Jerzy Bahr | |
Term Start: | 1996 |
Term End: | 2001 |
Predecessor: | Stefan Meller |
Successor: | Wojciech Zajączkowski |
Term Start2: | 2001 |
Term End2: | 2005 |
Predecessor2: | Eufemia Teichmann |
Successor2: | Janusz Skolimowski |
Term Start3: | 1996 |
Term End3: | 2001 |
Predecessor3: | Jerzy Kozakiewicz |
Successor3: | Marek Ziółkowski |
Birth Date: | 23 April 1944 |
Birth Place: | Kraków, General Government |
Death Place: | Kraków, Poland |
Nationality: | Polish |
Profession: | Diplomat |
Office: | Poland Ambassador to Russia |
Termstart: | 2006 |
Termend: | 2010 |
Appointer: | Lech Kaczyński |
1Blankname: | President |
1Namedata: | Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev |
Office2: | Poland Ambassador to Lithuania |
Appointer2: | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
1Blankname2: | President |
1Namedata2: | Valdas Adamkus Rolandas Paksas Valdas Adamkus |
Office3: | Poland Ambassador to Ukraine |
Appointer3: | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
1Blankname3: | President |
1Namedata3: | Leonid Kuchma |
Office4: | Poland Consul General to Kaliningrad |
Appointer4: | Krzysztof Skubiszewski |
Termstart4: | 1992 |
Termend4: | 1994 |
Predecessor4: | Marek Krajewski |
Successor4: | Henryk Piaszyk |
Jerzy Artur Bahr[1] (23 April 1944 – 25 July 2016) was a Polish diplomat.
Bahr graduated from sociology at the Jagiellonian University (1967). In 1974, he began his diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1992 to 1994 he was Consul-General in Kaliningrad, from 1997 to 2001 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, from 2001 to 2005 to Lithuania, and from 2006 to 2010 he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to the Russian Federation.[2] [3] Bahr died of cancer on 25 July 2016 at the age of 72.[4]