Eduard Karlowitsch Pramnek

Eduard Karlowitsch Pramnek ( Russian Эдуард Карлович Прамнек ; Latvian Eduards Prāmnieks ; * December 19 ^July / December 31, 1899 ^greg. In Jaunrauna near Cēsis ; † July 29, 1938 ) was a Soviet party and state official.

Life

Pramnek, son of a farm laborer, worked as a bricklayer at the age of 13. In 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP). He agitated among the youth of his home district. From 1919 to 1921 he served in the Red Army and was responsible, among other things, for political work among the Latvian riflemen . Pramnek took part in the fighting on the western and southern fronts and was involved in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising in 1921.

From 1921 to 1924 he studied at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West , then at Sverdlovsk University. 1924 sent to the party in Nizhny Novgorod . From 1929 he was secretary of the government committee and the Okrug committee of the Communist Party of Vyatka . Pramnek was a delegate of the XIV. (1925) up to and including XVII. (1934) Party Congress of the CPSU. On the XVII. Congress (1934) he was elected candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1930 to 1934 he was second, then from 1934 to 1937 first secretary of the Krai and Oblast Committee (Obkom) of the Communist Party of Gorky . From 1937 he was secretary of the Obkom of the Communist Party of Donetsk and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Pramnek was also a member of the Central Executive Committee and the Central Electoral Commission of the USSR. In December 1937 he was also elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Pramnek was arrested on May 9, 1938 and, in July 1938, a victim of the Stalin purges . In 1956 he was rehabilitated by the party.

literature

Wladislaw Hedeler , Steffen Dietzsch : Chronicle of the Moscow show trials in 1936, 1937 and 1938: planning, staging and effect . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003, passim (especially p. 649).

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SURNAME	Pramnek, Eduard Karlowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Prāmnieks, Eduards
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet state and party functionary
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jaunrauna at Cēsis
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1938