Antin Varivoda | |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1869 |
Birth Place: | Siret, Austria-Hungary (now Romania) |
Death Place: | Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) |
Branch: | USS |
Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel Colonel |
Commands: | Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Ukrainian Galician Army |
Antin Varivoda (Ukrainian: Анті́н Вариво́да|Antin Varyvoda) (10 January 1869 - 12 March 1936) was a Ukrainian Commander of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and Colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army.
Varivoda was born in the city of Siret in Bukovina.[1]
He graduated from the Austrian officers' school. From the beginning of the First World War he led a sotnia in the Austrian army.
From 16 March to 30 September 1916 in the rank of colonel (oberstleutnant) in the Austro-Hungarian army, the commandant of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.[2]
During the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919) he was Colonel in the Ukrainian Galician Army. Appointed a member of the liquidation commission, he dealt with the return of Ukrainian soldiers from Austria and Italy to their homeland. In 1920 he commanded a brigade of interned Ukrainian Galician Army soldiers in Liberec (Czechoslovakia) and Jablonne (Germany).[3] [4]
He lived in Vienna, where he died on 12 March 1936.[3] [5]