Vitovsky, Dmytro [Vitovs’kyj], b 8 November 1887 in Medukha,
Stanyslaviv county, Galicia, d 8 July 1919 near Ratibor,
Silesia, Germany. (Photo: Dmytro Vitovsky.) Military officer. A
student activist at Lviv University, he later organized
educational and paramilitary organizations in Stanyslaviv.
During the First World War he served in the Legion of Ukrainian
Sich Riflemen as a company commander and carried out special
assignments. He was chairman of the Ukrainian Military
Committee, which staged the November Uprising in Lviv, 1918. He
was briefly (1–5 November 1918) the first commander of the
Ukrainian Galician Army and then minister of defense of the
Western Ukrainian National Republic (until 13 February 1919). On
1 January 1919 he was promoted from major to colonel. After
serving on the Ukrainian National Rada (February–April 1919) he
attended the Paris Peace Conference as a member of the Western
Ukrainian delegation. On the return flight his plane crashed,
and he was killed. [This article originally appear