Edmundas Simanaitis

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Edmundas Simanaitis (born January 5, 1929 in Marijampolė , † February 27, 2017 ) was a conservative politician from Lithuania . He was Mayor of Jonava Rajonggemeinde 1995–1997 and Deputy Minister of Defense of Lithuania from 1997–2000 .

family

His father Juozas Simanaitis was a bricklayer. His mother was a housewife. There were three children in the family: Edmundas, his sister Ramutė, and his brother Vaclovas. In January 1945 the father, a former Lithuanian shooter , was arrested by the NKVD and deported to Russia, where he worked in coal mines in the Urals and then in Sheqasghan (Kazakhstan).

Simanaitis was married and has three sons with his wife Gražina.

Life

Edmundas Simanaitis attended Marijampolė High School . Many years later he studied at the Politechnikos institutas (KPI) in Kaunas and then taught there. In 1960 he completed a diploma in electromechanics at the Political Engineering Institute of Northwest Leningrad . From 1960 to 1963 he worked in Kapsukas ( Soviet Lithuania ) as an energy manager and, from 1963 in Jonava , as a mine manager, after which he was sub-department manager of " Azotas ". From 1989 to 1991 he was a professor at the institute in Kaunas.

From 1995 to 1997 Simanaitis was mayor of Jonava and from 1997 to 2000 Deputy Minister of Defense of Lithuania , deputy of Česlovas Vytautas Stankevičius (* 1937). From 2005 to 2009 he worked as an advisor to the President of Lithuania .

From 1993 Simanaitis was a member of Tėvynės Sąjunga - Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai .

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personal data
SURNAME Simanaitis, Edmundas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian politician, mayor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Marijampolė , Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2017