Tomasz Jan Dąbal (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʐ ˈdɔmbal]; 29 December 1890 – 21 August 1937) was a Polish lawyer, activist of the interwar period and politician. He was the co-founder and the head of state of the Republic of Tarnobrzeg, succeeded by the Second Polish Republic.
Tomasz Dąbal | |
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 Dąbal after his arrest in 1937 | |
| Born | Tomasz Jan Dąbal 29 December 1890 |
| Died | 21 August 1937 (aged 46) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation(s) | Activist and politician |
Life
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In 1909–1914, he studied law in Vienna and medicine in Kraków, and he joined the Polish People's Party (1911).
In 1917, he was a member of the Polish Legions in World War I. With Eugeniusz Okoń, he was a founder of the Republic of Tarnobrzeg. He was a member of the Polish People's Party "Left" and later the Radical Peasant Party, which he co-founded with Okoń. Deputy to Polish Sejm (1918-1921).
He joined the Communist Party of Poland in 1920. In November 1921 he was stripped of his immunity as a member of the parliament and arrested for anti-state agitation. Sentenced to six years in prison in July 1922, he was exchanged for Polish prisoners in the Soviet Union in 1923. In October 1923 he became vice-president of the Peasant International. After Stalin's rise to power, he moved to Minsk where he became vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. From 1932 to 1937 he also was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia.[1] Like most of the Polish communist activists in the Soviet Union he was arrested and executed during the Great Purge - after a confession was extracted from him in which he claimed to have directed the Polish Military Organization in the entire Soviet Union.[2] He was exonerated in 1956.
References
edit- ^ Wojciech Roszkowski; Jan Kofman (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1952–. ISBN 978-1-317-47593-4.
- ^ Timothy Snyder (2 October 2012). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-465-03297-6.
Sources
edit- Henryk Cimek, Tomasz Dąbal: 1890-1937, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna, 1993.
- Томаш Францевич Домбаль родился
See also
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