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Voldemar or Vladimir Khristianovich Aussem (; ; – after 1936) was a Russian nobleman and revolutionary,
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official and Soviet
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.


Life

Aussem was born in
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into the family of a teacher and nobleman of
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origin. From 1899 he studied at the
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Institute of Technology until his arrest in 1901, the same year in which he joined the
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, after which he was sentenced to administrative exile in
Oryol Oryol ( rus, Орёл, , ɐˈrʲɵl, a=ru-Орёл.ogg, links=y, ), also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, situated on the Oka Rive ...
. From 1914 until 1917 he served in the
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, and after the
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he served in various capacities of the communist hierarchy in
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. On 30 November 1918 he became Chief of Staff of the
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, from 19191920 he was in the
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. In 1921 he was posted to
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as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the
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to
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, until 16 July 1923 when the representation was switched to the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, which saw him staying in Germany as Adviser to the
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of the USSR. On 21 May 1924 he was posted to
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as Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Austria, and stayed in the
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n capital until 10 December 1924. After the completion of his
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in Austria, he returned to the
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and became Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy in that
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, until 1926 when he became the Trade Representative of the USSR in
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. In December 1927 he was expelled from the
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, and at some stage became Scientific Secretary of the
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Regional Planning Commission until May 1929, when he was arrested, and sentenced in 1930 to 3 years exile in the
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. He was released in 1932, and became chief of the Chemical division of the Orlyov Sanitary Biological Institute, until his arrest again on 15 January 1933, whereby he was sentenced to another 3 years of exile in
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. He was released in 1936. Aussem disappeared some time in 1937 while some sources claim he was shot. He was rehabilitated in 1989.


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