Frol Romanowitsch Koslow

Frol Kozlov ( Russian Фрол Романович Козлов * August 5 ^{. Jul} / 18th August  1908 ^greg. In Losch Chi Nino in Kasimov , Ryazan Governorate ; †  the thirtieth January 1965 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Life

Ascent

Koslow came from a small farming family. At the age of 18 he became a member of the WKP (B) in 1926 . He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute , soon afterwards became a party functionary and made a rapid career there: 1940 to 1944 secretary of the Izhevsk city ​​committee , 1944 to 1947 in the apparatus of the central committee of the WKP (B), 1947 to 1949 second secretary in the regional committee of Kuibyshev , 1949 until 1952 secretary of the Leningrad City Committee, 1952 to 1953 second secretary and 1953 to 1957 first secretary of the Leningrad Oblast Committee . In 1952, at the age of 44, he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. This was followed by a steep rise to the leadership levels of the party and government.

At the center of power

In 1957, the Leningrad party leader Kozlov was elected candidate for the Politburo and in the same year a full member of the highest political body in the country, the Presidium of the CPSU , for the period from June 29, 1957 to November 16, 1964. From March 31 From 1958 to May 4, 1960, he was also First Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR in the cabinet of Nikita Khrushchev . In the government he was responsible for the complex of industry. In 1960 he replaced Alexei Kirichenko as secretary of the party's central committee and was responsible for the party's important cadre (personnel) and organizational issues.

The conservative Koslow only partially supported the policy of turning away from China . He was also skeptical of a more liberal attitude ( thaw ) towards writers and artists. Like Leonid Brezhnev and Michael Suslow , he belonged to the conservative wing of the party.

A possible successor to Nikita Khrushchev

After the XXII. At the CPSU party congress in October 1961, he moved up to second place, immediately behind Khrushchev, both as party secretary and in the government. In fact, he was the party's second secretary. Until 1963, Koslow was the "Crown Prince", as it was called, the most promising candidate to succeed 69-year-old Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the CPSU. However, on April 10, 1963, he suffered a stroke from which he did not recover. As a result, he lost his various offices in 1964 and died in 1965. His urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

Now Brezhnev was able to assert himself more strongly in the party and in 1964 he succeeded Khrushchev.

literature

• Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin, Ullstein, Frankfurt, 1967
• Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965
• Spuler: Regents and Governments of the World, Minister-Ploetz Vol. 4, 1964, ISBN 3-87640-026-0
• Frol R. Koslow , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 07/1965 of February 8, 1965, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Literature by and about Frol Romanowitsch Koslow in the catalog of the German National Library