serviceyears branch death_date allegiance nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater commands death_place battles order term_start rank image name predecessor birth_place successor primeminister article_title
1914 - 1919 ukrainian galician army 8 july 1919 austro-hungary -lrb- 1914-1918 -rrb- west ukrainian national republic ukrainian 8 november 1887 february 13 , 1919 lviv university ukrainian sich riflemen ukrainian galician army racibórz , silesia , germany world war i polish-ukrainian war state secretary of armed forces of west ukraine november 9 , 1918 captain colonel -lrb- jan. 1 , 1919 -rrb- vitovsky dmytro.jpg dmytro vitovsky Дмитро Вітовський position created medukha austro-hungary , stanislau powiat , galicia and lodomeria , viktor kurmanovych kost levytsky sydir holubovych dmytro vitovsky

dmytro vitovsky

dmytro vitovsky -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 8 november 1887 , medukha , stanislau powiat , galicia and lodomeria , austro-hungary -- 8 july 1919 , racibórz , silesia , germany -rrb- was a ukrainian politician and military leader .
vitovsky was born into a family of gentry .
in the village of medukha in galicia -lrb- today in halych raion -rrb- .
he graduated from the stanislau gymnasium and later was a student activist at the law school of lviv university .
later vitovsky joined the ukrainian radical party and was an active organizer of a number of ukrainian educational and scouting `` sich '' groups near stanislau , which later became part of the regular galician army .
vitovsky started his active military career in 1914 participating in mountain battles in the carpathians , and was an ideologist of ukrainian military political thought .
in 1916-1917 he was a ukrainian military commissar in volhynia , and organized ukrainian schools there .
vitovsky also was co-founder of the striletsky found , and published the official newspaper of the ukrainian sich riflemen , `` shliakhy '' -lrb- ` the pathways ' -rrb- .
he became a company commander of the legion of sich riflemen and carried out special assignments -lrb- guerrilla warfare -rrb- .
towards the end of the world war i vitovsky was appointed the chairman of ukrainian military committee that organized the takeover of lviv .
he became the first commander of the ukrainian galician army -lrb- november 1 -- 5 , 1918 -rrb- .
a week later after being commissioned as the first commander of the galician army vitovsky was appointed as the state secretary of armed forces in levytsky 's government .
on january 1 , 1919 he was promoted from major to colonel .
as a deputy of the ukrainian national rada -lrb- february - april , 1919 -rrb- vitovsky was chosen to attend the paris peace conference as a member of the western ukrainian delegation , in may 1919 .
vitovsky perished in an aircraft crash during the flight from paris to kamyanets-podilsky in july 1919 and was buried in berlin .
