Antanas Tumėnas
Antanas Tumėnas (born May 13, 1880 in Kurkliečiai , Rokiškis district , † February 8, 1946 in Bachmanning , Austria ) was a Lithuanian politician and lawyer . He was the Prime Minister of Lithuania from June 18, 1924 to February 4, 1925 .
Life
Tumėnas graduated in 1909 studying the law in Saint Petersburg . He then worked as a lawyer and was politically involved with the Lithuanian Christian Democrats . Among other things, he was responsible for the introduction of a Lithuanian-language church service in Zarasai . He was Justice of the Peace of Zarasai. From 1920 he lived in Kaunas , the provisional capital of Lithuania. Here he was elected to the provisional Seimas and in 1922 to the 1st Ordinary Seimas.
He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania, from 1922 Chairman of the Constitutional Commission and Justice Minister of Lithuania in several governments. From 1941 to 1944 he was a university professor in Vilnius and was arrested by the Gestapo during the German occupation in 1944 , but was able to flee to Austria , where he died in 1946.
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SURNAME | Tumėnas, Antanas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kurkliečiai , Rokiškis |
DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1946 |
Place of death | Bachmanning , Austria |