Tadeusz Mazowiecki (born 1927) - politician and journalist, lawyer. One of the advisors to the Solidarity trade union in 1980, later editor of the weekly 'Solidarność'. An active participant in the Round Table talks of 1989. First Prime Minister of the 3rd Republic of Poland (1989-90). Co-founder and one-time leader of the Democratic Union Party, which later became the Freedom Union. He was the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights to the former Yugoslavia in 1992-1995. In 1995 Tadeusz Mazowiecki received the Order of the White Eagle, and in 1998 he was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur. In 2010 he was granted the honorary citizenship of the city of Gdańsk and the town of Słubice.
