Moisei Uritsky

Moissei Solomonovich Uritzky (Russian Моисей Соломонович Урицкий; * 1873 in Cherkassy, ​​Ukraine; † August 30, 1918 in Petrograd ) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician.

Life

Uritzky was born in Cherkassy in a family of Jewish origin. His father, a merchant, died when Uritzky was still very young, so he was raised by his mother.

While studying law at the University of Kiev is Uritzky the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia joined and participated in the formation of a network, via the political literature to Russia was introduced and disseminated. 1897 Uritzky was initially arrested for the operation of an illegal print shop and then driven for a short time into exile. He was a member of the revolutionary General Jewish Workers' Union in 1903 and a Menshevik. After the Russian Revolution of 1905, he had to because of his activities in St. Petersburg, with whom he had supported the revolution, go back into exile. Together with Alexander Parvus, he sent revolutionary agents to Russia, which should undermine the tsarist security apparatus.

Given the turmoil of the erupting Russian Civil War and the assassination of the Ambassador of the German Reich Wilhelm von Mirbach Harff in Moscow Uritzky took on July 9, 1918 back to work.