The funeral Jan Kulczyk attracted crowds of visitors. “You were an artist business and life” – Virtual Poland

The Cemetery Jeżyckim in Poznan rested on Wednesday, Jan Kulczyk. Considered the richest Pole entrepreneur, he died suddenly on July 29 at the Vienna hospital at the age of 65 years.

President Bronislaw Komorowski wrote about the dead, it was one of the greatest visionaries of Polish entrepreneurship, a generous patron of culture and the success of Polish Ambassador change. Former Minister of Culture Waldemar Dabrowski said during the ceremony: the first artist of business and life. The artist died less – is work.

The funeral was attended by representatives of politics, culture, science and business. Among them Anna Komorowska, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Lech Walesa, former president of Germany, Horst Koehler, as well as minister of culture and national heritage Margaret Omilanowska. According to the organizers, the late entrepreneur żegnało more than a thousand invited guests. Jan Kulczyk came to rest in the family tomb.

Letter to the children Jan Kulczyk, Dominica and Sebastian, read at the beginning of Mass. Burial in the church. St. St. Joseph Hill. Wojciech Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Jacek Michalowski.

“The sudden departure of one of the greatest visionaries of Polish entrepreneurship, a man greatly deserved for its development, a generous patron of culture and the global success of Polish Ambassador transition is a painful loss for all of us. I’m sure that his ability to make full momentum of economic challenges, and also socially responsible, will find worthy imitators and followers primarily in the state people “- wrote Bronislaw Komorowski.

” I’ve always watched with satisfaction that the success he had suffered and fame that surrounded him not deprived him of engaging modesty, kindness and empathy – the characteristics of how rare and how precious. I am sure that the Member father will be remembered as a person of great stature, an entrepreneur ready to help others and engaging in promoting the important aims and ideas “- added the President.

Former Minister of Culture Waldemar Dabrowski, speaking at the end of the Mass, said the dead: He was a great patriot – Pole who proudly carried Polishness all continents of the world, while the man open to otherness. The separation was looking for values, which allowed him to his Polish continually do better.

– great you contributed to build this sense better, prettier, wiser Polish, which were both great ambassador on all continents. You have been artist business and life. The artist dies less. Is work – said Dabrowski.

During the ceremony in the church, Jan Kulczyk also said goodbye to former President Lech Walesa. – Every movement of our relationship increasingly convinced me to how great you are, man. How good you are, man. How much do you good – is only one God knows. Is anyone able to replace you? I doubt it – he said.

In setting a funeral Mass attended by eminent Polish artists, among them Janusz Olejniczak, Beata Rybotycka, Jan Englert, Grazyna Barszczewska and Beethoven Academy Orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk.

The church and its surroundings, as well as a tent for several hundred guests, before which set screens with the transmission of the Mass, were unavailable for bystanders. The ceremony at the Church on the Hill St. Wojciech watched from behind barriers, many of Poznań. Many people also gathered at the fence and gates jeżyckiego cemetery.

Jan Kulczyk was born in 1950. He came from Bydgoszcz, was the most active in the international arena Polish businessman. According to the latest list published by “Wprost” was the richest Pole with assets valued at 15.1 billion zł.

He has participated in major transactions and ownership transformations in Poland, initiated and implemented major projects in the field of public-private partnership. He was an entrepreneur operating in the energy sector, oil and gas, mineral resources, infrastructure and property.

He was also a philanthropist, patron of culture and sport. Kulczyk Holding announced that the entrepreneur died as a result of postoperative complications. In a hospital in Vienna, she was in connection with the treatment of oncology.

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