Valery Mezhlauk

Valery Mezhlauk
Валерий Межлаук
Valērijs Mežlauks
Born
Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk

(1893-02-07)February 7, 1893
Died29 July 1938(1938-07-29) (aged 45)
Cause of deathExecuted during Stalin's Great Purge
NationalityLatvian–German
CitizenshipUSSR
OfficeChairman of the State Planning Committee (1934–1937)
Political partyRSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1907–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
SpouseCharna Markovna Mezhlauk (Maers-Mikhailova) (1902–1941)
Relatives

Valery Ivanovich Mezhlauk (Russian: Вале́рий Ива́нович Межла́ук; Latvian: Valērijs Mežlauks) (1893–1938) was a government and party official in the Soviet Union during the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best remembered as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) from 1934 to 1937. He became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge and was executed on July 29, 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.