Background
Illinois’MER, Karl was born in 1891.
Illinois’MER, Karl was born in 1891.
Worker; 1905 member, workers militant squad. Conducted Party work in Riga and Baku. 1914 exiled to Narym Kray.
1916 fled from exile to Petrograd and worked for local Bolshevik military organisation. After 1917 February Revol associate, Latin workers’ newspaper Bor'ba. After 1917 October Revol Commissar for Food, Aleksandr Nevsky Rayon, Petrograd.
1918 sent to Siberia to procure food supplies for Petrograd. Commissar for Food in Akmolinsk Oblast. June 1918, after collapse of Soviet regime in Omsk, sent to do underground work in Tomsk.
Headed the underground Tomsk Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee, helped to organize underground Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Center in Siberia and prepared overthrow of Siberian government under Admiral Kolchak. Together with other members of underground Tomsk Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee arrested by Kolchak military authorities.
Communist Party member from 1908.