Hotel Lux

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Hotel Lux was a hotel in Moscow, were quartered in the leading in the early years of the Soviet Union Communist emigrants.

History

The hotel was built in 1911 as a hotel Franzija (Hotel France) by the son of the baker Ivan Filippov Tverskaya 36 as a four-story building. The hotel was also home to the Filippowsche café.

After the victory of the October Revolution, the hotel in " Люкс ( ъ )" was renamed what the standard French hotel name " (de) luxe ", but not the Latin word " lux " corresponds translated so would the hotel name in the German Luxe or luxury loud. From 1921, the guest house of the Communist International was housed there. 1933 extended to the house two floors. At this time the hotel had 300 rooms and could accommodate some 600 people. The address was now Ulitsa Gorkowo ( Gorky Street ) 10

The living there in the 1930s, mainly German exiles were very well catered for Moscow standards, although residents of rat infestations reported. Many residents of the Hotel Lux were at the time of the Great Terror 1936-1938 arrested, interrogated and tortured by the NKVD. After the conviction on the basis z.T. arbitrary accusations that people in prison camps (see Gulag ) were deported or executed. In October 1941, the Lux was, as German troops were only a few miles from Moscow, evacuated to Ufa. However, in February 1942, the residents returned back already.

Towards the end of the Second World War the hotel for a short time housed the Ulbricht Group, which flew from here on 30 April 1945 by Germany.

The last " political" left in 1954 the hotel. Then it was a normal hotel as " Hotel Central Well " again.

For years, the building is being renovated.

Personalities

  • Ruth Fischer was held ten months under house arrest during their KPD exclusion.
  • Wolfgang Leonhard, 1943
  • Ruth Mayen castle, KPO
  • Heinz Neumann and Margarete Buber- Neumann, KPD
  • Walter and Lotte Ulbricht, 1935
  • Herbert Wehner, 1937 to early 1941

Other residents: Bolesław Bierut, Willi Bredel, Georgi Dimitrov, Fritz Erpenbeck, Klement Gottwald, Antonio Gramsci, Aino and Otto Kuusinen, Elisabeth Markstein, Imre Nagy, Wilhelm Pieck, Theodor Plivier, Ernst Reuter, Rudolf Slansky, Richard Sorge, Ernst Thalmann, Josip Broz Tito, Togliatti, Erich Weinert, Markus Wolf, Clara Zetkin

Communist party Communist Party of Germany Palmiro Togliatti Ernst Fischer (writer) Ho Chi Minh Heinrich Breloer Hotel Lux (Film)
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