The building of the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava at Lielaja Street 2, where in 1943-1944 members of the Central Council of Latvia worked in
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Several members of the academic unit “Austrums” and the Central Council of Latvia, secretly established in Riga on August 13, 1943, worked at the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava (Mītava) (today - the Latvian University of Biosciences and Technologies) in 1943-1944 - professors Rūdolfs Markuss, Andrejs Teikmanis, Alfrēds Tauriņš and other teaching staff. On March 10, 1944, Vilis Eihe, an assistant professor at the Agricultural Academy, together with his wife Aleksandrs and assistant Hermanis Zeltiņš, printed the LCP’s illegal newspaper “Jaunā Latvija” in Jelgava using a duplicating machine. It provided news about Latvia’s international situation and set out further guidelines for Latvian political life. Among the 188 Latvian socio-political workers who, in the LCP memorandum of March 17, 1944, expressed the need to restore an independent and democratic Republic of Latvia based on the 1922 Constitution, were the academic staff of the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava - professors Jānis Vārsbergs, Pāvils Kvelde, A. Teikmanis and R. Markuss.
Used sources and references:
H. Biezais. The organized resistance of Latvian academic circles to the German occupation // Treji Vārti, No. 147, pp. 45-52.
U. Neiburgs. Press publications of the Latvian national resistance movement in Latvia during the German occupation (1941-1945) // Bulletin of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 2000, No. 1/2, pp. 52-53.
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I. Kvāle (comp.). With a signature about Latvia. Biographies of the signatories of the Memorandum of the Latvian Central Council. Riga: Latvian War Museum, 2014, pp. 11-29, 46-47, 56-57, 60-61, 68-69.
