Boris Lifschitz
Boris Lifschitz (born April 10, 1879 in Kremenchuk , Russian Empire ; died December 3, 1967 in Lugano ) was a Swiss lawyer.
Life
Boris Lifschitz attended the cheder and studied at the yeshiva . He joined the Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) and fled to Switzerland after the Russian Revolution , where he began studying law in Basel in 1906 and received his doctorate in 1909. Since then he has worked as a lawyer in his own law firm in Bern . In 1912 he received Swiss citizenship . According to his own statements, he was personally acquainted with leading Russian revolutionaries, and in 1917 he had received an invitation from Lenin to go with him to revolutionary Russia . In 1918 he was legal advisor to the Bolshevik Jan Bersin in Bern and organized transfers of the confiscated funds from the overthrown Tsarist regime and the Kerensky government . In 1921 he became a member of the KPS and took part in the World Congresses of the Comintern in Moscow in 1922 and 1924 . In 1924 he announced his resignation from the KPS and entry into the Social Democratic Party .
During the Berne Trial , he played a key role in organizing the plaintiffs' litigation, but held back because of his political obligations in public. He helped with the translation of Russian-language documents, which he brokered from the archives of the USSR. When some witnesses on the plaintiff's side were covered with complaints after the trial, he defended them in court.
Lifschitz was an organizer of the economic interests of the Soviet Union in Switzerland and a partner in Soviet trading and transport companies. In 1944 he was a founding member and secretary of the "Cooperative for Trade with the USSR" and published memoranda to develop relations. From 1933 to 1950 he was consul of Nicaragua in Switzerland, but the accreditation requested by the dictator Anastasio Somoza García was prevented by Switzerland.
In 1945 Boris Lifschitz handed over the management of his law firm to his son Isidor and moved to Lugano . It was 1947 diplomatic representative of the then Communist-ruled Republic of San Marino in Liechtenstein sham residence in Vaduz , from 1949 to 1957 as charge d'affaires . He was also the representative of San Marino at the UN . Lifschitz was involved in illegal business with money, valuables and diplomatic passports, was considered a multiple millionaire and a " salon Bolshevik ". He received high medals from the European dwarf states of San Marino, Malta and Monaco .
Fonts (selection)
- The suspension crime in history. Bern. Jur. Diss. 1909/10
- Jury or lay judges? Lecture. Bern 1925
- Swiss-Russian trade relations. Lecture. Europa Verlag, Zurich 1944
literature
- Michael Hagemeister : The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in court. The Bern Trial 1933–1937 and the «Anti-Semitic International» . Chronos, Zurich 2017. Short biography on p. 545 f.
- Documents by and about Lifschitz, Boris in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Web links
- Literature by and about Boris Lifschitz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are several people with the name Boris Lifschitz or Lifschiz. Boris Lifschiz is also the maiden name of the French writer Boris Souvarine .
- ↑ a b c d Biographical information in Hagemeister, 2017, p. 545f.
- ↑ Sean McMeekin : History's Greatest Heist. The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks . Yale University Press, New Haven 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-13558-9 , p. 106
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lifschitz, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kremenchuk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1967 |
| Place of death | Lugano |