Mieczysław Broński
Mieczysław Bronski (often Warszawski-Bronski ; Russian Мечислав Генрихович Бронский (Варшавский) ; * 1882 in Łódź , Congress Poland , Russian Empire ; † 1. September 1938 in Kommunarka , Moscow ) was a Polish social democrat and author and Soviet diplomat. For the Soviet Union he worked as an ambassador in Vienna (1920–1922).
Life
His father Henryk Broński owned a cotton mill in Łódź. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Poland, in 1916 he was the representative of the Social Democrats of Poland ( SDKPiL ) at the international conference of socialist parties from April 24th to 30th, 1916 in Kiental , Switzerland. Broński, who, along with Pyatakov and Menshinsky, was one of the Bolshevik economists whom the Swedish banker Olof Aschberg met in Petrograd in January 1918 , had to be mistaken for a newcomer to economic affairs when he told the banker about the decision to disallow all Russian foreign debts and responded to his warning of the loss of any international creditworthiness with carefree laughter. In the RSFSR he was People's Commissar for Trade and Industry until November 1918 , charged with enforcing and promoting the new foreign trade monopoly , for which he wrote a two-part article for Izvestia . This also included warning circulars demanding compliance with the regulations. From 1920 to 1922 he was the Soviet ambassador in Vienna. Here in Vienna he married the German communist Susanne Leonhard , née Köhler , in 1920 . He had a daughter Wanda Brońska-Pampuch (1911–1972) and from his marriage to Susanne Leonhard the son Wolfgang (Wladimir) Leonhard (1921–2014).
In 1928 he was a member of the College of the People's Commissar for Finance. Until his arrest, he was professor of political economy at the Communist Academy of Sciences in Moscow .
On September 9, 1937, he was arrested in the course of the Stalinist purges and shot on September 1, 1938 in Kommunarka. On July 21, 1956, he was officially rehabilitated.
literature
- Willi Gautschi : Lenin as an emigrant in Switzerland. Benziger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-545-34066-X , p. 383.
Web links
- Literature by and about Mieczysław Broński in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mieczysław Broński-Warszawski at Akademic.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Hahlweg : Lenin's return to Russia 1917: the German files , Brill Archive, 1957, p. 135. ( Online at Google Books )
- ^ Babette Gross : Willi Munzenberg. A political biography , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1967, p. 143
- ^ John Quigley: The Soviet Foreign Trade Monopoly. Institutions and Laws. Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1974, pp. 7 u. 17th
- ↑ Rowohlt: Bookmarks 09/2010 "Wolfgang Leonhard: Notes on Stalin"
- ^ Willi Gautschi: Lenin as an emigrant in Switzerland. P. 383.
- ↑ Бронский Мечислав Генрихович (Russian, accessed March 7, 2010)
- ↑ Biographical data on Broński ( Memento from August 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Broński, Mieczysław |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Warszawski (battle name); Mieczysław-Warszawski; Бронский, Мечислав Генрихович (Russian spelling); Brown, MI (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician (SDKPiL) and author as well as Soviet diplomat, ambassador in Vienna (1920–1922) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1938 |
| Place of death | Kommunarka , Moscow , Soviet Union |