Mykola Kapustjanskyj

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Микола Олександрович Капустянський
Transl. :	Mykola Oleksandrovyč Kapustjans'kyj
Transcr. :	Mykola Olexandrowytsch Kapustjanskyj

Mykola Kapustjanskyj before 1939

Mykola Olexandrowytsch Kapustjanskyj (* January 20 ^jul. / 1. February  1879 ^greg. In Tschumaky , yekaterinoslav governorate / Russian Empire , † 19 February 1969 in Munich ) was a general of the armed forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic and leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN ).

biography

Kapustjanskyj was born in 1879 in a village in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Dnipropetrovsk, the son of an Orthodox priest and attended the seminary in Yekaterinoslav until 1899 . In 1904 he graduated from the Infantry Cadet School in Odessa and volunteered in the Russo-Japanese War between 1904 and 1905 , graduated from the General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg in 1912 and fought as a soldier in the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War . He was promoted to colonel in 1917 and was a general staff officer of the Ukrainian units of the Russian army after the October Revolution . In 1920 he was promoted to brigadier general. After the Polish-Soviet War he was interned in Poland from 1921 to 1923 and after his release went to France, where he founded and directed the Ukrainian National Union in France.

Kapustiansky was one of the founding members and a leading member of the OUN from 1929 until his death. After the split of the OUN in 1940, he supported the OUN-M under the leadership of Andrij Melnyk . To get support for the OUN, he visited parishes of Ukrainian exiles in the United States and Canada between 1936 and 1937. During the Second World War he tried to form a contingent of Ukrainian troops within the Wehrmacht as deputy chairman of the Ukrainian National Council in Kiev , but was arrested by the Germans. After the war he emigrated to Munich and was the first head of the military department of the government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic. He has written a book and numerous articles on military topics. He died in Munich in 1969 and was buried there in the forest cemetery. On January 22nd, 2010 Kapustjanskyj was reburied in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz : Handbook of Antisemitism - Organizations, Institutions, Movements. ISBN 3-11-027878-2 , p. 468ff.
2. ↑ Mykola Kapustjanskyj on the website of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine , accessed April 17, 2015.
3. ↑ Mykola Kapustjanskyj on the Russian Army in World War I website , accessed April 17, 2015.
4. ↑ Перепоховання громадських та військових діячів УНР ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian)