20 August] 1868 – 2 December 1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician, Soviet statesman, political scientist and economist.

Schlichter's grandfather, originally from western Germany (Württemberg), settled in what is the present-day Poltava Oblast of Ukraine in 1818.

Following studies at Kharkiv University, Schlichter joined a student the social democratic circle in 1891.

He was involved in the technical production of the illegal Bolshevik paper Proletary while it appeared in the Russian Empire (1904–1906).

[1][2] In April 1927, he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic.