Ludwik Dorn


Ludwik Stanisław Dorn is a Polish conservative politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007.

Biography

He was born Ludwik Dornbaum, to Jewish parents, Henryk Dornbaum, a socialist activist and Alina née Kugler, a doctor. All of his father's family was murdered during the Holocaust. In the 1960s Dornbaum family changed their name to Dorn. He was raised agnostic, but he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of 51.
From 31 October 2005 to 7 February 2007 he was Minister of Interior and Administration, resigned after conflict with the Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. Elected a Marshal of the Sejm on 27 April 2007, with 235 votes, after Marek Jurek's resignation.
On 4 November 2011 he, along with 15 other supporters of the dismissed PiS MEP Zbigniew Ziobro, left Law and Justice on ideological grounds to form a breakaway group, United Poland.
Graduated with a degree in sociology from Warsaw University in 1978.