Sławomir Mentzen

Mentzen was born in Toruń, Poland. He graduated with a Licentiate in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Economics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. His doctoral thesis concerned the issue of public debt.

He runs several accounting offices and owns a tax consultancy office as well as a hunting shop. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Toruń and the National Chamber of Tax Advisors.

Mentzen began his political career in 2007 by joining the Real Politics Union. However, he soon suspended his activities within the party. He decided to re-enter politics after the success of Paweł Kukiz in 2015, as he tried to get on the electoral lists of the Kukiz'15 party.

In 2017, Mentzen was elected vice chairman of Janusz Korwin-Mikke's New Hope party, at the time still called KORWiN. He had already held important functions in the party's structures, as he was the president of the Toruń district and the chairman of the party's scientific council. In the 2018 local elections, he ran for president of Toruń. He came in fifth place with 3.94% of the votes. In 2022, he became the new chairman of the New Hope party after Korwin-Mikke stepped down.

In 2019, prior to the 2019 European Parliament election, while mocking the "Five points of PiS", he proclaimed the unofficial "Five points of Confederation" as follows: "We do not want Jews, homosexuals, abortions, taxes and the European Union."[3]

Mentzen is married and has three children. He is of German descent, as his paternal great-grandfather was German.[4]