Maksymilian Horwitz
Maksymilian Horwitz (party name: Henryk Walecki , born September 6, 1877 in Warsaw , † September 20, 1937 in Moscow ) was a leader and theoretician of the communist movement in Poland.
Life
Maksymilian Horwitz was born in Warsaw, the son of Gustaw Horwitz and Julia Kleinmann, into a Jewish family. Between 1893 and 1898 he studied mathematics at the University of Ghent .
In 1906 he became a member of the Socialist Party of Poland - Left, in 1918 of the Communist Party of Poland , in whose Central Committee and Politburo he sat. From 1921 he was an official of the Comintern and worked in Spain , Belgium and Greece . Stalin had him removed from the leadership of the party. During the Great Terror was he in June 1937 by the NKVD arrested on September 20, 1937 executed .
literature
- Michael Buckmiller , Klaus Meschkat (ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the Communist International. A German-Russian research project. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-05-004158-2 . Accompanying CD-ROM, entry "Horwitz (" Walecki "), Maksymilian Henryk".
Web links
- Maksymilian Horwitz in the YIVO encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Валецкий Максимилиан Густавович. In: lists.memo.ru. Retrieved November 29, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horwitz, Maksymilian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henryk Walecki (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish communist, victim of Stalinism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |