Jonas Paulius Lenktaitis

Jonas Paulius Lenktaitis ( – 4 February 2003) was a Lithuanian jurist, businessman, and director of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society. Lenktaitis studied economy and law at the University of Lithuania, That same year he established the Patria publishing house.

World War II In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the Council of Peoples' Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR made Lenktaitis responsible for creating the administration of the Vilnius State Philharmony. Lenktaitis's official job was administrating concerts. After the June Uprising in 1941, Juozas Ambrazevičius, the Minister of Education of the provisional Lithuanian government, ordered Lenktaitis to save the Philharmony from possible closure. In 1942, with the help of and the mayor of Vilnius colonel , the Vilnius State Philharmonic Opera was established. Lenktaitis and his wife, a chorister of the Philharmony, would invite and treat German officers to remain in favor. However, for refusing to recruit young Lithuanians to join the German army, Lenktaitis was arrested by the Gestapo on 15 March 1943 and sent to Stutthof concentration camp.

Emigration Lenktaitis was released from the concentration camp after forty days, possibly due to his business connections. Lenktaitis then moved to West Germany, where he re-established the Patria publishing house. It was the most productive Lithuanian émigré publisher of the time. He was buried in .