Aleksandras Stulginskis
Politician
1885 – 1969
Who was Aleksandras Stulginskis?
Aleksandras Stulginskis. Stulginskis was also acting President of Lithuania for a few hours later in 1926, following a military coup that was led by his predecessor as President (Antanas Smetona) and which had brought down Stulginskis' successor, Kazys Grinius. The coup returned Smetona to office after Stulginskis' brief formal assumption of the Presidency.
He began his theological studies in Kaunas and continued in Innsbruck, Austria. However, he decided not to become a priest and moved to the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in University of Halle. He graduated in 1913 and returned to Lithuania. There he started to work as a farmer. He published many articles on agronomy in Lithuanian press. In 1918 he started to publish journals Ūkininkas ("Farmer") and Ūkininko kalendorius ("Farmer's Calendar").
During World War I he moved to Vilnius. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and the head of its Central Committee in 1917. He signed the memorandum for the president Woodrow Wilson, addressing the question of the recognition of the Lithuanian statehood by the U.S..
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- Born
- Feb 26, 1885
Šilalė District Municipality - Also known as
- Стульгинскис, Александрас
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Profession
- Education
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Lived in
- Kaunas
- Died
- Sep 22, 1969
Kaunas
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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