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
1912 - 1919 ukrainian galician army 18 october 1945 austro-hungary -lrb- 1914-1918 -rrb- west ukrainian national republic ukrainian 26 november 1876 june 9 , 1919 austrian military academy -lrb- 1912 -rrb- ukrainian sich riflemen ukrainian galician army odessa , soviet union world war i polish-ukrainian war state secretary of armed forces of west ukraine february 13 , 1919 captain , 1919 -rrb- colonel brigadier general quartermaster general -lrb- aug. 11 general uha viktor kurmanovych.jpg viktor kurmanovych Віктор Йосипович Курманович dmytro vitovsky vilshanytsia near zolochiv , galicia and lodomeria , austro-hungary yevhen petrushevych sydir holubovych viktor kurmanovych

viktor kurmanovych

viktor kurmanovych -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 26 november 1876 , vilshanytsia near zolochiv , galicia and lodomeria , austro-hungary -- 18 october 1945 , odessa , soviet union -rrb- was a ukrainian politician and military leader .
kurmanovych was born into a family of the greek catholic priest in the village of vilshanytsia in galicia .
after the local elementary school he was enrolled into the infanteriekadettenschule lobzow -lrb- cadet school -rrb- .
upon graduating from the cadet school kurmanovych studied at the austrian military academy in vienna which he finished in 1912 .
his first assignment was in the headquarters of general staff of the austrian army where he served in the department of intelligence .
in 1914 kurmanovych was caught by the russian operatives for spying and imprisoned .
soon in 1915 he was exchanged for some russian officer and commissioned some austrian units on the italy and bokovyna front-lines until 1918 .
with the fall of the austro-hungarian empire kurmanovych pledged his allegiance to the government of west ukraine .
kurmanovych was appointed the commander of the zhovkva group of halych army -lrb- ha -rrb- and later the southern group .
after a short while he was included to the `` supreme command of ha '' and promoted to colonel .
kurmanovych served as the chief of staff from february 13 - june 7 , 1919 simultaneously performing duties of a state secretary .
when the halych army was forced beyond the zbruch river kurmanovych 's units joined the ukrainian people 's army and he was promoted to brigadier general .
on august 11 , 1919 he became the quartermaster general at the general bulawa -lrb- military council -rrb- .
however kurmanovych ran into disagreements with other military specialists in the headquarters as well as the ongoing typhus epidemic , in september he left for baden bei wien , in austria .
in 1921-1922 kurmanovych was interned in deutsch gabel -lrb- sudetenland -rrb- .
in 1923 he worked at the automobile factory .
kurmanovych cooperated with mykola kapustiansky to organize the organization of ukrainian nationalists -lrb- oun -rrb- .
from 1933 to 1938 he lived in free city of danzig , after that moved to the carpathian ukraine .
in april 1945 kurmanovych was arrested by the soviet military counter-intelligence smersh and transferred to the soviet union .
he died in the nkvd prison hospital of odessa .
