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Wilhelm Franz von Habsburg-Lothringen ( February 10, 1895 — August 18, 1948) — (Vasyl Vyshyvanyi) (Template:Lang-uk) — Austrian archduke, colonel of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, poet.
Wilhelm von Habsburg-Lothringen was the youngest son of Karl Stephan von Österreich and Maria Theresia von Österreich-Toskana. He was born in Pula (present day Croatia). Being a member of the Habsburg royal house he worked closely with Ukrainian deputies to the parliament of the the Austro-Hungarian Empire in an effort to gain more rights to the Ukrainian minority in the empire. During the First World War he commanded a detachment comprised of Ukrainians from Halychyna and during German and Austrian occupation of Ukraine in 1918 commanded the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen regiment stationed in Southern Ukraine. Several attempts were made to made him a sovereign of Ukraine transforming the country into monarchy — he, however, refused every time. In 1918 he was made a colonel of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic and worked for the Ministry of Defence of the country. In protest to Petlura's peace treaty with Poland in 1920 he resigned and lived in exile in Vienna. In 1921 he published a book of poetry in Ukrainian «Mynayut Dni» (Минають дні). After the Second World War he was arrested by Soviet intelligence and brought to Lukyanivska Prison in Kiev, where he died in August of 1948.