Zbigniew Gorzelańczyk (31 July 1944 – 6 February 1996) was a Polish politician, and

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deputy for two terms until his death in 1996. Gorzelańczyk graduated from the Academy of Physical Education in Wroclaw in 1968, and the Political University in

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in 1983. He was elected twice in the Leszno-Zielona Góra and Leszno districts of the

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. Gorzelańczyk and parliament member Marek Wielgus were killed in the 1996 crash of

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in the

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. He was posthumously awarded the following: POL_Polonia_Restituta_Kawalerski_BAR

Knight's Cross of the

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