Detsykevych, Volodymyr

Detsykevych, Volodymyr [Децикевич, Володимир; Decykevyč], b 29 December 1865 in Lviv, d 14 April 1949 in Gdańsk, Poland. Galician civic leader, chief of the Galician department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Vienna from 1906 to 1916. In 1916–18 he was the vice-president of the vicegerency in Lviv, and on 1 November 1918 the last Austrian vicegerent of Galicia, General K. Huyn, transferred his powers to Detsykevych. In 1928–38 he was a representative from the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance to the Polish Senate. In 1921–5 he headed the Board of Trustees of Higher Ukrainian Schools in Lviv and served as professor of administrative law at the Lviv (Underground) Ukrainian University. In 1927–32 he was president of the Society of Friends of Education, in 1931–2 the first president of the Ukrainian Catholic Union, and in 1930–9 the head of the trustees of the National Museum.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]