Ludwika Wujec

Opposition activist in communist Poland

Graduate of the University of Lodz, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and the University of Warsaw.

In 1976, she became a collaborator of the Workers' Defence Committee and then of the Workers' Defence Committee and KSS "KOR"; she organised support for repressed workers from, among others, Ursus and Radom, and edited the "Robotnik" magazine. In 1980, she joined "Solidarność", and in 1981 she started working for the "Solidarność" Press Agency. During martial law, she was interned and released in March 1982. She began cooperating with the Primate's Committee for Aid to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Their Families and the secret structures of the union. From 1984 to 1989, she was a member of the editorial board of the underground "Tygodnik Mazowsze".

In the late 1980s, she was, among other things, an assistant to Tadeusz Mazowiecki during the Round Table Talks and deputy director of the Office of the Civic Committee to Lech Wałęsa. From 1990, she was active in the Civic Action Democratic Movement, the Democratic Union and the Freedom Union, serving for a year as a deputy secretary general of the UD and UW. From 1995 to 2002, she was a a secretary in the Warsaw local government and a member of the Warsaw-Centre Municipality Board. In 1998, she also became a councillor for the Warsaw district. She retired in 2002.