Augusts Voss
Augusts Voss Август Эдуардович Восс | |
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First Secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia | |
In office 15 April 1966 – 14 April 1984 | |
Preceded by | Arvīds Pelše |
Succeeded by | Boris Pugo |
Personal details | |
Born | Omsk Governorate, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 30 October 1919
Died | 10 February 1994 Moscow, Russian Federation | (aged 74)
Citizenship | Soviet |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1990) |
Augusts Voss (Russian: Август Эдуардович Восс; 30 October 1919 in Omsk Governorate – 10 February 1994 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and party functionary of Latvian and German origin. Before World War II he worked as a school teacher. In 1940 he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a politruk. From 1945 he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia. From 1966 till 1984 he was First Secretary (later: General Secretary) of the Communist Party of Latvia[1] and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1971 till 1990. From 1984 till 1989 he was Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities (of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR). Voss understood Latvian, but did not use it publicly.[citation needed] He did not return to Latvia and died in Moscow in 1994, where he is also buried.
See also
References
- ^ Walter R. Iwaskiw, ed. (1995). "Latvia: A Country Study". Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
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- 1919 births
- 1994 deaths
- People from Vikulovsky District
- People of Baltic German descent
- Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Communist Party of Latvia politicians
- Seventh convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Eighth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Ninth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Heads of the Communist Party of Latvia
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery