Lew Rebet

Lew Rebet in Auschwitz 1941

Lev Roman Mychajlowytsch Rebet ( Ukrainian Лев Роман Михайлович Ре́бет , Russian Лев Михайлович Ребет Lev Mikhailovich Rebet ; born March 3, 1912 in Stryj , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , † October 12, 1957 politician in Munich , was a Ukrainian politician, West-Germany , Austria-Hungary , † October 12, 1957 politician in Munich ; Lawyer and the leader of the democratic wing of the OUN .

Life

Lew Rebet was born as the son of a post office clerk of Jewish origin in the then Austrian city of Stryj. He attended the Ukrainian grammar school there and at the age of 15 became a member of the Ukrainian Military Organization ( Українська Військова Організація ). After founding the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1929, he became a member there and quickly rose to its leadership. From 1930 he was head of the OUN leadership in the Stryj district, between 1934 and 1938 he was head of the national executive of the OUN in western Ukraine . In the 1930s he was arrested several times for his work for the OUN by the Polish authorities and spent two and a half years in Polish prisons in Stryi and Lviv . In 1938 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Lviv University .

After the OUN was split into a Melnyk and Bandera faction, he supported Stepan Bandera and, after the outbreak of the German-Soviet war , went to Lviv as part of the Bandera faction on June 30, 1941, where he met on the evening of June 30th In 1941 participated in the proclamation of the restoration of the Ukrainian state. On July 5, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Ukrainian State Council (the West Ukrainian government) headed by Yaroslav Stetsko . After his arrest, he was prime minister for some time. After he refused to repeal the law to restore the Ukrainian state, he and other members of the government were arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1941 to 1944 .

Exile and assassination by the KGB

After his release in 1944, like most of the active politicians of the OUN, he emigrated to the West and settled in Munich. In 1945 he took part in secret talks in Vienna and Munich with representatives of the OUN home leadership in the Ukraine under the direction of Roman Schuchewytsch . In 1947 he received a doctorate from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, where he taught constitutional law from 1948 and became a professor in 1954. Rebet was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society , a leading theorist of Ukrainian nationalism and editor of the Ukrainian Independent newspaper. On the way to their editorial office, he was murdered on October 12, 1957 at Karlsplatz 8 in Munich at the tram stop at the time by the KGB agent Bogdan Staschinski , who later also killed Stepan Bandera, with a specially made hydrocyanic acid pistol.

Grave of Lev and Darija Rebet in the Lychakiv Cemetery

He was on the forest cemetery buried in Munich and 2010 in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv reburied .

family

Rebet was the husband of the activist Darija Rebet (Ukrainian Дарія Ребет ), née Zissyk (Ukrainian Цісик ); * February 26, 1913; † January 5, 1992.

Web links

Commons : Lew Rebet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} article on Lev Rebet in istpravda of October 12, 2011; accessed on June 13, 2020 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Short biography Lew Rebet on timenote.info ; accessed on June 13, 2020 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on Rebet, Lev in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on June 13, 2020
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on Lew Rebet in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on June 13, 2020 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ Take off your beard . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1961 ( online ).
6. ↑ entry to Darija Rebet in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on June 13, 2020 (Ukrainian)