Stanislaw Adamowitsch Messing
Stanislaw Adamowitsch Messing ( Polish Stanisław Adamowicz Messing , Russian Станислав Адамович Мессинг ; * 1890 in Warsaw ; † September 2, 1937 in Moscow (executed)) was a Polish revolutionary and one of the leaders of the Soviet political police ( Cheka) , later OGPU . As deputy chairman, he led the OGPU from 1929 to 1932.
Life
He was born in Warsaw into a family of musicians and attended high school. In 1908 he joined the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ) and was in close contact with Felix Dzerzhinsky and Josef Unschlicht . Brass served as a soldier in the First World War .
From 1918 he held a leading position at the Moscow Cheka. In 1921 he became its chairman, but in the same year he changed to the post of chairman of the Petrograd Cheka. From 1929–1932 he was deputy chairman of the OGPU , the successor organization to the Cheka.
In the course of the Stalin Purges , Messing was arrested on June 15, 1937 and shot on December 2, 1937.
In 1956 he was rehabilitated.
literature
- George Leggett: The Cheka: Lenin's political police - the all-Russian extraordinary commission for combating counter-revolution and sabotage, December 1917 to February 1922 , Clarendon Press, 1981, ISBN 0198225520 , ISBN 9780198225522 , p. 454.
Web links
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: detailed article about Stanislaw Messing with photo (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Acton, Tom Stableford: The Soviet Union: a documentary history , University of Exeter Press, 2005, p. 432.
- ^ SG Wheatcroft: Challenging traditional views of Russian history , Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, p. 142. (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brass, Stanislaw Adamowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brass, Stanisław Adamowicz (Polish); Мессинг, Станислав Адамович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish communist and deputy chairman of the Soviet OGPU (1929–1932) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Congress Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |