Kazys Musteikis

Kazys Musteikis (November 22, 1894 – June 6, 1977) was a Lithuanian military brigadier general, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence in 1938–1940.[1][2]

Kazys Musteikis
Born(1894-11-22)November 22, 1894
Stučiai village, Tauragnai District
DiedJune 6, 1977(1977-06-06) (aged 82)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
NationalityLithuanian
OccupationBrigadier general of the Lithuanian army
Spouse(s)Gražina Musteikienė
ChildrenKazimieras Musteikis,
Marija Gražina Musteikytė
AwardsOrder of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, 3rd Class
Order of Vytautas the Great, 3rd Class

Biography

On September 1939 in the beginning of the Invasion of Poland and the World War II he supported Lithuania's neutrality and was against Adolf Hitler's call to Lithuanians to attack Vilnius. After receiving the 1940 Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania on the night of 14–15 June 1940 during the last meeting of the Lithuanian government held in Kaunas he urged to decline the ultimatum and argued for military resistance. On 15 June 1940 he called on the 9th Infantry Regiment of Marijampolė to cover the departure of the President Antanas Smetona and to symbolically resist the Army of the Soviet Union, the regiment marched but was stopped in Vilkaviškis. The same day he left for Germany.[3] He died in Chicago in 1977.

Musteikis was a recipient of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas 3rd Class (1929), the Order of Vytautas the Great 3rd Class (1935) and other medals.

References
  1. "Kazys Musteikis (1894 - 1977) - Genealogy". Geni.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  2. Gureckas, Algimantas. "Ar Lietuva galėjo išsigelbėti 1939–1940 metais?". lrytas.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  3. Musteikis, Kazys (1970). Atsiminimai: Prisiminimų fragmentai.
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