/586936_Twarze_trzeciego_blizniaka.html|title=Twarze trzeciego bliźniaka|accessdate=30 July 2014|date=13 December 2005|work=archiwum.rp.pl|language=pl}} Henryk Dornbaum, a socialist activist and Alina née Kugler, a doctor. All of his father's family was murdered during the Holocaust.{{cite web|url=http://wyborcza.pl/duzyformat/1,127291,2991316.html|title=Sylwetka pochyła|author=Jacek Hugo Bager|accessdate=30 July 2014|date=30 October 2005|language=pl}}

In the 1960s Dornbaum family changed their name to Dorn. He was raised agnostic, but he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 51. Dorn graduated with a degree in sociology from Warsaw University in 1978.{{cite web| url = http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=42882 | title = In the spotlight: Ludwik Dorn | accessdate =29 July 2010 | date = 13 October 2008 |work=Warsaw Business Journal}}

From 31 October 2005 to 7 February 2007 he was Minister of Interior and Administration, resigned after conflict with the Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński.{{cite web| url = http://gulfnews.com/news/world/other-world/second-polish-minister-resigns-after-clash-with-pm-1.160373 | title = Second Polish minister resigns after clash with PM | accessdate =29 July 2010 | date = 28 February 2007 |work=Gulf News}} Elected a Marshal of the Sejm on 27 April 2007, with 235 votes, after Marek Jurek's resignation.

On 4 November 2011, he, along with 15 other supporters of the dismissed PiS MEP Zbigniew Ziobro,{{cite news |title=Party members 'furious' following conservative defeat |url=http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/56604,Party-members-furious-following-conservatives-defeat |newspaper=TheNews.pl |date=11 October 2011 |accessdate=31 May 2012 |archive-date=10 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310074726/http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/56604,Party-members-furious-following-conservatives-defeat |url-status=dead }} left Law and Justice on ideological grounds to form a breakaway group, United Poland.{{cite news |title=Conservative MPs form 'Poland United' breakaway group after dismissals |url=http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/58134,Conservative-MPs-form-Poland-United-breakaway-group-after-dismissals |newspaper=TheNews.pl |date=8 November 2011 |accessdate=31 May 2012 |archive-date=13 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913114811/http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/58134,Conservative-MPs-form-Poland-United-breakaway-group-after-dismissals |url-status=dead }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20030109213846/http://www.ludwikdorn.pl/ Official website]
[https://archive.today/20060408164004/http://www.sejm.gov.pl/poslowie/posel5/060.htm Sejm page]
[http://ludzie.wprost.pl/sylwetka/?O=34661 Ludwik Dorn in the Wprost debatase]
[http://www.mswia.gov.pl/portal/pl/2/4269/ Ludwik Dorn in the Polish government website]