Vilhelm Knorin
Vilhelm Knorin | |
|---|---|
| Вильгельм Кнорин Vilhelms Knoriņš | |
Knorin in 1937 | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia | |
| In office 7 May 1927 – 4 December 1928 | |
| Preceded by | Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas |
| Succeeded by | Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky |
| In office 25 November 1920 – May 1922 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Krinitsky |
| Succeeded by | Yan Gamarnik |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 August 1890 Līgatne, Cēsu apriņķis, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 July 1939 (aged 48) Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Latvian |
| Political party | RSDLP (b) (1910-1918) All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918-1937) |
| Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Byelorussia |
| Profession | Historian, journalist |
Vilhelm Georgiyevich Knorin (Russian: Вильге́льм Гео́ргиевич Кно́рин, Latvian: Vilhelms "Vilis" Knoriņš; (29 August 1890 – 29 July 1939) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, publicist and historian.