Karl Petin
Karl Quido Petin (born March 26, 1887 in Vienna ; † April 14, 1940 in Buchenwald concentration camp ) was an Austrian socialist politician of Latvian origin.
Life
Petin fought in the First World War as an Austro-Hungarian military police in the Joint Army of Austria-Hungary and was captured in Russia in 1916 . In 1918 he headed the Commissariat for Volga-German Affairs in Saratov in the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Volga Germans, together with the German socialist Ernst Reuter , who later became Berlin's mayor . Petin had proven himself in the revolutionary prisoner-of-war work in the Moscow military district and had been a member of the Communist Party of Russia KPR (B) since 1918 . He worked in the KPR (B) as a delegate with a deciding vote in the Russian-German section . He also received a mandate from the Communist Party of German Austria (KPDÖ) for the founding congress of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow in 1919 .
literature
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Alexander J. Watlin (ed.): The world party from Moscow. The founding congress of the Communist International in 1919. Protocol and new documents . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004495-0 , pp. 362 . ( limited preview on Google Book Search )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Petin's tombstone . vets.estranky.cz. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ↑ List of losses of the Austro-Hungarian Army No. 440 from July 13, 1916 . Retrieved October 8, 2016.
- ↑ Lydia Klötzel: The Russian Germans between autonomy and emigration , p. 93 ( Online. At Google Book Search )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petin, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petin, Karl Quido (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian socialist politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 1940 |
| Place of death | Buchenwald concentration camp |