Grzegorz Braun

Grzegorz Michał Braun (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish far-right politician, journalist, academic lecturer, movie director and screenwriter. He is the leader of the monarchist party, Confederation of the Polish Crown and one of the leaders of Confederation Liberty and Independence. He was elected to the Sejm (Polish parliament) in 2019. Grzegorz Braun was born in Toruń, Poland. His father, Kazimierz Braun, is a movie director. His mother is Zofia, née Reklewska, while his maternal grandfather was Wincenty Sebastian Reklewski. Grzegorz is a nephew of Juliusz Braun (former network director of Telewizja Polska) and a brother of actress Monika Braun.

He graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1987, and completed postgraduate studies at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1993. From 1987 onward he co-organized activities of the Orange Alternative, for which he was oppressed by the communist government of the Polish People's Republic. In 1988 and 1989, he participated in student protests at the University of Wrocław. He was also active in the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity.

Later, he also was a journalist for, inter alia, the Option Right and the Polskie Radio Wrocław. Until 2007, he taught journalism at the University of Wrocław. As a movie director, he produced and directed over 30 titles, including: Transformation, New Poland, Correction to Biography, Positive Additions and Negative Additions, Comrade General Goes to War, Martin Luther and the Protestant Revolution, Smolensk Assassination. He is a co-founder of the Errata TV series, revealing the biographies of former Polish communist agents.

He was involved with the Polish Monarchists Organization, for which he contributed written works and lectures. He is involved with "Wake-up Call" ("Pobudka") an organisation that he has founded to strengthen the self-sustainability of faith communities and the internet TV channel "Sumienie Narodu."Braun is a Traditionalist Catholic. He is fiercely critical of Protestantism in Poland and has often debated Protestants in public.