- Karol Marian Pospieszalski
Karol Marian Pospieszalski (
11 September ,1909 -19 February ,2007 [http://www.semper.pl/kh/kh08_1t.html] [http://www.archiwumkorporacyjne.pl/index.php/aktualnosci/] ) was a Polish lawyer and historian.Member of the
Polish resistance during World War II , he published his first scholarly student underground inoccupied Poland in 1943 (about legal status of Poles on occupied territories). During late 1940s and 1950s instalinist People's Republic of Poland he was persecuted by the authorities (he was arrested and interrogated byUrząd Bezpieczeństwa ). His career and promotions were dalayed due to the government seeing him as a member of the opposition. He was a lecturer at theAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań , where he would become aprofessor . He retired in 1979.Honorary citizen of the city of
Poznań since 2005.His area of specialty included
Polish-German relations , particularly during theWorld War II .References
* [http://miasta.gazeta.pl/poznan/1,36022,2734024.html Pospieszalski Karol Marian] , gazeta.pl, 2005-05-2
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