General Congress of Bukovina Congresul General al Bucovinei | |
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President | |
| Seats | 100 |
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| Czernowitz | |
TheGeneral Congress of Bukovina (Romanian:Congresul General al Bucovinei) was a self-proclaimed representative body created in the aftermath of the Romanian military intervention inBukovina, which proclaimed theunion of the region with theKingdom of Romania in 1918.
On 28 November 1918,[1] the Congress electedIancu Flondor as chairman, and voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania, with the full support of the Romanian, German, and Polish representatives; the Ukrainians did not want to participate.[2][3]
There were six Polish representatives: Bazyl Duzinkiewicz, Emil Kaminski,Stanisław (Stanislaus) Kwiatkowski, Wladislaw Pospiszil, Leopold Szweiger, and Edmund Wicentowicz.[4] Among the Romanian representatives there wereIancu Flondor, Vladimir de Repta, Dionisie Bejan,Ion Nistor, Octavian Gheorghian, Radu Sbiera, Vasile Bodnarescu, Gheorghe Şandru, Vasile Marcu, Dimitrie Bucevschi, Gheorghe Voicu, Vasile Alboi-Şandru, Ion Candrea. The German representatives were: Rudolf Gaisdorf, Viktor Glondys, Adam Hodel, Rafael Kaindl, Edwin Landwehr de Pragenau, Alois Lebouton, and Emil Wellisch.
The Congress unanimously passed a motion which mentioned:
'We, the General Congress of Bukovina, embodying the country's supreme power and being by ourselves invested with legislative power, in the name of national sovereignty, we are deciding: The unconditional and eternal union of Bukovina - within its old boundaries up to the rivers Ceremuş, Colacin, and Dniester - with the Kingdom of Romania.'
On 28 November 1918, the General Congress of Bukovina cabled to the ministers of theEntente Powers, informingLondon,Washington,Paris, andRome about the union with Romania.[5]