Frol Kozlov

Frol Romanovich Kozlov (Russian Фрол Романович Козлов; * 5 Augustjul / August 18 1908greg in Losch Chi Nino in Kasimov, Ryazan province, .. † January 30, 1965 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Life

Rise

Kozlov came from smallholder conditions. At 18, he became in 1926 a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ). He graduated ( as Awerkij Aristov ), the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and soon became a party functionary. He climbed the party ladder rung by rung to the top: 1940-1944 secretary of the city committee of Izhevsk, from 1944 to 1947 in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the CPSU, 1947-1949 Second Secretary in the Provincial Committee of Kuibyshev, 1949-1952 Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee, 1952-1953 then Second Secretary and 1953-1957 first Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee. In 1952, he was - 44 years old - a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. This was followed by a steep climb in the management levels of party and government.

In the center of power

In 1957, the Leningrad party chief Koslow was member of the Political Bureau and elected in the same year and a full member in the highest political body of the USSR, the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), namely for the period from 29 June 1957 to 16 November 1964th from March 31 1958 to 4th Mai1960 he also served as first Deputy Prime Minister of the USSR in the cabinet of Nikita Khrushchev. In government, he was responsible for the complex industry. In 1960, he broke Alexei Kirichenko from as secretary of the Central Committee of the party and was responsible for the major Squad (staff) and organizational matters of the party.

The policy of turning away from China ( 1960) was the conservative Kozlov with only a very limited extent. Also, a more liberal attitude ( Thaw ) from the writers he was skeptical. He was, as Leonid Brezhnev and Michael Suslov, a conservative wing of the party associate.

A possible successor Nikita Khrushchev

After XXII. Congress of the CPSU in October 1961, he moved into the ranking significantly on the second place, just behind Khrushchev, both as party secretary as in government. In fact, he was the Second Secretary in the party. Koslow was until 1963, the " Crown Prince ", as it was called, the most likely candidate for the succession of the 69- year-old Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the CPSU. However, on 10 April 1963 he suffered a stroke from which he never recovered. He lost in 1964 by its different offices and died in 1965. His ashes were buried at the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

Now Brezhnev was enhanced by putting in the party and in 1964 Khrushchev's successor.