Too bad Mr. Gaetano – Guest Krakow

Chairman of the Salt Mine “Wieliczka” was removed from office before the end of the term. It’s a shame because I managed the famous mine.

Treatment of managerial positions in state-owned companies as political booty is nothing new. After successive changes of power in the country occur sooner or later changes to the boards of state-owned companies. Some dismissed before the end of the term of office people and others on the occasion of new competitions for positions.

This time it fell to Gaetano d’Obyrn, from March 2009. Szefującego board of saline Wieliczka. Was canceled before the Supervisory Board and 1 February will say goodbye to the chair of the President.

In terms of political d’Obyrn was not a man of nowhere. Before becoming the Mine was for many years a prominent activist in Krakow’s Civic Platform, an active alderman. For sure it mattered when voting on the Supervisory Board of the company at a time when the Minister of the Treasury Aleksander Grad PO. D’Obyrn won while only the third contest for another term President. The previous two were invalidated. The most votes was in them achieve the long-lasting head of the Wieliczka salt mine, Zbigniew Zarębski. Because he was already an activist of the Center Alliance, could be aptly named thorn in the authorities of that time. Zarębski certainly hurt the thesis drawn up in 2008. Expert report, which showed that blocking by the then bosses of mine controlled flow of water through the dam on the sidewalk, “Mina” may threaten a result of flooding of the mine.

Recall that in 1992. in the area of ​​”Mina” there is a rapid and uncontrolled flow of saline water, which made a lot of damage underground and on the surface. Wieliczka ceased to, among other things drive trains, because fell to the ground under the tracks. Wave of water inhibited by building a dam, through which, however, bled excess collecting behind the dam brine.

Authorities mine disagreed in 2008. With categorical conclusions of the report of experts, but Zbigniew Zarębski in the third contest has not started.

Meanwhile, Gaetano d’Obyrn proved to be a very good host of the Wieliczka mine. Under his rule this unique industrial monument, inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage, visited a record number of people. In 2015,. Lifts rolled off down the mine 1.39 million people! That’s about 42 percent. more than in 2009.

Not everyone realizes that in order to enable visitors to quietly visit the old chamber and sidewalks mining, the bottom must continue daily work on dewatering the mine, protecting corridors and chambers, elimination of pits that They are not historic. Here d’Obyrn who is an expert, a researcher Cracow University of Technology with a doctorate in hydrogeology and habilitation of mining, with great success oversaw the technical work.

The beginnings of a good organization was the Boy Scouts. It’s erstwhile “Kajo” tribal Strain “Krivan” at Primary School No. 8 in Zakopane, activist of the independent Circles of Scout Instructors them. Andrew Małkowski, team KIHAM Zakopane, a participant of the jubilee rally of the 70th anniversary of scouting in Krakow’s Blonie Park in September 1981. And scout the “White Service” during the pilgrimage of John Paul Czestochowa in 1983.

It is a pity so Mr. Cajetan . It is a pity that he had to leave before the end of the term. I am not convinced, however, those who pour this reason crocodile tears, not batting an eyelid when at times the previous administration for political reasons dismissing other people in state-owned companies.

Now the contest to head the Wieliczka mine will other people. I hope that the new leadership of the Wieliczka mine will not be petty and bearing in mind the undeniable merits d’Obyrn, do not forget to invite him at least on an annual celebration of St. Barbara.