Maximilian Henryk Horwitz ( Horwitz , Polish. Maksymilian Henryk Horwitz , better known by the party pseudonym Henrik Walecki of Poland. Henryk Walecki , also Maximilian Gustavovich Walecki ; August 27 ( September 6 ), 1872 , Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland , Russia - September 20, 1937 , Moscow , USSR ) - leader of the Polish and international communist movement. Ph.D.
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Biography
In 1898 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Ghent . Since 1895, a member of the Belgian Workers' Party, a member of the Foreign Union of Polish Socialists. In 1898 he returned to Warsaw, where he conducted propaganda work among Jewish workers. In 1899, he was arrested and imprisoned, in which he translated the book by Henri Poincaré , Science and Hypothesis . Exiled to Siberia, from where he fled. In 1902-1905 - in Switzerland. In 1904, a member of the Polish delegation to the Congress of the Second International in Amsterdam . Participant in the events of 1905-1907. In 1905, while in prison again, he wrote a pamphlet entitled “ On the Jewish Question ”. In 1906-1918 - in the leadership of the Polish Socialist Party - the left . In 1907-1914 he was in Vienna, where he worked in several Polish magazines. In the years 1915-1918 - again in Switzerland. In 1918, one of the organizers of the Communist Party of Poland (PPC). In the years 1918-1925 (with a break in 1919-1923) a member of the Central Committee of the checkpoint. In 1921-1925 - representative of the checkpoint in the Comintern. In 1922 - member of the Presidium of the Comintern. In 1922, on instructions from the Comintern, he was sent to the United States, and in 1923 to Germany. Since 1923 - in the apparatus of the Comintern. Since 1935 - member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. In 1935-1937, the editor of the journal "Communist International". In 1925 he was transferred from members of the KPP to members of the CPSU (b) , with the preservation of experience since 1905. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on June 21, 1937 by the NKVD and was executed on September 20, 1937. Walecki was rehabilitated after the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The daughter of Katarzyna (Kasya) Belskaya was married to a heat power engineer J. L. Taner-Tanenbaum [1] . Son - Peter Maksimilianovich Walecki, an organic chemist.
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Literature
- Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . 4th ed. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1988. - p. 190
- Russian Jewish Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. G. G. Branover (t. 3) - Moscow, EPOS, 1997 .-- p. 300 - ISBN 965-293-05-12