Adolfas Kubilius

Adolfas Kubilius
Kubilius with uniform of the Lithuanian Armed Forces during the interwar period
Commander of the
Žemaičiai military district
In office
March 1945 – 9 March 1946
Succeeded byJonas Semaška
Personal details
Born(1918-07-26)26 July 1918
Budriai [lt], Kretinga district municipality, Lithuania
Died9 March 1946(1946-03-09) (aged 27)
Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
OccupationLithuanian partisan
Military service
Allegiance Lithuania
Years of service1940 (Lithuanian Army)
1943-1946 (Lithuanian Liberty Army)

Adolfas Kubilius (26 July 1918 – 9 March 1946), also known by his codenames Balys, Radvila, or Vaišvila, was a Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan and a commander of partisans in the Samogitia region.

Kubilius was a teacher during interwar Lithuania. In 1940 he was conscripted into the Lithuanian army but was quickly demobilized due to the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. At the beginning of Nazi occupation of Lithuania, Kubilius studied journalism in Vytautas Magnus University, though after persecutions by the Gestapo began, he went into hiding and joined the Lithuanian Liberty Army, becoming one of its leaders,[1] and began organizing men in Samogitia, establishing the Samogitian Legion. He was captured in 1945 and sentenced to be shot in 1946.[2][3]

  1. ^ Gaškaitė, Nijolė (2006). Pasipriešinimo Istorija. AIDAI. p. 54. ISBN 9955-656-32-8.
  2. ^ "Adolfas Kubilius". vle.lt. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023.
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