Name Dyzma Galaj Resigned March 27, 1972 | Died 2000, Warsaw, Poland | |
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Role Former Marshal of the Sejm Previous office Marshal of the Sejm (1971–1972) | ||
Dyzma Gałaj (1915, Mystkowice - 2000, Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist and a politician.
During World War II he was a member of the Polish peasant Bataliony Chłopskie resistance. After the war he would become a communist political activist, and study at the University of Łódź. He would be a member of the Polish parliament (Sejm) from 1965 to 1985 and marshal of the Sejm in 1971-1972, representing the United People's Party (ZSL). From 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the Polish Council of State. In politics, he was seen as a supporter of general Mieczysław Moczar.
As a scholar, his work concentrated on the 20th century Polish peasants.
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