Vaclovas Sidzikauskas

Vaclovas Sidzikauskas

Vaclovas Sidzikauskas (born April 10, 1893 in Šiaudinė , Wolost Kiduliai , Šakiai district , † December 2, 1973 in Chicago ) was a Lithuanian lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Sidzikauskas attended the school in Kiduliai and graduated from the Veiveriai teacher training college in 1911 . In 1915 he passed an external school leaving certificate exams at the Moscow school district , and from 1916 studied law at the Moscow University . From 1918 to 1919 he worked in the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice , from 1919 he was department director there. In the early 1920s he continued his studies at the University of Bern , and finished it in 1935 at the law faculty of the Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas in Kaunas .

From October 1919 he worked in the newly created foreign service, helped to set up the Lithuanian mission in Switzerland and later headed the consulate general in Bern. 1922 Sidzikauskas was appointed head of the embassy in Berlin appointed, first as charge d'affaires , then from 1924 to 1931 as an extraordinary ambassador and plenipotentiary minister , from 1925 also accredited in Vienna and Bern . From 1931 to 1934 he served as the Lithuanian envoy to the court of St. James in London , with additional accreditation in The Hague . He was also involved in various missions: from 1920 to 1934 as a representative of Lithuania to the League of Nations in Geneva, and from 1931 to 1932 at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. After his mission in Great Britain, he retired from the diplomatic service and headed the Lithuanian branch of the oil company Royal Dutch Shell for several years .

From 1940 he was an employee of the NKVD . As a result of the turmoil of war in the Baltic States, he moved to the fascist German Reich in 1941 , but was arrested by the Gestapo and spent two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp . After the war he initially lived in Berlin and emigrated to the United States in 1950.

His grave is in Chicago's Mount St Mary's Cemetery.

bibliography

• Sidzikauskas, Vaclovas. Lietuvos Diplomatijos Paraštėje . Vaga, Vilnius, 1994. p. 354 ISBN 5-415-00400-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter, Munich. P. 256. 2001. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
2. ^ Alfred Erich Senn : Vaclovas Sidzikauskas on the Early Years of Lithuanian Diplomacy ( English ) In: Lituanus . Lituanus Foundation, Inc., Chicago, Il .. 1975. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
3. ↑ Vidas Stropus: Niujorke pagerbtas Lietuvos diplomato Vaclovo Sidzikausko atminimas ( Lithuanian ) Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius. 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Office newly created	Lithuanian envoy to the German Empire 1922–1931	Jurgis Šaulys
Kazys Bizauskas	Lithuanian Envoy to the United Kingdom 1931–1934	Bronius Kazys Balutis