Emanuel Kwiring (Kviring) ([Емануіл Йонович Квірінг] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) (13 September 1888, Friesenthal, Russian Empire - 26 November 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet politician.
Emanuel Kviring Емануїл Йонович Квірінг | |
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| Leader of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine | |
| In office 10 April 1923 – 7 April 1925 | |
| Preceded by | Dmitriy Manuilsky |
| Succeeded by | Lazar Kaganovich |
| In office 23 October 1918 – 6 March 1919 | |
| Preceded by | Serafima Hopner |
| Succeeded by | Georgiy Pyatakov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 13, 1888 Novouzensk uyezd, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 26, 1937 (aged 49) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | middle school drop-out |
Born into a German family in Friesenthal (now Novolypovka, near Samara, Russia, he became a socialist activist and politician (Socialist-Revolutionary Party from 1906 to 1912, and Bolshevik Party beginning in 1912).
After World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, he was a leader of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (October 1918 - March 1919, and April 1923 - March 1925). He was an opponent of the "Ukrainization" policy, so he had to leave Kharkiv for Moscow. Then he worked as an economist in the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). In 1937, he was arrested and executed by NKVD.