Yakov Ganetsky

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Yakov Stanislavovich Ganetsky also known as Jakub Fürstenberg (Fuerstenberg) (Russian: Яков (Якуб) Станиславович Ганецкий (Фюстенберг)) (15 March 1879, Warsaw — 26 November 1937), a prominent Old Bolshevik and close associate of Vladimir Lenin[1]. Famous as one of the financial wizards who arranged via close working relationship with Alexander Parvus the secret German funding that saved the Bolsheviks. After the October Revolution of 1917 served as Chief Soviet banker[2], trade representative and Ambassador to Latvia. On behalf of Soviet government signed Peace of Riga and Treaty of Kars. His last post was of a director of the Museum of the Revolution of the USSR, presently State Historical Museum. He was executed during Stalin's purges as a witness who knew too much. He has been rehabilitated posthumously.

[edit] Biography

Yakov Ganetsky was born in Warsaw, Poland in a family of a factory owner of Jewish origin. In 1896 entered RSDRP(b), the Bolshevik fraction and was also member of The Bund. He moved to Germany in 1901 and studied in rapid succession at Berlin, Heidelberg and Zurich universities. He worked as a salesman. In 1903-09 Yakov Ganetsky was one of the leaders and the member of the main administration of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL) and an active participant in revolution 1905-07 in Poland.

For his revolutionary activities Yakov Ganetsky was repeatedly arrested. Since 1907 he was member of Central Committee of RSDRP(b). During the division of SDKPiL (1912-16) the member of boundary administration and one of the leaders of "pro Lenin" fraction.

During the World War I Yakov Ganetsky in association with Alexander Parvus and Karl Radek was involved into secret negotiations with the German General Staff regarding funding of the Bolsheviks and was one of the organizers of this action (Copenhagen operation) as well as mediator between Lenin and the Germans. He was one of the organizers of Lenin's return in a "sealed train" from exile in Switzerland to Russia in 1917.

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  1. ^ Russian: Залесский К.А. Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь. Москва, Вече, 2000 (Zalesskiy K.A. Stalin's Empire. Biographical enceclopedic dictionary. Moscow, Meeting, 2000)
  2. ^ Russian: Яков Станиславович Ганецкий (настоящая фамилия — Фюрстенберг) Исполняющий обязанности Главного комиссара Народного банка РСФСР в ноябре 1918 г. — январе 1920 г.

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