Jūlijs Daniševskis
Jūlijs Kārlis Daniševskis (Russian: Карл Юлий Христианович Данишевский, Karl Yuri Hristianovich Danishevsky; 15 May 1884, Doblen County – 8 January 1938, Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast), alias Hermanis, was a Latvian Marxist and professional revolutionary. He was a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory and also of the Revolutionary War Council of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918). Daniševskis was the deputy leader of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic under Pēteris Stučka's leadership.[1]
Arrest and death
During the Great Purge, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation", he was arrested by the NKVD on 16 July 1937. After being convicted by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 8 January 1938, on charges of "participation in the counterrevolutionary terrorist organisation". Daniševskis was shot on 8 January 1938, at the Kommunarka shooting ground, near Moscow. He was rehabilitated on 18 July 1956 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR.[2]
References
- ^ Purs, Aldis; Plakans, Andrejs (2017). Historical Dictionary of Latvia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 9781538102213.
- ^ Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442252813.
- 1884 births
- 1938 deaths
- People from Zemgale
- People from Courland Governorate
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
- Old Bolsheviks
- Latvian communists
- Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic people
- All-Russian Central Executive Committee members
- Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members
- Latvian Operation of the NKVD
- Great Purge victims from Latvia
- People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm
- Latvian people executed by the Soviet Union
- Soviet rehabilitations