Vasily Schmidt

Vasily Vladimirovich Schmidt (December 17, 1886 – July 28, 1938) was a Bolshevik politician, and later a Soviet statesman.

Schmidt at the 8th Party Congress in 1919.

Born in Saint Petersburg to an ethnic German Russian family.[1]

A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1905.

From February 1917, he became the secretary of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP (B) and the Central Council of Trade Unions of Petrograd and a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee.

On 1 December 1918, he was appointed People's Commissar for Labour, a post he held until 29 November 1928. At the same time a member of the Presidium and secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. He was particularly concerned with the statification of the trade unions.[2]

During the Great Purge, he was arrested on January 5, 1937. Convicted on June 3, 1937 to 10 years in prison, on January 28, 1938, he was sentenced to capital punishment and shot on the same day.

Schmidt was rehabilitated on July 30, 1957.

References
  1. State power of the USSR. The highest authorities and management and their leaders. 1923-1991 Historical and biographical reference book. / Comp. V.I. Ivkin. Moscow, 1999.
  2. Kaplan (1968) p 255

Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Frederick (1968). Bolshevik Ideology and the Ethics of Soviet labor. Philosophical library, New York.
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