Mečislovas Gedvilas

Mečislovas Gedvilas (born November 19, 1901 in Bubiai near Šiauliai , † February 15, 1981 in Vilnius ) was a Soviet-Lithuanian politician , member of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( Lietuvos Komunistų Partija ) and chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR .

Life

After school he completed a teacher training course , after which he was from 1923 to 1927 teacher at the high school in Palanga .

In 1934 he joined the Lithuanian Communist Party ( Lietuvos Komunistų Partijos ). On July 14, 1940, he became a member of the People's Assembly (Liaudies Seimas), which a week later approved the accession of Lithuania to the Soviet Union . At this time he was also People's Commissar for Home Affairs and then briefly Vice-President of Liaudies Seimas .

After joining, he became Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars on August 25, 1940 and thus de facto first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR . After the renaming of this body on April 2, 1946, he was then chairman of the Council of Ministers . During his reign, Lithuania was fundamentally sovietized, which ultimately led to the denationalization of the previously independent republic.

Successor as Prime Minister was Motiejus Šumauskas on January 16, 1956 , in whose government he was Minister of Education until 1973, as under Prime Minister Juozas Maniūšis .

Web links

• biography
• Biographical information in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reimer Wulff: Sovietization of Lithuania 1939-1956.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Term paper, Philipps University Marburg, 2004  

predecessor	Office	successor
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius	Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR August 25, 1940 - January 16, 1956	Motiejus Šumauskas