Emanuel Kviring

Emanuel or Emmanuel Ionovich Kviring was a Soviet politician and statesman of Volga-German descent.

Biography

Born into a German family in Friesenthal, in the Samara Governorate of the Russian Empire, he became a socialist activist and politician.
After World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, he was a leader of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. Upon creation of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine in 1918, he became one of the leaders of the Yekaterinoslav wing of the party standing in opposition to the Kiev wing led by Pyatakov and Skripnik. He was an opponent of the policy of Ukrainization, so he had to leave Kharkov for Moscow. He then worked as an economist in the State Planning Committee.
In 1937, he was arrested and executed by the NKVD. In 1956, Kviring was posthumously rehabilitated by a decision of the USSR Supreme Court.