Gustav Klinger (politician)
Gustav Klinger ( Russian Густав Гаспарович Клингер ; * 1876 ; † around 1937 ) was a German socialist and Soviet politician ( CPSU ). As a representative of the German Volga colonists, he was in the Communist International (Comintern).
Life
Gustav Klinger worked in 1918 in Saratow , in the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Volga Germans in the Commissariat for Volga German Affairs under the direction of the German socialists Ernst Reuter and Karl Petin .
Klinger later became managing director of the Comintern after he represented the Volga German Bolsheviks at the first three congresses of the Third International in Moscow .
In the early 1930s he was the diplomatic representative of the USSR in Estonia .
In the course of the Stalin purges , Klinger was arrested and shot around 1937.
literature
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Alexander J. Watlin (ed.): The world party from Moscow. The founding congress of the Communist International in 1919. Protocol and new documents . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004495-0 , pp. 349 . ( limited preview on Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lydia Klötzel: The Russian Germans between autonomy and emigration , page 93.
- ↑ Viktor Krieger: Russian-German history in the controversy 1986–1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klinger, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Клингер, Густав Гаспарович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German socialist and Soviet politician (CPSU) and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1876 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1937 |