Karl July Danischewski

Karl July Danischewski ( Latvian : Karlis Jūlijs Daniševskis ; Russian Карл Юлий Христианович Данишевский ; May 3, ^Jul. / 15. May  1884 ^{. Greg} , † 8. January 1938 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet Latvian official of the RSDLP and officials of the USSR .

Life

In Semgallen born Danischewski, son of an aristocratic Polish family, was active early in the revolutionary movement in Russia. Since 1900 he was a member of the RSDLP. He was elected to the Central Committee of the RSDLP in 1907 at the Fifth Party Congress.

From 1907 to 1914 he worked as a functionary in several cities, such as St. Petersburg , Riga , Moscow, Warsaw , Baku and Tbilisi . He was arrested several times and eventually banished . In 1917 he escaped from exile to Moscow, where he was staying illegally.

In Moscow, after the February Revolution in 1917, he was a member of the RSDLP committee and the Moscow Soviet . In May 1917 he started working as an editor in Latvia for the social democratic newspaper Zinja (Cina) and the newspaper Okopnaja Pravda , which was supported by the RSDLP .

At the 5th Congress of the Latvian RSDLP he was elected to the party's central committee. In Latvia he worked illegally in Riga until June 1918 as part of the Iskolat (Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers ', Soldiers' and Landless Deputies of Latvia). In July 1918 he took part as a delegate at the 5th All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

From January to May 1919 he was a deputy chairman of the government of the Latvian SSR and held duties in the Revolutionary Military Council of Latvia and from July 1919 on the Eastern Front. He also participated in the suppression of the revolt of the Social Revolutionaries in Moscow, where he was a member of the Revolutionary War Council of the RSFSR from September 1919 .

At the 8th party congress of the KPR (B) he became a candidate for the party's central committee. From 1921 he was a secretary in the Siberian office of the RKP (B). He took on tasks in the state management of the group for the northern wood industry, the associated commercial bank and wood export. From 1932 to 1937 he was a member of the People's Commissariat for the wood industry .

Arrest and death

In the course of the Stalinist persecution he was arrested and imprisoned on July 16, 1937. Convicted: the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR on January 8, 1938, the charge: "Participation in the counter-revolutionary terrorist organization". Shot dead on January 8, 1938, the funeral location-the firing point of Kommunarka , Moscow region. Rehabilitated in July 1956 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

credentials

• Heinrich E. Schulze et al. (Ed.): Who was who in the USSR. A biographic directory containing 5015 biographies of prominent Soviet historical personalities . Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ 1972, ISBN 0-8108-0441-7 .
• GN Golikow, MI Kuznetsov: Enciklopedija Velikaja Oktjabrskaja socialisticeskaja revoljucija . Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, Moscow 1977.
• Миллер В. и Стумбина Э., Ю. Данишевский, в кн .: Латышские революционные деятели, Рига, 1958; J. К. Daniševskis. Biobibliogräfija, Riga, 1964.

Web links

• Biography with references (Russian)
• Tabular curriculum vitae (Russian)
• http://lists.memo.ru/index5.htm = Execution list with Danischewskij`s name as (Russian) Данишевский Карл Христианович