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Bookmark or Share- Lech Walesa | Biography, Solidarity, Nobel Prize, & FactsLech Walesa, labor activist who helped form and led (1980–90) Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity, and later was president of the country (1990–95). He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983. Learn more about Walesa’s life and career.
- Lech Wałęsa summary | BritannicaLech Wałęsa, (born Sept. 29, 1943, Popowo, near Włocławek, Pol.), Polish labour leader and president of Poland (1990–95). An electrician, he worked in the Lenin Shipyard at Gdańsk, Pol. (1967–76), but he was fired for his antigovernment activities. In 1980 he joined workers in a strike and soon became leader of the Solidarity trade union.
- Lech Wałęsa - WikipediaLech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election , Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote .
- Lech Walesa | Academy of AchievementIn 1990 Lech Walesa, the former shipyard electrician, was elected President of Poland, an office he held for the next five years. TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the past century. Lech Walesa's courage helped bring about the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc and the end of the Cold War.
- Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize - archive, 19836 October 1983. by Michael Simmons. Mr Lech Walesa said yesterday after the announcement that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize that he would ask a relative to accept the prize on his...
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