Kurt Nixdorf

Kurt Otto Nixdorf (* the 30th November 1903 in Breslau , † 14. September 1937 in Moscow ) was a German economist, KPD - official and employee of the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.

Life

Nixdorf studied at the political science faculty of the University of Breslau and graduated in 1926 with a doctorate (dissertation: The legal nature of engagement). In 1919 he became a member of the USPD. From 1920 to 1922 he was a full-time KPD functionary in the Silesia district , then until 1927 secretary of the trade union department. He worked as a course teacher and as editor of the Schlesische Arbeiter-Zeitung .

At the end of 1927 he traveled to the Soviet Union, where he became a member of the CPSU . From 1928 to 1931 Nixdorf worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow. In 1929 he was attacked as a compromiser. After his dismissal as a result of the party purges , he became a lecturer in new languages ​​at the Pedagogical Institute . Until 1933 he was deputy business editor of the Moscow Rundschau .

Kurt Nixdorf fell victim to the Stalinist purges . On February 3, 1935, he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to five years in a camp on June 20, 1935. However, on September 14, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR. The execution took place on the same day by shooting. Only posthumously rehabilitated by Soviet authorities on November 30, 1989.

literature

• Handbook of the German Communists
• Institute for the history of the labor movement (ed.): In the fangs of the NKVD. Berlin: Dietz Verl., 1991, p. 164, ISBN 978-3320016326
• Lukács, Georg, Johannes R. Becher, Friedrich Wolf a. a .: The purge. Moscow 1936: shorthand for a closed party meeting. Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1991, p. 135, ISBN 978-3499130120