Pēteris Struppe

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Pēteris Struppe as "responsible secretary" of the district committee (Областной комитет) in the Pskov Oblast , 1923–1926

Pēteris Struppe ( Russian Пётр Иванович Струппе / Pyotr Ivanovich Struppe * July 12 jul. / 24. July  1889 greg. On the estate Uskur, Circle Doblen, Courland Governorate , today Latvia ; † the 30th October 1937 in Moscow ) was a Latvian - Russian revolutionary who later held high party offices in the Soviet Union and a victim of Stalinism .

Life

Pēteris Struppe, the son of a wealthy farmer, joined the RSDLP (B) in 1907 . The revolutionary was imprisoned in Riga from 1908 to 1911 , imprisoned in Samara in 1916 , exiled to the Irkutsk governorate for four years , but was released after the February revolution in 1917 .

From 1917 to 1926 Struppe was at the head of various party and state organs: 1917–1920 in Samara and in the Urals , 1920–1923 in Kyrgyzstan and 1923–1926 not far from his Baltic homeland in Pskov, Russia . Struppe had been working in Leningrad since 1926 , and from 1932 he was head of the Leningrad Regional Executive Committee. In February 1936 he was transferred from Leningrad to Sverdlovsk ; there he headed the agricultural authority in Sverdlovsk Oblast .

From 1930 to 1932 Struppe was a member of the Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU and was a member from 1932 to 1934 and a candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1934 to 1937 .

Pēteris Struppe was arrested in the course of the Great Terror on June 27, 1937, convicted and shot on October 30, 1937. His wife was arrested in the summer of 1937. The two daughters were sent to reform homes in Balaschowo and Wolsk .

Fonts

  • О мерах по улучшению финансовой работы сельских советов , Leningrad 1935 (translation of the Russian title: Measures to improve the financing of the work of the rural Soviets ).

literature

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annotation

  1. ↑ The novel Years of Terror by Anatoly Rybakov is a narrative analysis of the Stalin Purges . The author adds a documentary ending to the 16th chapter of the novel. Rybakov writes: "All of Kirov's comrades in arms ... were liquidated ...: Tschudow , Kodazki , Alexejew , Smorodin , Posern , Ugarow and Struppe ..." (Rybakow, p. 208, 10. Zvo)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ engl. Doblen district
  2. ↑ Струппе Пётр Иванович at pskovmir.edapskov.ru (Russian)
  3. ↑ Russian Balaschowo
  4. ↑ From the correspondence of the daughter Asja Struppe (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Struppe, Pēteris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Струппе, Пётр Иванович (Russian); Struppe, Pyotr Ivanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian communist and Soviet statesman
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Uskur Estate, Doblen District, Courland Governorate
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1937
Place of death Moscow