Marcel Izrailevich Rosenberg (1896 — 5 March 1938) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

diplomat. Rosenberg was born into the family of a Jewish trader who in 1906 emigrated from Poland with his family to

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was na ...

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

and later to

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. Rosenberg was the first Soviet ambassador to

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' ( Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , ...

, he served during the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...

. Recalled to the Soviet Union in 1937, he was soon executed during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...

. He was succeeded in office by

Leon Gaikis Leonid Yakovlevich Gaikis (Gaykis, Hajkis, Jaikis, Khaikis; 1898, Warsaw — 21 August 1937, Moscow) was Soviet diplomat and the second Soviet ambassador to Spain, where he served during the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, he was recalled to Moscow, ...

, who faced a similar fate.

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1896 births 1938 deaths Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Spain Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet people of the Spanish Civil War Jews from the Russian Empire 19th-century Polish Jews Soviet Jews Diplomats from Warsaw People from Warsaw Governorate Permanent Representatives to the League of Nations Soviet people of Polish-Jewish descent Great Purge victims from Poland Executed people from Masovian Voivodeship Jews executed by the Soviet Union Jewish socialists {{Russia-diplomat-stub