Tomasz Dąbal

Tomasz Jan Dąbal (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʂ 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
Dąbal after his arrest in 1937
Born
Tomasz Jan Dąbal

(1890-12-29)29 December 1890
Sobów, Austria-Hungary
Died21 August 1937(1937-08-21) (aged 46)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityPolish
Occupation(s)Activist and politician

Life
Dąbal in Kiev in 1925

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
  1. 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.
  2. Timothy Snyder (2 October 2012). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. pp. 92–. ISBN 978-0-465-03297-6.

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