Kazimieras Venclauskis

LTKnyga skiriama advokato, visuomenės ir kultūros veikėjo K.Venclauskio (1880-1940) istoriniam atminimui įamžinti. Pirmame skyriuje - atskiru autorių straipsniai, kuriuose apibūdinamas K.Venclauskio gyvenimas, profesinė, visuomeninė, politinė ir kultūrinė veikla. Antrame skyriuje publikuojami spausdinti šaltiniai - K.Venclauskio amžininkų atsiminimai.

ENThis year (2000) we commemorate the 120th anniversary of Kazimieras Venclauskis’ birth and the 60th anniversary of his death (1880 02 27 - 1940 02 24). The better part of his life (1908-1940) was spent in Šiauliai. K.Venclauskis was a noted lawyer, public figure politician, and the man who undertook the organization of the municipal government for Šiauliai. After the restauration of an independent Republic of Lithuania (1918), he was the first mayor of Šiauliai. After that (1919-1920) he headed the Šiauliai county government. Elected to Steigiamasis Seimas (Constituent Assembly; 1920) and to the following parliaments, he was a chairman of the Social Democratic faction. From 1925 K.Venclauskis was a member of the Lithuanian Lawyers’ Council. He also headed "Kultūros” bendrovė (Association "Culture”). For long years he was an officer of the Šiauliai Regional Association of Consumer Co-operative Societies. K.Venclauskis is considered to be one of the most distinct personalities of Šiauliai elite during Lithuania’s years of independence between the two world wars. Due to his skills and insistence, K.Venclauskis became the public and cultural figure noted not only in Šiauliai, but also in the whole country. He deserved the honorable place in Lithuanian history of the 20 th century. To immortalize his personality, the Šiauliai Aušros Museum compiled and released the book “Kazimieras Venclauskis”. This book is also an attempt to lead this noble figure into pages of historic publications, to stimulate fur ther research of his life and various activities, since they haven’t been widely illuminated up to now. The book is divided into two parts.The first one - "Features of K.Venclauskis" Life and Activities” - contains the articles describing K.Venclauskis’ life and his many-sided professional, political, social, and cultural work. The second part of the publication - "Reminiscences of Contemporaries” - includes S. Kairys’, O.Kairiene’s, K. Bielinis’, J.Vilkaitis’ memoirs about K. Venclauskis, which have been published in 1940, in the social, political, and cultural newspaper "Mintis” (The Thought), issued by So-I cial-Democrats (editor — O.Leonaite-Kairiene).