Emmanuel Ionovich Quiring (Russian: Эммануил Ионович Квиринг, Ukrainian: Емануіл Йонович Квірінг; 13 September 1888 – 26 November 1937) was a Soviet politician and statesman of Volga German descent. Due to transliteration, he may have spelled his family name as Kviring or Kwiring.
Born into a German family in Friesenthal, in the Samara Governorate of the
Bolshevik Party
beginning in 1912).
After
Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine in 1918, he became one of the leaders of the Yekaterinoslav wing of the party (Donets-Krivoi Rog wing) standing in opposition to the Kiev wing (Southwestern wing) led by Pyatakov and Skripnik. He was an opponent of the "Ukrainization" policy, so he had to leave Kharkiv for Moscow. He then worked as an economist in the State Planning Committee (Gosplan
).
In 1937, he was arrested and executed by the NKVD. In 1956, Kwiring was posthumously rehabilitated by a decision of the USSR Supreme Court.[1]