Fabijan Akintschyz

Fabijan Akintschyz ( Belarusian Фабіян Акінчыц ; born January 20, 1886 in Akintschyzy near Stoubzy ; † March 7, 1943 in Minsk ) was a Belarusian politician and chairman of the Belarusian National Socialist Party .

Life

Between 1906 and 1913 Akintschyz studied law at the State University of Saint Petersburg . In 1906 he joined the Social Revolutionary Party . After finishing his studies Akintschyz worked as a lawyer. In 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks . In 1923 Akintschyz returned to his homeland, which had been occupied by Poland at the time . He worked as a teacher in the village of Sasulje and opened a legal advice office.

In 1926 he became a member of the party executive of the Belarusian Peasant and Workers' Thramada. As a lawyer, he defended members of the party in court and coordinated the party's activities in parliament. In November 1926 he became chairman of the party's branch in Vilnius and belonged to the nationalist tendency within the party. In January 1927, Polish authorities arrested several members of the Hramada and accused them of wanting to split off the eastern border region from Poland. Akintschyz was sentenced to eight years in prison in Vilnius. However, he was able to leave the prison in July 1930. He joined the Central Council for Belarusian Cultural and Economic Organizations, which was headed by Anton Lutskevich . Akintschyz became a leading member of this Polish government-backed organization and wrote for the newspapers Naperad (Forward) and Belaruski Swon (Belarusian Bell ). In 1931 he published the anti-Soviet text Tschamu tak stalasja? (Why did this happen?) And later left the organization as he accused Lutskevich of leftist positions. In May 1931 Akintschyz founded a prop-Polish Belarusian organization called Rebirth in Vilnius . In 1933, together with Uladzislau Kaslouski, he published the newspaper Novy Schljach (New Way), which initiated the consolidation of the Belarusian nationalist movement.

In 1937 he founded the Belarusian National Socialist Party (BNSP), which was based on German fascism and was banned by the Polish authorities. In June 1939 the party held a congress in the city of Danzig , at which it was decided to establish an independent Belarus in cooperation with Germany. From June 1939 Akintschyz worked in the Belarusian office of the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich. In early 1940 he was part of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories of the White Ruthenian Committee in Warsaw . In 1941 Akintschyz became chairman of a Belarusian school for propaganda workers near Berlin . He was killed while visiting Minsk . Soviet partisans claimed the act for themselves.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, July 8, 2016. p. 12