Mikas Lipčius

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Mikas Lipčius (born December 19, 1894 in Bernotai , Wolost Betygala , today Rajongemeinde Raseiniai ; † June 25, 1942 or December 24, 1941 in the camps of Pechora , Komi ) was a Lithuanian politician and vice minister .

Life

From 1914 to 1916 Lipčius studied at the Riga Polytechnic . From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Agricultural Institute in Moscow . In 1918 he was a volunteer in the Lithuanian Army . In 1919 in now independent Lithuania, he worked in the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense . From 1919 to 1923 he was the first head of the espionage department of the Lithuanian General Staff . From 1923 to 1924 he worked as Vice Minister in the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania . In 1927 he graduated from the School of Political Science in Paris . Until 1940 he was director of the finance department in the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania .

In 1940 Lithuania came under the control of the Soviet Union and then became part of it. Lipčius was arrested the same year and taken to Kaunas prison and then to Vilnius . In 1941 he was taken to the camp near Pechora in Komi , where he died in the same or the following year.

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SURNAME Lipčius, Mikas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian politician and vice minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernotai , Wolost Betygala , Kovno Governorate , Russian Empire (today: Raseiniai Rajongemeinde , Lithuania )
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1941 or June 25, 1942
Place of death Camp Pechora , Komi ASSR , RSFSR , Soviet Union