Karl Andrejewitsch Gailis

Karl Andreyevich Gailis ( Russian Карл Андреевич Гайлис or Latvian Kārlis Gailis * April 19 ^{. Jul} / 1. May  1888 ^greg. In Gulbene , † 4. January 1960 in Moscow ) was a Latvian-Soviet revolutionaries , politicians and judicial functionary.

Life

Gailis joined the social democracy of Latvia (Latvijas sociāldemokrātija, LSD or Социал-демократия Латышского края, СДЛК / SDLK) in 1906. His party work quickly took him to Saint Petersburg , where he worked for the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP . He worked for the publishing house Прибой ( Priboi ; German surf) and the newspaper Правда ( Prawda ; German truth). He was a representative of the SDLK to the Bolshevik faction in the 4th State Duma . In 1916 he became a member of the Central Committee of the SDLK.

After the February Revolution of 1917 he was first a member of the Wolmar , then the Petrograd Soviet . He was a delegate of the First Congress of Soviets in June 1917, where he was elected to the Central Electoral Commission, and a delegate of the VI. RSDLP (B) party congress in August 1917. He was one of the organizers and member of the Revolutionary Committee of the 12th Army. He took an active part in the October Revolution in Petrograd and was a delegate to the Second Congress of Soviets (November 1917). He was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and the staff of the Petrograd Military District. In March 1919 he was the only Latvian representative to take part in the founding congress of the Comintern .

Gailis was one of the leading politicians of the first Latvian SSR (1918–1920). He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Latvian Soviet and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia. In 1919 he became People's Commissar for Labor of the Latvian SSR.

After the fall of Soviet power in Latvia, Gailis fled to Moscow, where he then worked for the People's Commissariat for Justice. He became a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR and a member of the Supreme Court of the USSR. From 1933 to 1939 he was a member of the Transport College of the Supreme Court of the USSR. From 1939 to 1952 he was a senior advisor to the RSFSR Supreme Court, after which he retired.

Gailis was awarded the Order of Lenin .

literature

• Entry: Гайлис, Карл Андреевич . In: Большая советская энциклопедия (third edition, Moscow 1969–1978; Russian).
• Entry: Gailis, Karl . In: Branko M. Lazić (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern . Hoover Press, Stanford 1986, p. 133.
• Entry: Гайлис, Карл Андреевич . In: Константин Александрович Залесский: Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь . Вече, Moscow 2000, p. 104.