Mikhail Frinovsky

Mikhail Petrovich Frinovski (Russian: Михаил Петрович Фриновский, scientific transliteration Mikhail Petrovich Frinovskij; * Januarjul 26 / 7 February 1898greg in Narowtschat, Penza Governorate, .. † February 4, 1940 in Moscow) was a high ranking official of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs NKVD and people's Commissar of the Soviet navy. During the Great Terror in the Soviet Union, he was instrumental in the planning and implementation of the so-called mass operations.

Life

Frinovski, Russian nationality, came as the son of a teacher to the world and completed a middle school education. Beginning of 1916 he went as a volunteer to the Russian army. In August 1916, he deserted and joined an anarchist group. In 1917 he took part in Moscow on July uprising. In September 1917, he joined the Red Guard. He commanded a group of Red Guards and was severely wounded in the attack on the Kremlin. Until February 1918 he was treated in hospital.

In 1927 he completed a course at the Military Academy, "M. W. Frunze ". In 1930 he became head of the OGPU in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1933 to 1936 he headed the central administration for border and internal protection of the OGPU and the NKVD. He then became deputy, then first deputy Nikolai Yezhov from, the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR. From 1937 to 1938, he also performed the duties of the Department of conductor cross-border and internal protection of the NKVD.

Frinovski worked closely with Yezhov and played a leading role in secret repression campaigns that were directed against " kulaks ," " criminals," and " other anti-Soviet elements " (→ NKVD Order No. 00447 ) as well as against national minorities.

On September 8, 1938 Stalin Frinovski appointed People's Commissar of the Soviet navy. This was actually a demotion because Frinovski suddenly found himself in an environment without security and power by long -time confidante. On 6 April 1939 took his arrest. He was accused of being involved in a conspiracy within the NKVD. On February 4, 1940 he was shot. Frinovski was not rehabilitated.