Emanuel Kviring

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Emanuel Kviring
Емануїл Йонович Квірінг
Leader of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine
In office
10 April 1923 – 7 April 1925
Preceded by Dmitriy Manuilsky
Succeeded by Lazar Kaganovich
In office
23 October 1918 – 6 March 1919
Preceded by Serafima Hopner
Succeeded by Stanislav Kosior
Personal details
Born (1888-09-13)September 13, 1888
Novouzensk uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire
Died November 26, 1937(1937-11-26) (aged 49)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality German
Alma mater Petersburg Politech

Emanuel Kwiring (Kviring) (Ukrainian: Емануіл Йонович Квірінг) (13 September 1888, Friesenthal, Russian Empire - 26 November 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet politician.

Born into a German family in Friesenthal (now Novolypovka, near Samara, Russia, he became a socialist activist and politician (Socialist-Revolutionary Party from 1906 to 1912, and Bolshevik Party beginning in 1912).

After World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, he was a leader of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (October 1918 - March 1919, and April 1923 - March 1925). He was an opponent of the "Ukrainization" policy, so he had to leave Kharkiv for Moscow. Then he worked as an economist in the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). In 1937, he was arrested and executed by NKVD.