Andrij Liwyzkyj

Andrij Liwyzkyj before 1937

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Андрій Миколайович Лівицький
Transl. :	Andrij Mykolajovyč Livyc'kyj
Transcr. :	Andrij Mykolajowytsch Liwyzkyj

Andrij Liwyzkyj 1900

Andriy Liwyzkyj (* March 27 ^jul. / April 9, 1879 ^greg. In Lipljawe , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , (now the Cherkasy Oblast , Ukraine ); † 17th January 1954 in Karlsruhe , Germany ) was a Ukrainian politician and Lawyer, co-founder of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party ( Revoluzijna ukrajinka partija , RUP). After the dissolution of the RUP in 1905, he switched to the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Ukrajinska Sozialno-Demokratytschna robitnytscha partija , USDRP).

From 1919 to 1920 Liwyzkyj was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Ukrainian People's Republic in the governments of Borys Martos , Issaak Masepa and Vyacheslav Prokopovych . From September 1919 he also held the office of Foreign Minister of the Republic and headed the Ukrainian diplomatic delegation during the negotiations in Warsaw on the Ukrainian-Polish assistance pact. From October 18 to November 12, 1920 he was Prime Minister of the last government of the Ukrainian People's Republic to operate on Ukrainian soil .

From 1922 to 1926 he was Prime Minister and from 1926 to 1954 President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile .

He died in Karlsruhe and was first buried in the Munich forest cemetery, later his remains were transferred to the cemetery of the Ukrainian Orthodox St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook in New Jersey . He was the father of the Ukrainian politician in exile Mykola Liwyzkyj .

Honors

In 2009, on the occasion of Andrij Liwyzkyj's 130th birthday , the Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with his likeness.

Web links

Commons : Andrij Liwyzkyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also : List of Heads of Government in Ukraine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History and tradition of Ukraine's foreign services on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine , accessed on March 10, 2015
2. ↑ Liwyzkyj on the official website of the Ukrainian government , accessed on March 10, 2015
3. ↑ Biography Andrij Liwyzkyj on proekt-wms accessed on March 6, 2016 (Russian)
4. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on June 16, 2016 (Ukrainian)

literature

• Andrij Liwyckyj , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 11/1954 of March 8, 1954, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)