Gustav Klinger

Gustav Klinger (1876 – 1937 ?) was an ethnic German Bolshevik politician. Klinger joined the Party in 1917 in time for the revolution and was leader of the Volga German Soviet government 1918. He was the delegate for the "Communist Party of the German Colonists in Russia" to the Founding Congress of the Comintern in 1919 and became business manager for the newly founded Communist International in 1919, and was elected to the Comintern Executive Committee in 1920. Klinger held various governmental posts in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. He was killed during the Great Purge, probably in 1937, for unknown reasons.