Wazlaw Wazlawowitsch Worowski

Wazlaw Worowski

Vatslav vorovsky ( Russian Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский * October 15 ^{. Jul} / 27 October 1871 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 10. May 1923 in Lausanne ) was a Soviet ambassador .

Life

He came from a family with a Polish migrant background and received his education in circles of the Lutheran Church . He wrote anti-tsarist poems as early as his youth. From 1890 to 1891 he studied in Moscow Physics and Mathematics and spoke at student meetings against the regime of Tsar from.

In 1897 he was arrested and exiled to the Vyatka Governorate , from where he fled to Geneva. From then on he was active on the side of the Bolsheviks and published articles in the Iskra newspaper . In 1903 he traveled to Odessa and met conspiratorially with the local Bolsheviks and the Polish left. In 1905 he traveled to Saint Petersburg and published articles in Bolshevik newspapers. In the background he bought weapons for the Bolsheviks in order to strengthen the reactionary circles. In 1906 he took part in the fourth congress of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in Stockholm and then lived in Moscow. From 1915 to 1916 he was employed by Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Saint Petersburg and wrote literary reviews on the side, which he published under the pseudonyms Faun and Ignorant .

1917 led Worowski together with Yakov Ganetsky and Karl Radek , the diplomatic mission of the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia in Stockholm , where he met Heinrich Bockelmann handling the financing of the October Revolution organized. After the revolution, as head of the central bank and deputy finance minister of the incumbent Ganezki, he still had sufficient foreign currency even after the nationalization of multinational companies, at a time when the governments of the Entente imposed an embargo on Russia, which was ruled by the Soviets.

When the Soviets were recognized as a government, he was briefly their ambassador to Scandinavia in 1919 . After Worowski had departed from Stockholm, the Swedish authorities confiscated 10 million Swedish crowns on accounts by Soviet companies for which he was authorized to sign and almost 1.8 million crowns on personal accounts of Worowski at Swedish banks. In addition, he acted under various names as a front man for the foreign trade of the outlawed Soviets. From 1919 he was in Soviet Russia , where he stood out as one of the initiators in the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church . During this time he managed the Soviet publishing house Gosisdat .

In 1922 he took part in the negotiations for the Treaty of Rapallo in Genoa and in 1923 he was a member of the Soviet delegation of observers in the negotiations for the Treaty of Lausanne . On May 10, 1923, an anti-communist member of a Swiss family abroad who had been damaged in Russia, named Moritz Conradi (* 1896 in Saint Petersburg ; † 1947 in Chur ) shot at the Soviet delegation at a dinner in the Lausanne restaurant Cecile . In this assassination the Soviet Russians Jan Arens and the secretary Maxim Diwilkowski were injured and Worowski was killed. Moritz Conradi and Arkadi Polunin were then arrested by the Swiss authorities and defended by right-wing lawyer Théodore Aubert during the trial called the Conradi affair and acquitted on November 16, 1923. This acquittal put a considerable strain on Switzerland's relations with the Soviet Union and repeatedly led to diplomatic disagreements.

Transfer of Vorovsky's body to Moscow. Berlin workers carry the coffin to the hearse.

literature

• Annetta Gattiker: L'affaire Conradi. Herbert Lang, Bern 1975.
• Georges Capol: The Conradi Affair, 1923. Bündner Jahrbuch, Chur 2002, pp. 159–171.
• Alfred Erich Senn: Assassination in Switzerland: The murder of Vatslav Vorovsky. Madison, 1981, ISBN 0-299-08550-3 .
• Hansjakob Stehle: The Ostpolitik of the Vatican , ISBN 3-492-02113-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Госиздат: from 1919 to 1930 publisher of the Soviet government
2. ↑ Simon Hehli: Conradi Affair. Seven bullets against Bolshevism. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 9, 2016.
3. ↑ Editor Alexander Elster, Rudolf Sieverts , Concise Dictionary of Criminology , Volume 4
4. ↑ Chantal Kaiser, Federal Councilor Jean-Marie Musy , 1919–1934

Web links

Commons : Vatslav Vorovsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wazlaw Worowski in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
1911: Alexander Savinsky	Ambassador-at-large of the Soviets in Scandinavia, 1919	Plato Mikhailovich Kerzhenetsev
Mikhail Nikolayevich de Giers	Soviet ambassador to Rome March 14, 1921 - May 10, 1923	Nikolai Ivanovich Iordansky