Kazimierz Cichowski

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Kazimierz Cichowski
Head of the Minsk Urban Executive Committee
In office
July 1919 – September 1919
Preceded byViktar Yarkin [be]
Succeeded byFritz Küsse [be]
Personal details
Born(1887-12-07)7 December 1887
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political partySocial Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (1907–1917)
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1937)

Kazimierz Cichowski (

Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
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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

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

  1. ^
    Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991
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  2. ^ City governors (since 1879) (РУКОВОДИТЕЛИ ГОРОДА (С 1879 ГОДА)) Archived 2019-01-01 at the Wayback Machine. Minsk City Executive Committee.

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Government offices
Preceded by
office installed
Central Executive Committee chairman
February 1919–July 1920
Succeeded by
office liquidated
Alexander Chervyakov as CEC chair in Belarus