Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Lithuania

The building of the ministry

The Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Lithuania ( Lithuanian Lietuvos Respublikos miškų ūkio ministerija ) was a ministry of the Government of Lithuania . As the Ministry of Forestry , it was responsible for forestry and forest policy in Lithuania ( 2 million hectares of forests ).

history

Until 1990 there was the Ministry of Forestry and Forest Industry of Soviet Lithuania ( Lithuanian Lietuvos TSR miškų ūkio ir miško pramonės ministerija ). It was subordinate to the Soviet Council of Ministers and the Soviet State Committee for Forest Management. December 1996 merged the Ministry of Forestry with the Ministry of Agriculture and became the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lithuania ( Lithuanian Lietuvos Respublikos žemės ir miškų ūkio ministerija ). On May 6, 1998, it became the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania .

It was based in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius .

minister

• 1947–1953, 1957–1978: Algirdas Matulionis (1911–1980)
• 1978–1988, 1988–1990: Vytautas Lukaševičius (1932–1994)
• 1990–1992: Vaidotas Antanaitis (1928–2018)
• 1992–1993: Jonas Rimantas Klimas (* 1939)
• 1994: Gintautas Kovalčikas (* 1947)
• 1994–1996: Albertas Vasiliauskas (* 1935)

Vice Minister

• 1958–1984: Vincentas Verbyla (1918–2017)
• 1988–1990: Rimantas Šalkauskas (* 1947)
• 1990–1992: Jurgis Gečys (* 1927)
• 1990–1994: Gintautas Kovalčikas (* 1947)
• 1992: Petras Bužinskas
• 1992–1993: Jonas Tauginas (1946–1999)
• 1996 to 1998: Algirdas Antanas Brukas (* 1936)

Subordinate organizations

• General Forestry Office at the Ministry of Forestry (lit.Generalinė miškų urėdija prie Miškų ūkio ministerijos )
  • Forestry Offices (Chief Forester, Lithuanian Miškų urėdija )
    • Forestry ( Lithuanian Girininkija )

Web links

• Statute of the Ministry of Forestry of Lithuania (Lithuanian)