[1] (February 17, 1908 – January 23, 1992) was a Polish politician,[2] a member of the rural movement, a soldier in the Peasants' Battalions, a full professor of economic sciences, and the chairman of the United People's Party from 1956 to 1962 and in 1981, as well as the chairman of the Central Board of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society from 1955 to 1957.

In 1927, he graduated from the private 8-grade Bogumił Braun Humanistic Gymnasium in Łódź,[4] and in 1931, he obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Poznań.

From 1940 to 1944, he was the chairman of the Provincial Leadership of the People's Movement and a member of the Command of the Łódź District of the Peasants' Battalions.

[1] He became the editor of the underground magazine "Drogi ruchu ludowego" and also taught in clandestine classes.

In 1945 and from 1946 to 1947, he was the Vice-President, and from 1947 to 1948, the President of the Central Board of the Association of Rural Youth of the Polish Republic "Wici".