Marek Koćmiel

Marek Koćmiel (born 1958) is an engineer, businessperson, and politician. He was a member of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik from 1998 to 2000, and the mayor of Szczecin, Poland from 2000 to 2001.

Biography
Marek Koćmiel was born in 1958 in Opoczno, Poland. He had graduated from the Faculty of the Maritime Transportation of the Szczecin University of Technology. During his studies, in 1980, he waa co-founder of his university division of the Independent Students' Association, and a member of the redaction of oppositionist newsletter Muchomor.

From 1990 to 1994 he was a member of the city council of Szczecin, Poland, and from 1990 to 1991 he was a deputy mayor of the economics matters. Koćmiel was a member of the Liberal Democratic Congress, and later, the Freedom Union, of which, he was a chairperson of its division in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. He left the party in 2001. From 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Sejmik. On 24 January 2000 he was appointed by the city council as the mayor of Szczecin, and served until 25 May 2001. He had retired from politics and operates a private business.