Kazimierz Cichowski
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Kazimierz Cichowski | |
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Head of the Minsk Urban Executive Committee | |
In office July 1919 – September 1919 | |
Preceded by | Viktar Yarkin |
Succeeded by | Fritz Küsse |
Personal details | |
Born | Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | 7 December 1887
Political party | Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (1907–1917) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1937) |
Kazimierz Cichowski (
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
.
Biography
Cichowski was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1907. In 1907–1909 he studied at the University of Liège, and in 1910–1913 at Sorbonne University.[1]
During the
Sovnarkom in December 1917.[1] In September 1918, he became a member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Lithuania.[1]
In 1919 Cichowski was a member of the Lithuanian Provisional
politruk) and editing the newspaper Kommunist.[1]
After the end of the
Polish Sejm.[1] In 1929 Cichowski was arrested again and in 1930 convicted to 8 years in jail.[1] In 1932 he was exchanged.[1]
In September 1932, he returned to the
Comintern (ECCI) at its Executive Committee.[1]
During the Spanish Civil War around January–July 1937, he was in Spain where he was head of the Cadres Department of the International Brigades headquarters.[1] In August 1937, Cichowski was recalled to Moscow, arrested in October or 21 August during the Great Purge, convicted and shot.[1]
References
- ^ Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991.
- ^ City governors (since 1879) (РУКОВОДИТЕЛИ ГОРОДА (С 1879 ГОДА)) Archived 2019-01-01 at the Wayback Machine. Minsk City Executive Committee.
External links
- POLAND: Sectarians & Revisionists Time magazine, 18 March 1957.[verification needed]