Tobias Akselrod

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Tobias Akselrod (1887–1938)

Tobias Akselrod (born October 15, 1887 in Moscow , † March 10, 1938 in Kommunarka ) was a Russian revolutionary and in 1919 a member of the Munich council government .

Life

Akselrod joined the Jewish workers' union in 1905 . In 1910 he fled abroad from Siberian exile . He became an employee of the Berner Tagwacht and a member of the Zimmerwald Left . In April 1917 he returned to Russia by train from Zurich. After the October Revolution in 1917 he was head of the press office of the Council of People's Commissars , and in April 1918 head of the press office of the Central Executive Office of the Bolsheviks .

From July 1918 he was head of the Soviet press service in Germany, during the November Revolution in Germany he stayed in Copenhagen. He returned to Germany on December 8, 1918. On January 14, 1919, he was arrested in Stuttgart, taken to Munich and formally placed under house arrest by Kurt Eisner in the Ebenhausen sanatorium . In April 1919 he became a member of the Action Committee of the Works and Soldiers' Council in Munich and an advisory member of the Economic Commission. After the suppression of the Soviet Republic, he was arrested on May 14, 1919 in Tyrol and taken to Munich, where he was charged and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

At the end of 1919 he was transferred from Munich to Berlin-Moabit, placed under house arrest in 1920, and on June 6, 1920 he was able to travel to Petrograd via Stettin . He became editor of the Bulletin of the Communist International for the Russian press, the party organizations of the KPR (B) and cultural propaganda in the Russian Soviet Republic . From 1921 to 1922 he was head of the publishing department of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (EKKI).

After April 1922 he remained active in Switzerland, Austria and France. He wrote for L'Humanité (newspaper of the French Communist Party) and returned to Soviet Russia at the end of 1925, where he worked as a journalist.

During the Stalinist purges , he was arrested on 23 December 1937 for alleged membership in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on March 10, 1938 sentenced to death on the same day shot .

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SURNAME Akselrod, Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Axelrod, Towia Lasarewitsch; Аксельрод, Товий Лазаревич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary and member of the Munich council government
DATE OF BIRTH October 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1938
Place of death Kommunarka