| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Vainshtein-Guchkov |
| Name | Moritz |
| Patronym | Iosifovich |
| Birth year | 1901 |
| Birth place | Seslaken |
| Death year | 1937 |
| Death month | 8 |
| Death day | 19 |
| Sex | M |
Vainshtein-Guchkov (Weinstein- Gutchkov) Moritz Iosifovich (00.00.1901, Seslaken (now Valdemārpils), Talsi District, Courland Governorate – 19 August 1937(?)) – Member of the Communist Party of Latvia since 1920, Soviet intelligence operative, one of the founders of the Latvian Komsomol (Communist Youth League).
In 1922, Moritz Vainshtein-Guchkov was expelled from Latvia to the RSFSR. He worked for the Foreign Department (INO) of the OGPU. From 1928, he served as deputy to the illegal resident (espionage chief) in Hamburg. Later, he worked as an instructor in the Party Committee of the NKVD of the USSR.
Moritz Vainshtein-Guchkov was arrested in September 1936 and executed by sentence of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 19 August 1937.
Rehabilitated in 1959.
Publication: The Main Questions of Illegal Work of Trade Unions (published by KIM, Vienna, 1924, in German).