Mykolas Römeris - politikos studijų Lietuvoje iniciatorius

LTLietuvos konstitucinės teisės mokslo kūrėjas, ilgametis VDU rektorius Mykolas Römeris, tęsdamas garbingas demokratines savo giminės tradicijas, tapo politikos studijų Lietuvoje iniciatoriumi. Įtakos tam turėjo puikus išsimokslinimas, įgytas Rusijoje ir Vakarų Europoje, Lietuvos politinės raidos gilus suvokimas ir ryškėjančių tendencijų numatymas [p. 122].

ENIn the 1930s, Mykolas Römeris, the founder of the constitutional law in Lithuania, rector of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas for many years, was the initiator of political studies in Lithuania. Having studied at St. Petersburg Imperial School of Law and Paris Free School of Political Studies, he understood well the geopolitical situation of Lithuania and the need to found, following other countries, a special institution for political science and studies. At the beginning of 1933 the organising committee of the school for political studies headed by Römeris was formed, its Statute and programme consisting of 5 blocks were prepared. In October 1933 the society of the School for political studies was registered whose main task was to found and maintain a private scientific and educational institution. In spite of a favourable opinion of the officials on Römeris’s project, its registration at the Ministry of Education was delayed. In 1937 the initiators, seeing that their attempts were fruitless, gave up their plans and stopped the existence of the society which actually had not begun its activity. Democratic and pluralistic ideas and principles on which the programme of the studies was based, were not acceptable for the supporters of the strong presidential rule, were contrary to authoritarian ideas. On the initiative of Izidorius Tamošaitis, the ideologue of Nationalists, and others in May 1933 the Institute of Social and Political Studies was founded, and Römeris’s idea of the school of political studies in Kaunas was overshadowed.