Roman Dmowski
Politician
1864 – 1939
Who was Roman Dmowski?
Roman Stanisław Dmowski was a Polish politician, statesman, and co-founder and chief ideologue of the right-wing National Democracy political movement. He saw the aggressive Germanization of Polish territories controlled by the German Empire as the major threat to Polish culture and therefore advocated a degree of accommodation with another power that had partitioned Poland, the Russian Empire. He favored the re-establishment of Polish independence by nonviolent means, and supported policies favorable to the Polish middle class. During World War I, in Paris, through his Polish National Committee he was a prominent spokesman, to the Allies, for Polish aspirations. He was a principal figure instrumental in the postwar restoration of Poland's independent existence.
Dmowski never wielded official political power, except for a brief period in 1923 as minister of foreign affairs. Nevertheless, he was one of the most influential Polish ideologues and politicians of his time. A controversial personality all his life and since, Dmowski believed that only a Polish-speaking Roman Catholic could be a good Pole; his thinking marginalized other minorities, and he was vocally anti-semitic. In 1926 he attempted to emulate Italian fascism. He remains the prototype of Polish right-wing nationalism and has been called "the father of Polish nationalism." Throughout most of his life, he was the chief opponent of the Polish military and political leader Józef Piłsudski and of the latter's vision of Poland as a multinational federation.
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- Born
- Aug 9, 1864
Kamionek - Also known as
- Roman Stanisław Dmowski
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Warsaw
Natural science
- PhD, University of Warsaw
- Died
- Jan 2, 1939
Drozdowo, Podlaskie Voivodeship
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on July 23, 2013
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