Lev Lvovich Sedov

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Lev Lwowitsch Sedov ( Russian Лев Львович Седов , scientific transliteration Lev L'vovič Sedov ; German also Leo Sedow ; English and French also Leon Sedov ; *  February 24, 1906 ; †  February 16,  1938 in Paris ) was the eldest son by Leon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova and a political companion of his father. Like his father later, he was murdered by an employee of the NKVD .

Life

The grave of Lev "Léon" Sedov in the Paris cemetery of Thiais

Sedov was politically very close to his father and tried to convince himself and him with other like-minded people against the accusations and lies of Stalin , e. B. in the Moscow trials to defend.

He became politically active after Lenin's death in 1924, when the hunt against Trotsky began and the Left Opposition was founded. He followed his father - leaving his own family - into exile in Alma-Ata and from there a year later to the Turkish island of Prinkipo near Istanbul.

From February 1931 he lived in Berlin, where he studied at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg (today Technical University Berlin ) and published the bulletin of the Russian opposition . In the spring of 1933 Sedov fled from the National Socialists to Paris. He lived there - constantly shadowed by the NKVD - until his death on February 16, 1938. He was murdered in a hospital in Paris after an appendectomy.

Publications

  • Red Book on the Moscow Trial. Documents. Editions de Lee, Antwerp 1936; Reprint: isp-Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-88332-142-7
  • Various articles in the opposition bulletin
  • An article in the book The Stalin School of Falsification by Leon Trotsky

Web links

Commons : Leon Sedov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wladislaw Hedeler: Chronicle of the Moscow Show Trials in 1936, 1937 and 1938. Planning, staging and effect. With an essay by Steffen Dietzsch. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003869-1 . P. 663.
personal data
SURNAME Sedov, Lev Lvovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Седов, Лев Львович; Sedov, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION eldest son of Leon Trotsky, political companion of his father
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1906
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1938
Place of death Paris