Gustav Klinger

Gustav Klinger
Gustav Klinger in Moscow in 1919
Chairman of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
In office Early-1918 – October 1918
Succeeded by	Ernst Reuter
Personal details
Nationality	German
Political party	Bolsheviks

Gustav Klinger (1876 – 1937? or 1943^[1]) was a Russian Bolshevik politician. Klinger joined the Party in 1917 in time for the revolution and was leader of the Volga German Soviet government 1918. He 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 eventually killed during the Stalinist purges, probably in 1937.

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