Gutnik, Sergey Mikhailovich

Sergey Mikhailovich Gutnik (December 23, 1868, Belgorod-Dniester , Bessarabia , Russian Empire -?) - an influential Odessa financier, Ukrainian public and political figure of the era of the second Getman.

Jewish descent. Head of the Odessa Exchange Committee. Member of the constitutional democratic party (cadets) . From May 3 to October 24, 1918 - Minister of Trade and Industry of the Ukrainian Power .

May 15, 1918 took part in the opening of a congress of representatives of industry, trade, finance and agriculture of Ukraine ( Protofis ). Before the meeting closed, he announced that he would find a loan for industry on a commercial basis, while he told industrialists that gold "will not flow into your pockets, but will fertilize the life of the entire Ukrainian people."

One of the active supporters of the economic war between Ukraine and Romania , as the latter arbitrarily occupied Bessarabia at the beginning of the year.

August 20, 1918 received special rights to regulate external trade. As the head of the delegation of representatives of the Ukrainian Power, he signed on her behalf on September 10, 1918, "An economic agreement between the Ukrainian Power on the one, and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other, on the economic year 1918/1919."

One of the authors of the so-called. "Notes of nine" ministers of October 17, 1918, which led to a crisis in the government of F. A. Lizogub and changes in the foreign policy of Ukraine. Pavel Skoropadsky had high hopes for the possibilities and abilities of Gutnik:

Gutnik is the Minister of Industry. I will say one thing: he is brilliantly smart, but he did very little for Ukraine ^[1] .

Since 1910, the owner of the mansion in Odessa, on the street. Sofievskaya d. 21.

After the Bolsheviks came to power in Ukraine, he emigrated to Turkey. In 1920-1922 member of the Constantinople group of the cadet party.

Date and place of death is unknown.