Dmytro Vitovsky

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Dmytro Vitovsky

Colonel, West Ukrainian People's Republic

Born	8 November 1887 Medukha, Galicia
Died	July 8, 1919 Ratibor, Germany
Nationality	Ukrainian

Dmytro Vitovsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Вітовський) (b. 8 November 1887, Medukha, Galicia; d. 8 July 1919, Racibórz, Silesia, Germany) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader.

He was one of the leaders of the Galician student youth and a fighter for the Ukrainian university in Lviv. He became a member of the Ukrainian Radical Party and an active organizer of a number of Ukrainian "Sich" groups, which later became part of the regular Galician Army.

He started his active military career in 1914 participating in mountain battles in the Carpathians, and was an ideologist of Ukrainian military political thought. He became a colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army. He was co-founder of the Striletsky Found, and published the official newspaper of the Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsi Shlyahy ('The Ways'). In 1916-1917 he was a Ukrainian military commissar in Volhynia, and organized Ukrainian schools there. In 1918 he was among the organizers of the military uprising in Lviv. He headed the State secretary of military affairs in the ZUNR. Later he became a diplomat, defending the interests of his country abroad. He was a member of the Western Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in May 1919. He perished in an aircraft crash during the flight from Paris to Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1919 and was buried in Berlin.