Julijan Rewaj
Julijan Ivanovych Rewaj ( Ukrainian Юліян Іванович Ревай , Czech Július Révay ; born June 26, 1899 in Myrtscha , Austria-Hungary , † April 30, 1979 in New York , United States ) was a Ukrainian politician. Rewaj was head of government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine from March 15, 1939 to March 18, 1939 .
Life
Yulian Rewaj was born in the village of Myrtscha ( Мирча ) in the Kingdom of Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, not far from Malyj Bereznyj in what is now Velykyj Bereznyj Rajon of the Ukrainian Oblast of Transcarpathia . After attending school, he entered the teachers' college in Uzhhorod in 1913 , graduating in 1917 and then working for several years as a teacher in public schools. Between 1922 and 1935 he worked as a school inspector and regional department advisor of the Ministry of Education of Czechoslovakia in Uzhhorod. In the 1920s, he was involved as a co-author on the publication of several school textbooks. In 1920 he became a member of the newly founded Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party of Workers and, after a certain time, its presidium member. Between 1935 and 1938 he was elected for the party as a member of the parliament of Czechoslovakia.
From October 11, 1938 to October 26, 1938 he was in the first government of Carpathian Ukraine, as the autonomous state of the Czecho-Slovak Republic under Andrij Brodij , Minister of Transport. Then, between October 26, 1938 and December 1, 1938 Minister of Communications, Labor, Health and Social Affairs in the first government of avgustyn voloshyn . In the subsequent second Voloshyn government he was minister without portfolio from December 1, 1938 to March 6, 1939. After all, after the proclamation of the independence of Carpathian Ukraine between March 15, 1939 and March 18, 1939, he was Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the first and only government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine in the government of Yulian Revay .
After the Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ukraine, he lived in Bratislava, Slovakia, between 1939 and 1945 . After he was arrested, interrogated and released by the NKVD in Prague in 1945 , he fled to Germany, from where he emigrated to the USA in 1948 and worked there from 1949 to 1957 as director of the Ukrainian Institute and the Carpathian Research Center in New York. He died at the age of 79 in New York and was buried there.
Web links
- Literary history of Ukraine Rewaj, Julijan (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Julijan Rewaj on 1939.in.ua ; accessed on March 1, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Julian Revay, Prime Minister of the Government of Carpathian-Ukraine on territoryterror.org.ua ; accessed on March 1, 2019 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ entry to Julijan Rewaj in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 1, 2019 (Ukrainian)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Avgustyn Volozhyn |
Head of Government of Carpathian Ukraine 1938–1939 |
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| SURNAME | Rewaj, Julijan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rewaj, Julijan Ivanovich (full name); Ревай, Юліян Іванович (Ukrainian); Révay, Július (Czech) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Myrtscha , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1979 |
| Place of death | New York , United States |