Piotr Madajczyk

Professor Piotr Madajczyk, born 1959, work at Institute of Political Studies – Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw/Poland. In the Institute he is a Head of the Department for German-Polish Relation. Author of scientific and popular books and articles.

After graduation I worked in the Archive of the New Documentation in Warsaw. I also spent a year at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz/Germany, collecting materials for the thesis about the politics of Gustav Stresemann.

In the years 1987-1989 I have worked at the West Institute in Poznan, defending in 1989 at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan the thesis “Tradition and modern politics. Politics and political concepts of Gustav Stresemann against Poland (1915-1929)”.

Since 1990 I started to work at the Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw, in the Department for German-Polish Relation. My research interests included at this time issues of national minorities and Polish-German relations in the postwar period. From 1991 to 1994 I worked in the Minorities Department of the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Arts, in the final period as Acting Director.

My thematic priority is: national minorities (history and actual problems), history of forced migration in Poland and Middle-East Europe, contemporary Polish history, German-Polish relations (contemporary history and actual problems). In the last years I worked at the problem of building of modern nations in Europe (social engineering), genocide and biography of Raphael Lemkin.

I was a member of the scientific board in the German “Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation” (Berlin), and since 2016 member of the Foundation Board in the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation.