Jakub Ganezki
Jakub Ganezki ( Russian Якуб Ганецкий , actually Jakow Stanislawowitsch Fürstenberg ( Яков Станиславович Фюрстенберг ), also Hanecki ; born March 15, 1879 in Warsaw ; † November 26, 1937 ) was a Polish and Soviet revolution.
Life
Ganezki came from a Polish industrial family with Jewish roots. In 1896 he joined the Social Democrats of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). In 1901 he went to Germany and studied in Berlin , Heidelberg and Zurich . As a companion of the Polish revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky , Ganezki was one of the co-founders of the Social Democratic Party of Poland. Ganezki played a leading role in the 1905 revolution in Poland. In 1907 he became a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party .
In the 1910s he was an important companion of the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin , who among other things used him as a mediator with Poles and Germans. In 1914, Ganezki obtained Lenin's release from a Polish prison and thus enabled him to flee to Switzerland. During the First World War he was a partner and representative of Alexander Helphand alias Parvus in his trading activities in Denmark and Sweden and played a key role in his operations, supported by German money payments, to spark a revolution in Russia to overthrow the Tsar. With the German representatives in Denmark he negotiated the conditions for Lenin's journey through Germany and Sweden back to Russia and also took part in the famous train journey himself.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin brought Ganetsky to Russia and appointed him head of the central bank and deputy finance minister. Ganezki also represented the Russian side in the Peace of Riga . From 1923 to 1930 Ganezki held a leading position in the Ministry of Commerce of the Soviet Union, from 1930 to 1935 he was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet for the National Economy of the RSFSR . Subsequently, he became the director of the Revolutionary Museum of the USSR .
In 1937 Ganezki was suspected of espionage for Poland and Germany during the Stalinist purges , then arrested and sentenced to death. On November 26th of the same year he was executed by shooting. His wife and son suffered the same fate, his daughter survived 18 years in a camp and after her rehabilitation returned to Moscow in 1956, where she died in 1976.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Koenen : Game for world power. Germany and the Russian Revolution. In: From Politics and Contemporary History 67, Issue 34–36 (2017), p. 16 f. ( online ), accessed October 21, 2017.
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| SURNAME | Ganezki, Jakub |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fürstenberg, Jakow Stanislawowitsch; Ганецкий, Якуб (Russian); Фюрстенберг, Яков Станиславович (Russian); Hanecki, Jakub (Polish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Soviet revolutionary and companion of Lenin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1937 |