Vladimir Petrovich Potemkin
Vladimir Petrovich Potjomkin ( Russian Владимир Петрович Потёмкин , born October 7, 1874 in Tver , † February 23, 1946 in Moscow ) was a Soviet educator and diplomat .
The son of a doctor studied at the historical-philosophical faculty of Moscow University until 1898 . From 1900 he taught as a high school teacher in schools in Moscow and Yekaterinoslav . In 1903 he joined the revolutionary movement. After the October Revolution he was a member of the School Policy Committee of the People's Commissariat for Popular Education of Soviet Russia . In 1919 he joined the (KPR (B) and was head of the political department of the Southern Front, and of the South-Western Front of the Russian Civil War in 1920. As a member of the Revolutionary War Council of the 6th Army, he led special task forces.
In 1922 Potjomkin entered the diplomatic service. He was ambassador to Greece from 1929 to 1932, to Italy from 1932 to 1934 and to France from 1934 to 1937 . 1937–1940 he was First Deputy Foreign Commissioner under Litvinov . As such, he handed the Polish ambassador in Moscow the note justifying the appearance of the Red Army on Polish territory with the remark that “the Polish state and its government have ceased to exist”. In 1939 he became a member of the Central Committee . 1940 to 1943 he was People's Commissar for Education of the RSFSR . During the Great Patriotic War in World War II, he lectured part-time at the political headquarters of the Red Army .
Potjomkin was the founder and first president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in 1943 . He published a number of historical studies on France, the English labor movement and international relations, and published a three-volume history of diplomacy from 1941–1945 , at which u. a. Yevgeny Tarle and Isaak Minz had collaborated. It has been translated many times and served as a study basis for the first diplomats of the new Eastern Bloc states . Potjomkin's urn was buried on the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
plant
- with Venjamin M. Schwostow, IIMinz : History of Diplomacy . Verl. F. Foreign language literature. 1947
- Vol. 1.
- Vol. 2. Modern diplomacy (1872–1919)
- Vol. 3. Diplomacy in the period of preparation for the Second World War (1919–1939)
Web links
- Literature by and about Vladimir Petrowitsch Potjomkin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Vladimir Petrovich Potjomkin in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ В. Горячев: Потемкин Владимир Петрович: Биографический Указатель. In: hrono.ru. Retrieved August 13, 2020 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potyomkin, Vladimir Petrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Потёмкин, Владимир Петрович (Russian); Vladimir P. Potemkin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet educator and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tver |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1946 |
| Place of death | Moscow |