Matwei Fyodorowitsch Shkirjatov

Matwei Fjodorowitsch Schkirjatow ( Russian Матвей Фёдорович Шкирятов ; * 3 August ^July / 15 August  1883 ^{greg. In} the Tula Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 18, 1954 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician and an official of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAPR) , Communist Party of Russia (KPR (B)) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), which, among other things, was a member of the CPSU Politburo briefly on the party's top management body from October 1952 to March 1953 .

Life

Start of the political career in SDLPR as well as KPR (B) and October Revolution

Shkiryatov became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1906 and was arrested several times for his political activities. During the First World War he did military service in the Imperial Russian Army between 1915 and 1917 and after the October Revolution and the proclamation of the Provisional Soviet Republic in 1917, he was initially a member of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Moscow and a member of the military organizations of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP November 1917 became a member of both the Revolutionary Military Committee and the Executive Committee of the Tula Soviet.

In 1918 Shkirjatov became secretary of the textile workers 'union and was then until 1920 chairman of the central association of the textile workers' union of Moscow. In the following period he became involved in the Bolsheviks of the Communist Party of Russia (KPR (B)) and was first chairman of the Central Commission for the Inspection and Cleaning of the Party Ranks of the KPR (B) in 1921 and then from April 2, 1922 to April 26, 1921. January 1934 member of the Central Control Commission of the KPR (B). In addition, from April 26, 1923 to January 26, 1934, he also served as a member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the KPR (B) and, at the same time, between April 26, 1923 and February 12, 1927, he was a member of the secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the KPR ( B).

Party official of the CPSU

Furthermore, from April 1923 to May 1924, Shkirjatov was a member of the board of the Central Party Control Commission of the KPR (B) and at the same time secretary of the party college of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU. In December 1927 he became a member of the board of the Central Party Control Commission of the CPSU and held this office until January 26, 1930. In addition, he served from 1927 to November 2, 1934 as a member of the College of the People's Commissariat for the Inspectorate of Workers and Peasants in the USSR and was again from July 1930 to January 26, 1934 secretary of the party college of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU.

Then he was on the one hand from October 2, 1934 to October 3, 1939 a member of the party control commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU and at the same time secretary of the party college of the party control commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU. During this time he was a member of the International Control Commission of the Communist International from August 1935 to May 15, 1943 .

On March 21, 1939, Shkirjatov was elected for the first time as a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU and, after being re-elected at the following party congresses, belonged to it until his death on January 18, 1954. At the same time he became deputy chairman of the Central Party Control Commission of the CPSU and held this position until October 5, 1952.

On October 16, 1952, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee and thus the highest management body. In addition, he was chairman of the Central Revision Commission of the CPSU from October 16, 1952 until his death. After the death of Josef Stalin , he lost his membership in the Politburo of the Central Committee on March 5, 1953.

Shkirjatov was awarded the Order of Lenin three times , including on the occasion of his seventieth birthday in recognition of his services to the Communist Party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet state.

Web links

• CV (Knowbysight.info)
• The Spectator , February 12, 1954