Background
AUSSEM, Otto was born in 1875. Son of a teacher.
AUSSEM, Otto was born in 1875. Son of a teacher.
From 1893 in revol movement. Active in student movement in Moscow. Ran workers’ clubs in Kiev.
1898 joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party. 1899 exiled for threee years to Vologda Province. After release, smuggled illegal lit into Russia.
1904 worked in Yuzovka. 1905 ed, journal Kolokol in Poltava. 1905 attended conference of Party military organisation in Terioki.
1906-1907 worked for Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party military organisation in Warsaw under alias Aleksandr Sventoslavskiv. 1907 sentenced to hard labor for these activities. After 1917 October Revol government and Party posts in Chita, Blagoveshchensk and Nikolayev-on Amur.
Fought with partisans in Far East. Member, Military-Revol Staff, Amur-Sakhalin Kray. 1920 chairman, Nikolayev-Amur Oblast Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
1922 secretary, Yalta Okrug Party Committee. From 1923 in Berlin and Prague on work for Ukraine People's Commissariat of Education. 1924 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics consul-general in Paris.
Communist Party member from 1906.