Stanisław Grabski
| Stanisław Grabski | |
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Stanisław Grabski
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| Minister of Religious Beliefs and Public Education | |
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In office 27 October 1923 – 15 December 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Maciej Rataj |
| Succeeded by | Bolesław Miklaszewski |
| Minister of Religious Beliefs and Public Education | |
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In office 1925–1926 |
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| Preceded by | Bolesław Miklaszewski |
| Succeeded by | Antoni Sujkowski |
| Member of the Sejm | |
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In office 1919–1927 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 5, 1871 Borów, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland |
| Died | May 6, 1949 (aged 78) Sulejówek, Poland |
| Resting place | Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Political party |
National-Democratic Party Popular National Union |
| Spouse(s) | Ludmiła Rożen (1895–1915) Zofia Smolikówna (1916–1949) |
| Occupation | Politician, economist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Stanisław Grabski (April 5, 1871 in Borów, Łowicz County – May 6, 1949 in Sulejówek) was a Polish economist and politician, member of the Sejm, associated with the National Democracy political camp. Stanisław was the brother of another prominent Polish politician, economist and Prime Minister Władysław Grabski, and political activist Zofia Kirkor-Kiedroniowa.
Stanisław Grabski became a political activist early in his life. In 1890 he was the editor of the Workers Gazette in Berlin. In 1892 he co-founded the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) but in 1901 he detached himself from that political movement to become a member of Roman Dmowski's "nationalist" camp (later known as National Democracy).
A member of the National League since 1905, a year later he became one of its leaders. From 1907 he was a member of Dmowski's party, the National-Democratic Party. During World War I Grabski, like Dmowski, supported the idea that Poles should ally with Russia, and later he joined Dmowski's Polish National Committee (Komitet Narodowy Polski) in Paris.
From 1919 to 1925, in newly independent Poland (the Second Polish Republic), he was a deputy to the Sejm (the Polish parliament) from the right-wing National Populist Association (Związek Ludowo-Narodowy).
During the Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921) he strongly opposed the alliance between Poland and the Ukraine (represented by Symon Petlura). He resigned as chair of the parliamentary commission on foreign relations in protest of this alliance. During the negotiations of the Treaty of Riga (1921), where he was a Polish negotiator, he was to a great extent responsible for the disregarding of Ukrainian wishes, with resulting partitioning of Ukraine between Poland and the Soviet Union. This was in contrast to the idea of creation of an independent Ukrainian state, as advocated by one of the architects of the Polish-Ukrainian alliance, Józef Piłsudski.
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