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Veizager Sigizmund Mikhailovich (1902-1938)

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SurnameVeizager
NameSigizmund
PatronymMikhailovich
Birth year1902
Birth placeRiga
Death year1938
SexM

Veizager (Weisager) Sigizmund Mikhailovich (born 1902, Riga – executed 1938?) – state security officer.

Sigizmund Veizager was born into the family of a jeweller. In 1919, he completed six classes of a gymnasium in Petrograd. A member of the Communist Party since 1920. Held the rank of captain of state security (1936). Worked as a commissar, chairman of the Gdov County Committee, and military investigator for the Petrograd Provincial Committee for Combating Desertion. From 1920 to 1921, he was engaged in military-political, party, and trade union work in Petrograd and the Petrograd province.

From May 1921, he served in the Cheka. He was an officer of the plenipotentiary representation of the Cheka–GPU in the Petrograd Military District, special border department representative in Gdov, senior officer of the plenipotentiary representation of the Cheka–GPU, and deputy head of the special department of the 16th Division. From 1923, he worked for the OGPU's plenipotentiary representation in Central Asia: head of special departments of the 11th Cavalry Division in Bukhara and the 8th Gomel Cavalry Division, head of the Gorno-Badakhshan regional department of the GPU and, simultaneously, (likely) on the Pamirs.

From 1928, he served in the Foreign Department (INO) of the OGPU. He worked under the cover of the position of Consul General of the USSR in Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan).

From January 1930, he held various positions in the GPU–NKVD of Belarus: assistant head of the Gomel District (position unspecified), head of the Gomel City Department of the GPU, assistant head and later head of the Economic Department of the OGPU Plenipotentiary Representation in the BSSR. In 1933–35, he headed the Economic Department of the OGPU–NKVD Plenipotentiary Representation in Kazakhstan. In subsequent years, he served as assistant head of the NKVD and concurrently head of the Economic Department of the NKVD in the West Siberian region, then held similar positions in the NKVD of Sverdlovsk Oblast. From January 1937, he was head of the NKVD and People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Mordovian ASSR.

Sigizmund Veizager was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the BSSR and the badge “Honorary Worker of the Cheka–GPU.”

Arrested on 21 November 1937. Sentenced to death in a special procedure on charges of espionage and executed on 9 May 1938. Rehabilitated in 1994.