Hanna Suchocka

Hanna Suchocka 160 is a Polish political figure, lawyer, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna and Chair of the Constitutional Law Department, First VicePresident of the Venice Commission

Suchocka was born in Pleszew, Poland, in a Catholic family of chemists. Her grandfather was a University teacher and her grandmother Anna became member of the first Polish parliament after independence in 1918, when women got the right to vote. Suchocka went to law school and became a researcher at the University of Poznan but she was fired when she refused to join the Communist party. She was preoccupied by human rights and undertook a PhD in Constitutional Law in West Germany in 1975.

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