Mykola Porsch

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Mykola Porsch

Mykola Wolodymyrowytsch Porsch ( Ukrainian Микола Володимирович Порш ; born October 19 . Jul / 31 October  1879 greg. In Lubny , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 16th April 1944 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a Ukrainian economist, lawyer, journalist , Diplomat and politician.

Life

Mykola Porsch was born to a German-Jewish family in Lubny in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava .

In the late 1890s he was in a leading position in the Ukrainian national movement in the Lubny region and from 1904 in the political underground in Kiev and Nizhyn . He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party , from which the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP) emerged in 1905 , which he led from 1906 in succession to Dmytro Antonovytsch . In 1911 he graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Vladimir University in Kiev.

After the February Revolution he took an active part in building Ukrainian independence as one of the leaders of the Ukrainian social democracy. Among other things, he became head of the All-Ukrainian Council of Workers' Representatives, a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly , the Ukrainian Central Na Rada and the Small Rada. Between September 12, 1917 and January 31, 1918 he was Secretary General for Labor (Minister of Labor) and on December 18, 1917, after the resignation of Symon Petlyura , he was appointed Secretary General for Military Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR). He held this post until January 17, 1918. On April 19, 1918, Porsch became chairman of the Ukrainian government delegations during the peace talks with Soviet Russia . During the time of the hetmanate he was an active participant in the opposition government of the Organization of the Ukrainian National Union, which is why he was arrested on July 27, 1918, together with Symon Petljura, and released after the end of the hetmanate in November 1918.

In 1919, succeeding Theodor Steinheil , he became Ambassador of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) to the Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin , where he stayed after the collapse of the Ukrainian People's Republic and from then on devoted himself to works on economics and translated Karl Marx 's On the Critique of Political Economy into Ukrainian .

He died at the age of 64 in Berlin (according to another source in Biesenthal near Berlin) and was buried in Berlin.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Porsh, Mykola in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 4, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Mykola Porsch in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Mykola Porsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Mykola Porsch in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Porsch, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porsch, Mykola Wolodymyrowytsch (full name); Порш, Микола Володимирович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian economist, lawyer, journalist, publicist, diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Lubny , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1944
Place of death Berlin , German Empire