Aaron Soltz

Aron Aleksandrovich Solz (Russian Арон Александрович Сольц, scientific transliteration Aron Aleksandrovich Sol'c; born March 10, 1872 in brine Niki (now Šalčininkai in Lithuania), † April 30, 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary of the 20th century.

Life

Solz was born into a Jewish merchant family in what was then the Empire Russia belonging to Lithuania. In St. Petersburg, he studied law, where we came in contact with revolutionary Krerisen. Since 1898 he was a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia. During the underground work in the following years he met Stalin.

Solz held after the October Revolution senior positions in the Prosecutor's Office and Justice of the Soviet Union. 1931 to 1933 he was one of the responsible leader in the construction of the White Sea Canal, in which for the first time on a large scale forced labor was the means for the realization of a major project in the USSR. During the ' Great Terror ' in the years 1937 to 1938 he advocated a ' certain safeguarding ' of legality. He was released in 1938 from his position and sent to a psychiatric hospital. Early forties but he was released.