Aleksandras Stulginskis

( Listen / i?) Aleksandras Stulginskis ( born February 26, 1885 Kutaliai, now Rajongemeinde Šilalė, † ​​September 22, 1969 in Kaunas) was the second President of Lithuania ( 1920-1926 ), founding member of the Christian Democratic Party of Lithuania was founded in 1917 and Chairman of the Party Central Committee, member of the Lithuanian Council (later the State Council ), a signatory to the agreement signed on February 16, 1918 Declaration of Independence of Lithuania.

Life

Stulginskis was born into a family that was involved in agriculture. He received his education at the elementary school in Kaltinenai and in church Liepaja -Gymnasium in Kaunas. After completing high school he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Innsbruck. After you decide to focus not priests career, he studied from 1910 to 1913 and from 1914 to 1915 at the Institute of Agronomy in Hall, situated on the oldest agricultural faculty in Germany.

In 1913 he began to work in Lithuania as an agronomist and wrote much in the then Lithuanian press, mostly on problems of agricultural development.

When the Germans occupied Lithuania, he moved to Vilnius and engaged in Lithuanian organizations, organized eg training courses for primary school teachers and social activities.

1917 Stulginskis was one of the founding members of the Christian Democratic Party and was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Party. He was one of the organizers of the Lithuanian Conference in Vilnius, where he in the Lithuanian Council (later State) was selected. On February 16, 1918, he signed the Declaration of Independence.

In May 1920, the Chairman of the Constituent Seimas and was elected president. 1922 and 1923, he came again elected chairman of the Seimas. He held until 1926 president.

After the coup d'etat of December 17, 1926 Stulginskis was again appointed Chairman of the Seimas 4 until the Seimas was dissolved. Stulginskis retired to his estate, and applied only in the press to speak. In the first World Congress of Lithuanians, he warned of the observance of democratic principles in Lithuania.

After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union Stulginskis was arrested with his wife. He spent several years in the Gulag, he was allowed to return in 1956, after the death of Stalin, to Lithuania.

1969 died Stulginskis in Kaunas, where he is buried.

A plaque in honor of the second President of the Republic of Lithuania and former students of the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg ( MLU), January was unveiled in Hall 2011. The German - Lithuanian society had donated the plaque.

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