Tomasz Jan Dąbal (; 29 December 1890 – 21 August 1937) was a

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lawyer, activist of the interwar period and politician. He was the co-founder and the

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of the

Republic of Tarnobrzeg The Republic of Tarnobrzeg ( pl, Republika Tarnobrzeska, ) was a short-lived political entity, proclaimed on 6 November 1918 in the Polish town of Tarnobrzeg. Its main founders were two socialist activists Tomasz Dąbal and the Roman Catholic pr ...

, succeeded by the Second Polish Republic.

Life

In 1909–1914, he studied law in Vienna and medicine in Kraków, and he joined the

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(1911). In 1917, he was a member of the

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. With Eugeniusz Okoń, he was a founder of the

. He was a member of the

Polish People's Party "Left" The Polish People's Party "Left" ( pl, Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Lewica", PSL Lewica) was a political party in Poland. History The party was established by Jan Stapiński on 5 April 1914 as a breakaway from the Polish People's Party. In the Ja ...

and later the

Radical Peasant Party The Radical Peasant Party ( pl, Chłopskie Stronnictwo Radykalne, CSR) was a political party in Poland. History The party was established in 1919, with the radical priest Eugeniusz Okoń and Tomasz Dąbal amongst its founders.Jerzy Jan Lerski ( ...

, which he co-founded with Okoń. Deputy to Polish

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(1918-1921). He joined the

Communist Party of Poland The interwar Communist Party of Poland ( pl, Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a December 1918 merger of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland a ...

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

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in 1923. In October 1923 he became vice-president of the Peasant International. After

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's rise to power, he moved to

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where he became vice-president of the

Belarusian Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) ( be, Нацыянальная акадэмія навук Беларусі, russian: Национальная академия наук Беларуси, НАН Беларуси, НАНБ) is ...

. From 1932 to 1937 he also was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia. Like most of the Polish communist activists in the Soviet Union he was arrested and executed during the

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- after a confession was extracted from him in which he claimed to have directed the

Polish Military Organization The Polish Military Organisation, PMO ( pl, Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, POW) was a secret military organization which formed during World War I (1914-1918). Józef Piłsudski founded the group in August 1914; it adopted the name ''POW'' in Novem ...

in the entire Soviet Union. He was exonerated in 1956.

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*Henryk Cimek, ''Tomasz Dąbal: 1890-1937'', Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna, 1993.
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Life

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