Yrjö Sirola
Yrjö Sirola Elias (born 27 jul. / 8. November 1876 greg. In the province Abosk, Grand Duchy of Finland ; † 18th March 1936 in Moscow ) was a Finnish politician. He was a founding member and first chairman of the Communist Party of Finland ( Suomen communistinen puolue , SKP).
Life
From 1903 to 1918 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). From 1905 to 1906 Sirola was Secretary General there and in 1917 a member of the Finnish Reichstag. In 1918 he co-founded the Communist Party of Finland. From 1920 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (EKKI). In 1922 Sirola stayed in Germany and from 1922 to 1927 was Vice-Rector of the Leningrad Branch of the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West . From 1928 to 1935 he was a member of the International Control Commission (IKK) of the Comintern . From 1929 to 1930 he worked as People's Commissar for Popular Education in the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . In 1930 Sirola was appointed head of the Finnish sector of the International Lenin School in Moscow.
Honors
The SKP party school, the Sirola Institute, was named after its first party leader.
literature
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Alexander J. Watlin (ed.): The world party from Moscow. The founding congress of the Communist International in 1919. Protocol and new documents . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004495-0 , pp. 374 . ( limited preview on Google Books)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Lübbe: Cultural foreign relations of the GDR: The example of Finland , research institute of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1981, p. 160 ( limited preview at Google Books ).
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| SURNAME | Sirola, Yrjö |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sirola, Yrjö Elias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician (SDP, SKP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abosk Governorate, Grand Duchy of Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1936 |
| Place of death | Moscow |