Zbigniew Romaszewski

{{Short description|Polish politician (1940–2014)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Zbigniew Romaszewski

| image = Zbigniew Romaszewski VII kadencja Kancelaria Senatu.JPG

|office = Vice Marshal of the Senate

|alongside = Marek Aleksander Ziółkowski
Krystyna Bochenek

|term_start = 28 November 2007

|term_end = 7 November 2011

|predecessor = Ryszard Legutko
Maciej Płażyński
Krzysztof Putra
Marek Aleksander Ziółkowski

|successor = Maria Pańczyk-Pozdziej
Jan Wyrowiński
Stanisław Karczewski

|office2 = Member of Senate

|term_start2 = 4 July 1989

|term_end2 = 7 November 2011

| party = Law and Justice

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|1|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Warsaw, Poland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|2|13|1940|1|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Warsaw, Poland{{cite news|url=http://www.rmf24.pl/fakty/news-zbigniew-romaszewski-nie-zyje,nId,1104667 |title=Zbigniew Romaszewski nie żyje |access-date=13 February 2014 |date=13 February 2014 |publisher=RMF FM }}

| alma_mater = University of Warsaw

}}

Zbigniew Jan Romaszewski (2 January 1940 – 13 February 2014) was a Polish conservative politician, senator since 1989, and human rights activist.

After the June 1976 protests he was cofounder of assurance to workers prosecuted by communist regime. He was one of the founders of the Workers' Defence Committee (KOR). He became Chief of Bureau of Intervention of the Committee for Social Self-defence KOR in 1977.

In 1979 knew Andrej Sacharov. In 1980 he was the founder of the Helsinki Committee in Poland. In 1980-1981 he was chief of Commission of Intervention and Law-abidingness of Solidarity. During martial law in Poland he established independent Radio Solidarity. In 1982 he was arrested and jailed by the Communist regime until 1984.

In 2007 he was elected to the Senate from the electoral list of Law and Justice. From 28 November 2007 he was deputy marshal of Polish Senate.

He died at age 74 in a hospital in Warsaw, after a week of induced coma.