Stefan Tymkewycz

Stefan Tymkewycz (born 18 September 1959) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothians region.

Tymkewycz was also elected as councillor for Craigentinny/Duddingston ward on the City of Edinburgh Council at the 2007 City of Edinburgh Council election.

As a result of being elected to both bodies, he agreed not to take his allowance for that job while he was an MSP.

In August 2007 he announced that he was to step down as an MSP to concentrate on being an Edinburgh councillor and was replaced by Shirley-Anne Somerville in the Scottish Parliament on 31 August 2007.

His father Bohdan Tymkewycz was a member of the 14th Waffen SS Galizien Division during World War II and was a Prisoner of War stationed in Scotland and remained in the country after his release.