Grigori Moissejewitsch Mairanowski

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Grigori Moissejewitsch Mairanowski ( Russian Григорий Моисеевич Майрановский ; * 1899 in Batumi ; † 1971 ) was a Soviet chemist, toxicologist and expert on executions and the inventor of a so-called poison chair .

Features and careers

Mairanovsky headed the Moscow Labor Institute of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs NKVD under the direction of Lavrenti Beria . The laboratory no. 12 was the Lubyanka connected and was in the Warsonofjewskijgasse 11. Up to Josef Stalin's death (1953) were produced toxins under the leadership Mairanowskis and human experiments tried. For this purpose, prisoners were brought into the cells of the laboratory every day. Substances were used that could not be detected in autopsies after political murders. Secret operations by Soviet agents abroad should be supported in this way. The development of objects with a concealed poison needle or point was established here. Mairanowski personally led the development of a walking stick with a poisoned tip. Here, too, experiments were carried out on prisoners of the NKVD. The historian Michail Woslenski mentions Mairanowski's communication to Beria that he had "destroyed several dozen archenemies of the Soviet Union ".

Valery Alexandrovich Wolin, the Chief Military Prosecutor of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation , stated in a 1993 lecture:

“Only recently, while working in the rehabilitation administration, I learned that a secret laboratory had been set up in Moscow at the central KGB apparatus to conduct experiments on prisoners sentenced to death. In this death laboratory under the direction of the doctor of medical science, Professor Grigori Mairanowski, thousands of people of different nationalities were killed by KGB members. "

Mairanowski is also said to have carried out experiments on German prisoners of war during World War II , according to an article by the Russia correspondent of the Frankfurter Rundschau from 2006, which refers to a book published in 2005 by ex-KGB expert Alexander Kuzminov.

Mairanowski had to go to prison in the 1950s at the time of the so-called doctors' conspiracy , a fabricated suspicion, on charges of being a "Jewish nationalist". After his release he worked as head of a biochemical laboratory until his death.

literature

Web links

all from 2006 on the occasion of the poisoning of Alexander Walterowitsch Litvinenko :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michail Sergejewitsch Voslensky The secret is revealed. Moscow archives tell , pp. 56-58, Langen Müller 1995, ISBN 3784425364
  2. ↑ 4th Bautzen Forum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung from 17. – 18. June 1993: June 17, 1953. The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire (PDF file; 712 kB), documentation, p. 76.]
  3. ↑ Florian Hassel: " Secret laboratory develops poisons for traceless murders ", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of November 24, 2006. "Russia's secret service has had a secret laboratory since 1922 that develops poisons for traceless, at least puzzling, murders. 2005 published ex-secret service agent Alexander Kuzminov a book according to which the laboratory still exists. "
personal data
SURNAME Mairanowski, Grigori Moissejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Майрановский, Григорий Моисеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet chemist and toxicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Batumi
DATE OF DEATH 1971