Nikolai Pavlovich Komarov

Nikolai Komarov

Nikolai Pawlowitsch Komarow ( Russian: Николай Павлович Комаров ; born November 27, 1886 in Tver Governorate , Russian Empire ; † November 27, 1937 Moscow ) was a Soviet state and party official.

biography

Komarow was the son of a simple farmer who graduated from the local parish school. He has been working in St. Petersburg since 1902, attended the city school and studied at the technical evening school for two years. He was actively involved in the 1905 Russian Revolution and in 1909 became a member of the Social Revolutionary Party and then the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia (RSDLP). In 1914 he worked in illigality, was arrested in 1916 and sentenced to 10 years of forced labor. After the February Revolution of 1917 he was chairman of the factory committee at his plant in Petrograd and a member of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP (B).

Revolution and civil war

He took part in the October Revolution in Petrograd . From November 1917 he was chairman chairman of the Petrograd Revolutionary Military Tribunal. From June 1918 he was battalion commissar on the Eastern Front in the Russian Civil War . In 1919/21 he worked in the Cheka . From 1921 he took on some important functions in the party and in the state apparatus. At the 10th Party Congress in 1921 he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU . He enjoyed Zinoviev's trust , which in 1937 was his undoing. From 1930 he worked in Moscow at the Supreme Economic Council and from 1931 was People's Commissar for Public Utilities of the RSFSR.

Victim of stalinism

In 1937 he fell victim to the Stalinist purges . He was arrested on June 11, 1937 and - like Kamenev and Zinoviev before - convicted by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the USSR on November 27, 1937 under Article 58-7-8-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and executed on the same day. Komarov was buried in Moscow in the Donskoy cemetery . In 1956 he was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the USSR.

Web links

• Komarov, Nikolai Pavlovich
• The victims of political terror in the USSR - Комаров Николай Павлович (Russian)
• Steffen Dietzsch: Bukharin, Nikolai Iwanowitsch, Karl Radek et al. In: Kurt Groenewold , Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (Eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Trials , online, as of September 2015.