Andrii Makarenko

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Directory in Kamjanez-Podilskyj 1919. From left to right: Andrij Makarenko , Fedir Schwez , Symon Petljura

Andrij Hawrylowytsch Makarenko ( Ukrainian Андрій Гаврилович Макаренко ; born July 17, 1885 in Hajach , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † November 28, 1963 in Houston , Texas , United States ) was a Ukrainian politician.

Life

Andrij Makarenko was born in the city of Hajach in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava . Before 1917 he was in the management of the Südwestbahnen in Kiev. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he was one of the organizers and head of the Ukrainian railway workers' union and the initiator of the Ukrainian railway administration.

In the Ukrainian state (Hetmanat) he was department director of the Ministry of Railways of the Ukrainian state, but was also one of the organizers of the uprising against the Hetmanat. As a partisan of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party ( Українська соціал-демократична робітнича партія (УСДРП) ), he was in the night of 13 November 14 1918 Foundation member of the Board of the Ukrainian People's Republic , the executive body of the Ukrainian People's Republic .

In 1919 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia , where he received his doctorate at the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute in Prague . On January 4, 1921, he became a founding member of the All-Ukrainian National Council . Together with Fedir Schwez ( Федір Петрович Швець ; 1882–1940) and Opanas Andrijewskyj ( Опанас Михайлович Андрієвський ; 1878–1955) he organized the Ukrainian national emigration representative in 1928/29, the Ukrainian national emigrant was intended to be the Ukrainian national emigrant representative. Later he went to Austria and in 1945 to West Germany , where he led the Orthodox community in Regensburg , supported Ukrainian emigrants and saved them from being returned to the Soviet Union . He finally emigrated to the United States in 1951, where he died at the age of 77 in Houston, Texas and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Andrij Makarenko in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 11, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ^ Entry on Andrij Makarenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 13, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Makarenko, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makarenko, Andrij Hawrylowytsch (full name); Макаренко, Андрій Гаврилович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hajach , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1963
Place of death Houston , Texas , United States