Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (, 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish

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and

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; from 1991 to 1993 he was

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.Posłowie I kadencji 1991 - 1993 (Delegates of 1st Session, 1991-1993), Sejm of Poland

/ref> He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), Order of the White Eagle. Chrzanowski was born and died in

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, Poland. During

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he was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the

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. He finished a

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at a secret underground university in 1945. During the second half of the 1970s he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statutes establishing the

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trade union and later was the lawyer which guided the legal registration process of the organization. In 1989 he founded the

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(ZChN), party he chaired to 1994. During the

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, he endorsed Polska jest Najważniejsza.

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