The Ministry of Infrastructure () is a ministry within government of Poland currently responsible for transport, inland navigation, water and maritime resources and exploatation. Incumbent Minister of Infrastructure is Dariusz Klimczak since 13 December 2023. Ministry headquarters are located at 4/6 Chałubińskiego Street in Warsaw.
History 1919–1924 – Ministry of Railways 1924–1926 – Ministry of Railways 1926–1939 – Ministry of Communications 1944 – Center for Communication, Post and Telegraph 1944–1945 – Communication Center 1945–1951 – Ministry of Communications 1951–1957 – Ministry of Railways 1957 – Ministry of Road and Air Transport 1957–1958 – Ministry of Communications 1957–1987 – Ministry of Communications 1987–1989 – Ministry of Transport, Shipping and Communications 1989–2001 – Ministry of Transport and Maritime Economy
The ministry was originally created under the premiership of Leszek Miller in October 2001, yet was abolished in 2005 under the Law and Justice government of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, reorganized as the Ministry of Transport and Construction (2005–2006) and later by the Ministry of Transport (2006–2007). Following the 2007 election of Civic Platform under Donald Tusk, the ministry was again reorganized into the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Following the reelection of Tusk in the 2011 parliamentary elections, the Council of Ministers moved to abolish the Infrastructure Ministry on 21 November 2011.. Sejm It was replaced by the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy, and the Ministry of Administration and Digitization.
2001–2005 – Ministry of Infrastructure 2005–2006 – Ministry of Transport and Construction 2006–2007 – Ministry of Transport 2007–2011 – Ministry of Infrastructure 2011–2013 – Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy 2013–2015 – Ministry of Infrastructure and Development 2015–2018 – Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction
Headquarters The building of the Ministry of Communication is a modernist office building at 4/6 Tytusa Chałubińskiego Street in Warsaw, erected between 1929 and 1931, designed by Rudolf Świerczyński.
In the years 1948–1950 the complex of buildings was significantly expanded according to the design of Bohdan Pniewski. The high-rise part can be considered as the first skyscraper built in Warsaw, and probably in the whole country after World War II.
In the period 1945–2000 the Polish State Railways were also managed from this building.
List of ministers Portrait Name(Born-Died) Party Term of Office Prime Minister(Cabinet)Ministry of Infrastructure Cezary Grabarczyk Civic Platform 16 November 2007 7 November 2011 Donald Tusk (Tusk I) Donald Tusk 7 November 2011 18 November 2011Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime EconomySławomir NowakCivic Platform18 November 201127 November 2013Donald Tusk ( Tusk II)Ministry of Infrastructure and DevelopmentElżbieta BieńkowskaCivic Platform27 November 201322 September 2014Donald Tusk ( Tusk II)Maria WasiakNonpartisan22 September 201416 November 2015Ewa Kopacz
(Kopacz)Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction Andrzej AdamczykPiS16 November 20159 January 2018Beata Szydło
(Szydło)Ministry of Infrastructure Andrzej AdamczykPiS9 January 201827 November 2023Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki, Morawiecki II)Alvin GajadhurNonpartisan27 November 202313 December 2023Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki III)Dariusz KlimczakPolish People's Party13 December 2023PresentDonald Tusk (Tusk III)
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Ministry of Infrastructure Ministry of Infrastructure