Albinas Albertynas (28 February 1934 – 26 May 2005) was a Lithuanian politician and former member of the

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Biography

Albertynas was born to a peasant family in Kampiškiai village,

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on 28 February 1934. In 1944, he retreated with his family to Germany from the approaching Eastern front, but returned to its lands after the war. In 1950 Albertynas enrolled with the Kaunas gardening technical school. 1952 he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of incarceration for breach of

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of the penal code. Albertynas was released in 1954, after the death of

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, and continued his studies. In 1961 he started working on a

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and worked there for the next thirty years. With Lithuania moving towards independence, Albertynas started participating in the activities of

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. In the elections in 1992, Albertynas was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas in the single-seat constituency of

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(62). Although not a member of any party, he was endorsed in the elections by the

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. Albertynas died on 26 May 2005.

References

1934 births 2005 deaths Members of the Seimas Independent politicians in Lithuania People from Vilkaviškis District Municipality {{Lithuania-politician-stub