Andrij Melnyk

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Andrij Melnyk (1914)

Andrij Atanassowytsch Melnyk ( Ukrainian Андрі́й Атанасович Ме́льник ; born December 12, 1890 in Volja Jakubowa , Lemberg district , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; † November 1, 1964 in Cologne ) was a Ukrainian officer and politician. Since 1938 he has headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which he co-founded in Vienna in 1929 .

Life

Melnyk grew up in the Galicia of the Habsburg Empire and began studying agriculture in Vienna in 1912 . With the beginning of the First World War he joined the Ukrainian Legion as a volunteer . There he fought as an officer with his unit in the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by Russia in 1916 . In the prison camp near Tsaritsyn he succeeded in 1917 with a group of officers of Galician origin. a. Jewhen Konowalez belonged to the escape. In Kiev they hired a battalion of Sitsh riflemen, consisting primarily of Galicians and Bukovinians . Melnyk headed the army of the West Ukrainian People's Republic as chief of staff from 1919 . As a military attaché he worked from 1920 to 1921 in Prague and Vienna. From 1922 Melnyk lived in Galicia and later became a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists . However, in 1940 there was a split within the group and the OUN-B (under the leadership of Stepan Banderas ) and the OUN-M under the leadership of Melnyk were founded.

Just as Bandera he works with the defense of the army together, from which it code-named consul I received.

In 1941 Melnyk was placed under house arrest by the German occupiers and later deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was imprisoned until 1944. He was then taken to the Hotel Ifen in Hirschegg . There he continued his political activities, for example by writing articles on the history of Ukraine. At the beginning of May 1945 he was liberated by the French army .

He died in a hospital in Cologne in 1964 and was buried in Luxembourg , where he had lived since 1945.

Web links

Commons : Andriy Melnyk  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Stöver : The Liberation from Communism: American Liberation Policy in the Cold War 1947–1991 , Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-412-03002-3 , p. 308. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ The Nuremberg Trial, main hearing, fifty-sixth day. Monday, February 11, 1946, afternoon session. February 11, 1946, retrieved on July 11, 2018 (German): “ ... I had got in touch with the Ukrainian nationalists serving the German defense and with members of other national-fascist groups. Among other things, I personally gave the instructions to the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalists - Melnyk (code name, ›Consul I‹) and Bandera ... "
  3. ^ Entry on Andrij Melnyk in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Article on Melnyk, Andriy in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto); accessed on December 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Melnyk, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melnyk, Andrij Atanasowytsch (full name); Мéльник, Андрі́й Атанасович (Ukrainian); Melnyk, Andriy (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian officer and politician, chairman of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolja Jakubowa , Lviv District , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1964
Place of death Cologne , Germany