Kārlis Landers

Kārlis Landers (Russian: Карл Иванович Ландер, romanized: Karl Ivanovich Lander; 5 April 1883 – 29 July 1937) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman, official of the Soviet state security of the Cheka and OGPU, as well as an historian and journalist.

Kārlis Landers
People's Commissar of State Control of the RSFSR
In office
9 May 1918  25 March 1919
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished (Joseph Stalin as People's Commissar of Rabkrin)
Personal details
Born5 April 1883
Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died29 July 1937(1937-07-29) (aged 49)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (1905–1918)
Russian Communist Party (b) (1918–1937)
OccupationRevolutionary, politician, journalist, historian
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