Hanibal Orațiu Dobjanski
Mayor of Chişinău
In office
1941–1941
Preceded byVladimir Cristi
Succeeded byNicolae Costin
Personal details
Born1893
Botoșani
Died1994
Bucharest
Resting placeBucharest
Nationalityromanian of polish origin

Anibal Dobjanski (Hanibal Orațiu Dobjanski;[1] 1893 – 1994) was a Romanian military man, colonel in the Romanian Army, former mayor of Chişinău in 1941, and was thus the last mayor of the Romanian administration in Moldovan.

Biography

Relatively, in the mid-19th, the Dobjanski's family which is of polish origin has immigrated to Botoșani County (at the time of the Principality of Moldavia). Being from Botoșani, he graduated from the Boys' School no.1 Marchian, then the A.T Laurian High School. He attended military studies at the Târgoviște Superior School of Cavalry, which he graduated with the rank of second lieutenant.

He is the nephew of Corneliu Dobjanski, a well-known lawyer and magistrate of that time at the Botoșani Court, who also owned an antique building, which is still preserved in the Botoșani.

Dobjanski took part in the war with Bulgaria of 1913 and participated in First World War, starting in 1916 with the rank of lieutenant.

In 1918 he came to Chișinău as a captain. He led the 3 Roșiori Regiment that was located in Chișinău, and then, led 2 Roșiori Regiment "Prunaru", and after a while he returned to the old regiment. For a time he was the Prefect of Lăpușna county.

Then, in 1922, he decided to stay in Chișinău in 1922, being proactive in various activities: cultural, sports, elite and so on. He retired in time on the arrival of the Red Army, but in 1941 he returned to the army and was appointed as a Mayor of Chișinău, during that time the city was destroyed by bombings and Soviet commandos. He was released from the position of mayor of Chișinău on 30 September 1944.[2]

Dobjanski wrote sketches, literary studies, lyrics and even wrote and edited a book of novels, called "Pages from life." He also published some memoirs about the poet Alexei Mateevici.[2]

Honours and awards

He donated all his medals got from the front (and not only) in the 80 ', to the Botoșani County Museum.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Primarii capitalei basarabene - LimbaRomana", Limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=2550, retrieved March 17, 2020
  2. 1 2 "În culisele Istoriei /// Primari uitați ai Chișinăului", Timpul - Ştiri din Moldova, retrieved March 17, 2020
  3. ↑ "Dobjanski, Anibal" (PDF), Memoria oltului și romanaților, Anul VII, nr.1 (71): 30, 31, January 2018, archived from the original (PDF) on March 17, 2020, retrieved March 17, 2020


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