Yulian Rewaj government

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The government of Julijan Rewaj , led by Prime Minister Julijan Rewaj ( Ukrainian Юліян Ревай , Czech Július Révay ), was the first and only government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine . She was in office from March 15, 1939 to March 18, 1939. The previous government, the Avgustyn Voloschyn III government , was the last government of the autonomous state of Czecho-Slovakia from 1938–1939. After the country was completely occupied by Hungarian army units on March 18, 1939, the independent state ceased to exist in just three days.

Government formation

Prime Minister of the independent Carpathian Ukraine in 1939

A few sources state that the Prime Minister of the first (and only) government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine was Avgustyn Voloshyn. This can be read, for example, on a subpage of the Ukrainian government; Similar information can also be found in other sources, which, however, state vaguely that Voloshyn was elected president and the government was appointed without naming the prime minister. In all other sources Yulian Rewaj is clearly named as Prime Minister, including on Ukrainian government websites as well as on encyclopedias, on the website of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic and on others, sometimes with the indication that Rewaj as Prime Minister "in absentia" was appointed because he was traveling to Berlin to negotiate with Adolf Hitler . The decisive factor here, however, is the work and information of the Russian-Ukrainian publicists and historians Pyotr Godmasch and Sergei Godmasch, which are confirmed by the identical information in the chronological overview of the Хронос server (Chronos) and which refer to the decisions of the Sojm Parliament . After that, Julijan Rewaj has clearly been installed as prime minister.

Government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine 1939

On the night of March 13-14 , 1939, the units of the Czechoslovak Army under the command of General Prchala were able to thwart an attempted coup by the pro-fascist organization Karpatská Sič (Karpati Sich / Карпатська Січ); the Sič was - like the Hlinka Garden in Slovakia - an instrument of German politics with the aim of smashing Czecho-Slovakia. However, after the Slovak state was proclaimed on March 14, 1939 and the area of ​​the Carpathian Ukraine in the south was attacked by Hungarian units, the Carpathian Ukraine also declared independence on March 15, 1939, whereby the federal Czecho-Slovakia with its autonomous regions perished at that time it was called by the German side as " smashing the rest of the Czech Republic ".

In this confusing situation, several attempts to find a solution were made at the same time to establish a government. The historian Godmasch mentions in two of his works that on March 14, 1939 at 5 p.m., Voloshyn, at that time still Prime Minister of the autonomous Carpathian Ukraine, gave a speech on the Khust radio station , in which he stated, among other things, that the circumstances were a statement of the Make independence and the establishment of a new government inevitable. In this context, he circulated a proposal for the future composition of the government with him as Prime Minister and Revaj as Foreign Minister. Other possible ministers named Yuri Perevuznyk, Stepan Klotschurak, Yuli Brashchajko and Nikolaj Dolinaj. This speech was circulated the next day in the daily newspaper "Neue Freiheit" ( Нова свобода ). It is essential that this has only been declared as a proposal that has not yet been approved by the Parliament (Sojm) of Carpathian Ukraine - which was responsible for appointing a government.

On March 15, 1939, the Parliament of Carpathian Ukraine met for its first and only plenary session. It passed the declaration of independence and declared all MPs of the previously autonomous Carpathian Ukraine to be MPs of the proclaimed new state. Avgustyn Voloshyn was also appointed president. Volozhyn immediately submitted a proposal with members of the government, which was discussed by parliament. After that the government was appointed.

On March 18, 1939, the territory of Carpathian Ukraine was occupied by the Hungarian army.

Government composition

In its session on March 15, 1939, the Parliament of Carpathian Ukraine decided to form a government with the following composition:

The composition of the short-lived and only government of independent Ukraine in 1939 in various sources can contradict one another, sometimes considerably.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The composition of the government of Julijan Rewaj given here is largely confirmed by the works of the historians Pjotr ​​Godmasch and Sergej Godmasch cited here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Уряди Карпатської України - Історія (Government of Carpathian Ukraine), portal of the Ukrainian government, online at: kmu.gov.ua/control/uk / ...
  2. ↑ Ivan Pop: Dějiny Rusínů (I). PODKARPATSKÁ RUS V ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ REPUBLICE (1919-1939) , online at: rusyn.sk / ... ( Memento of November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); Složení nezávislé vlády , online at: zakarpattia.net / ...
  3. ↑ Složení nezávislé vlády , composition of the government of the independent Carpathian Ukraine, online at: zakarpattia.net / ...
  4. ↑ ЮЛІАН РЕВАЙ , curriculum vitae of the institute Український інститут національної пам'яті (Ukrainian Institute for National Memory), online on the server of the Ukrainian Government at: memory.gov.ua / ... ; also До 70-ої річниці Карпатської України , subpage of the Ukrainian government, online at: vberez.gov.ua / ...
  5. ↑ РЕВАЙ Юліан , keyword (curriculum vitae) in the Енциклопедія історії України ( Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ), Vol. 9, page 147, ed. vom Інститут історії України (Institute of the History of Ukraine), 2012, ISBN 978-966-00-1290-5 , online at (slow): history.org.ua / ... , direct link to the excerpt of the keyword (fast): resource.history.org.ua / ...
  6. ↑ a b Jiří Plachý: Tragické březnové dny roku 1939 na Podkarpatské Rusi , publication of the Vojenský historický ústav VHÚ (Military History Institute) of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, online at: vhu.cz / ...
  7. ↑ Revai, Iuliian / Revay, Julian , report on the server of The World Academy of Carpatho-Rusyn Culture , online at: rusyn.org / ... ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); also Ivan Pop: Osobnosti našich dějín - VOLOŠIN Augustin , online at: rusyn.sk / ... ( Memento from October 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b Pyotr Godmasch and Sergei Godmasch: История республики Подкарпатская Русь (history of the Republic Carpathian Russia), Chapter 13, Подкарпатская Русь - суверенная республика - История республики Подкарпатская Русь , a publication of the Institute of History and Philology, Uzhhorod / Bratislava / Uzhhorod 2005- 2007, online at karpatorusyn.org / ...
  9. ↑ a b Pyotr Godmasch: ИСТОРИЯ СУВЕРЕННОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ЗАКАРПАТСКАЯ УКРАИНА (ПОДКАРПАТСКАЯ РУСЬ) ДЛЯ НАcont / ... r , only there : facebook / ... r , online at: facebook
  10. ↑ a b "Карпатская Украина" 1938-1939 гг. , chronological overview 1938–1939, project Хронос, online at: hrono.info / ...
  11. ↑ Zpráva pplk. Antonína Zemana - Barovského o událostech na Podkarpatské Rusi v březnu 1939 (report by a commander of the Czechoslovak army on the events in Carpathian Ukraine in March 1939), in: Securitas imperii No. 26, pp. 170f. and 183ff., publication by the ÚSTR Institute , online at: ustrcr.cz / ...
  12. ↑ Ivan Pop: Osobnosti našich dějín - VOLOŠIN Augustin , online at: rusyn.sk/...augustin ( Memento from October 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Ivan Pop: Osobnosti našich dejín - PRCHALA Lev , online at: rusyn.sk/...lev

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