Vytautas Landsbergis

Professor Vytautas Landsbergis (born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian conservative politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas.

Vytautas Landsbergis
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Chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (de jure Head of State)
In office 11 March 1990 – 25 November 1992
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Algirdas Brazauskas (as the President of Lithuania) Česlovas Juršėnas (as the Acting Speaker of the Seimas)
Speaker of the Seimas
In office 25 November 1996 – 19 October 2000
Preceded by	Česlovas Juršėnas
Succeeded by	Artūras Paulauskas
Chairman of the Homeland Union
In office 1 May 1993 – 24 May 2003
Preceded by	Post created
Succeeded by	Andrius Kubilius
Member of the European Parliament for Lithuania
In office 2004–2014
Personal details
Born	18 October 1932 (aged 93) Kaunas, Lithuania
Political party	Homeland Union
Spouse(s)	Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė
Signature	Vytautas Landsbergis's signature

Vytautas Landsbergis Media

• Vytautas Landsbergis speaks at Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact 50th Anniversary Rally in Kalnų park, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1989.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis speaks at Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact 50th Anniversary Rally in Kalnai Park, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1989.

• Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania Vytautas Landsbergis (Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990).jpg

  Landsbergis playing a piano in his cabinet soon after his election as the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania – Reconstituent Seimas in 1990

• Leaders of the Supreme Council of Lithuania on 11 March 1990.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis (in the middle) on 11 March 1990, after the promulgation of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

• 2009 m. Respublikos Prezidento inauguracija 10.jpg

  Landsbergis with his wife during the inauguration of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, 2009

• 0147 Konzert und Ausstellung mit Vytautas Landsbergis zum Thema Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis – Komponist in Sanok, 2013.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis plays piano in Sanok (Poland) at Cultural Center salon, 2013

• Landsbergis by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg

  Vytautas Landsbergis

Other websites

Media related to Vytautas Landsbergis at Wikimedia Commons

• Vytautas Landsbergis biography Archived 2004-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
• The Restoration of Lithuanian Independence Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine Freedom Collection interview