Georgi Alexandrovich Astakhov
Georgi Alexandrowitsch Astachow ( Russian Георгий Александрович Астахов ; * 1897 in Kiev ; † February 14, 1942 in Ust-Wym) was a Soviet diplomat.
Life
Astakhov came from a noble family and studied at Moscow University. In 1918 he joined the RKP (B) and was from 1918 to 1920 a correspondent for ROSTA in Berlin and editor of the newspaper Kommunist . He then joined the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID). He became head of the press department of the NKID in Caucasus and Turkey, and from 1924 to 1925 he was a consultant at the embassy in Germany. From 1925 to 1928 he was 1st Secretary of the Embassy in Japan. In September 1928 he signed the first treaty between the Soviet Union and a country in the Arab world in Yemen. From 1928 to 1929 he was head of the Far East department in the NKID and at the same time deputy foreign editor of Izvestia .
From 1930 to 1933 Astachow was counselor in Turkey, from 1934 to 1935 in Great Britain. He was then the authorized representative of the NKID in the Transcaucasian SFSR and head of the press department of the NKID. In 1937 he became counselor in Germany and, after Ambassador Alexei Merekalov was recalled, chargé d'affaires of the Soviet embassy in Berlin.
Astachow played an important role in the initiation of the Hitler-Stalin Pact when he was invited to Munich in July 1939 for the Day of German Art and met Hitler . At the end of July, the course for the German-Soviet treaty was set at a dinner with Foreign Minister Ribbentrop . On August 19, 1939, he was suddenly recalled and released from the NKID. He found a job at the Museum of the Peoples of the East, but was arrested on February 27, 1940 and detained in Moscow's notorious Sukhanovo Prison and interrogated several times. In July 1941 he was sentenced to 15 years in a camp for espionage and died in February 1942 in the Ust-Wym camp in the Komi ASSR . In 1957 he was rehabilitated.
literature
- Bernhard Bayerlein: The traitor, Stalin, you are !: From the end of left solidarity. Comintern and Communist Parties in World War II, 1939-1941 . In: Archives of Communism - Paths of the XX. Century . 1st edition. tape 4 . Aufbau Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-02623-3 , p. 103-104 (540 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Graml : Europe's Way to War: Hitler and the Powers 1939 . In: Sources and representations on contemporary history . tape 29 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-486-55151-5 , p. 269 u. a . (315 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Astachow, Georgi Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Астахов, Георгий Александрович (Russian); Astahov, Georgi; Astakhov, Georgy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1942 |
| Place of death | Ust-Wym |