Narcyz Wiatr (nom-de-guerre "Zawoja"[1] and "Władysław Brzoza";[2] 19 September 1907 – 21 April 1945) was a Polish political activist, member of the agrarian Polish People's Party (SL), a prisoner at the Bereza Kartuska prison and during World War II a leader of Peasants' Battalions (BCh) an anti-Nazi underground resistance movement, with the rank of colonel,.
[4] Before the war Wiatr studied Law and Economics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he became active in youth organizations associated with the Ludowcy (agrarian) movement.
[4] He helped to organize a farmer's strike in the Beskidy region, for which he was arrested and imprisoned at Bereza Kartuska for six weeks, along with other political activists.
From 1941 until 1945 he was the commander of the VI Region of the BCh in Małopolska and Silesia,[1] and was active in the organization SL-Roch (the wartime successor of People's Party).
[4] In 1996, Stanisław Paryła, who had been an agent of the Kraków communist secret police in 1945 and participated in the shooting during which Wiatr was killed, was charged with murder.