Ivan Lvovich Arens

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Jean Arens (Iwan Arens)

Ivan Lwowitsch Arens ( Russian Ива́н (Жан) Льво́вич Аренс , also known as Jean Arens ; * 1889 in Mława ; † January 11, 1938 in Kommunarka near Moscow) was a Soviet diplomat.

Life

Arens was born into a Jewish family in the Płock Governorate . He was already politically active as a member of the Bund . After the October Revolution , he worked for the NKID (People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs) of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic from 1921 . He was seriously injured in the attack on Worovsky in Lausanne. From 1923 he worked for the Russian Telegraph Agency, from 1927 to 1930 he was in the diplomatic service in France, then in Canada. 1935-1937 he served as Consul General of the USSR in New York. Ilf and Petrow 's trip to Americacame about largely thanks to him, Arens originally planned to take part himself. He left New York on February 6, 1937; he was looking forward to returning home. He was arrested on August 3, 1937 on the pretext of espionage and counterrevolutionary activity, convicted on January 4, 1938 and shot on January 11 at the Kommunarka Poligon, an execution site near Moscow. He was buried in Butovo-Kommunarka and rehabilitated in December 1956 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lisa Irschai (compilation): АМЕРИКА ИЛЬФА И ПЕТРОВА: КАК ВСЕ БЫЛО. old.lechaim.ru, accessed March 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fastcult.ru
  3. ↑ http://nashagazeta.ch/news/12653
  4. ↑ http://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/martirolog/?t=page&id=2483
personal data
SURNAME Arens, Ivan Lvovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arens, Jean; Аренс, Иван Львович (Russian); Аренс, Жан Львович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Mława
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1938
Place of death Kommunarka , Moscow Oblast