Aron Alexandrowitsch Solz

Aron Alexandrowitsch Solz ( Russian Арон Александрович Сольц , scientific transliteration Aron Aleksandrovič Sol'c ; born March 10, 1872 in Soleniki (today: Šalčininkai in Lithuania ); † April 30, 1945 in Moscow ) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary of the 20th century . Century.

Life

Solz was born into a Jewish merchant family in Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire . He studied law in St. Petersburg , where he came into contact with revolutionary circles. From 1898 he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party . During the underground work in the following years he met Stalin .

After the October Revolution, Solz held leading positions in the public prosecutor's office and judiciary in the Soviet Union . From 1931 to 1933 he was one of the managers responsible for the construction of the White Sea Canal , in which for the first time large-scale forced labor was the means of realizing a major project in the USSR. During the ' Great Terror ' from 1937 to 1938 he advocated a 'certain preservation' of legality. He was released from office in 1938 and admitted to a psychiatric clinic . However, he was released in the early 1940s.

literature

• Louis Rapoport: hammer, sickle, star of David. Persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-86153-030-5 , p. 59 f.
• Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 13 . Sovetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1971, col. 336. (Russian)

Web links

• Biography (russian)