Otto Corvin ( Hungarian Korvin Ottó , nee Otto Klein ; March 24, 1894 , Nagybochko (now Great Bychkov , Rakhiv district of Transcarpathian region ) - December 29, 1919 , Budapest ) - Hungarian revolutionary , one of the organizers of the Communist Party of Hungary , head of the political department of the People’s Commissariat Interior of the Hungarian Soviet Republic .
| Otto Corwin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 24, 1894 |
| Place of Birth | Great Bychkov |
| Date of death | December 29, 1919 (25 years old) |
| Place of death | Budapest |
| Citizenship |  Austria-Hungary |
| Occupation | |
| The consignment | Communist Party of Hungary |
Biography
He was born in a Jewish intellectual family in the territory of modern Transcarpathia . The brother of Jozsef (Joseph Sigismundovich) Kelen , an engineer and also a leader of the communist movement. From there, the family moved to Marmarosh-Sighet , and in 1906 to Budapest, where Otto became a member of the free-thinking "Mug of Galilee" and met people like Tibor Samueli . By profession - a bank employee. At the same time, Klein was preparing to become a poet and in 1912 published a collection of his poems; his creative pseudonym Corwin eventually became political.
He became acquainted with Marxism only in 1917, when he listened to the speech of Erwin Szabo and on May Day took part in the first working demonstration during the years of World War II. He was active in the anti-militarist movement, inside it became the leader of the most important group of "revolutionary socialists". In his leaflets urged the workers to create revolutionary councils. At the end of 1918 he was among the co-founders of the Communist Party of Hungary, became a member of its Central Committee and treasurer. February 20, 1919 was arrested. A month later, on March 21, 1919, it was he who typed the typewriter agreement on the unification of the Communists and Social Democrats into a single socialist party. In the same year, he officially changed his name to Corvin.
During the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, he first headed the department of trade in the economic people's commissariat, but then he was put at the head of the political department of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, where he collaborated with Imre Shallai . At the Hungarian Congress of Soviets on July 23, he was elected to the CEC.
After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Bela Kun left Corvin (with documents in the name of Blue Cornish) and György Lukács in Budapest to establish the illegal work of the Communist Party of Hungary. However, Corwin was caught, tortured, sentenced to death, and killed during the Hungarian White Terror .
In his interview with New Left Review , György Lukács put Otto Corvin on a par with Che Guevara and Eugene Levine [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Georg Lukacs. Interview On His Life and Work. New Left Review , I / 68, July-August 1971