Karl Bauman

Karl Yanovich Bauman (Russian: Карл Янович Бауман, Latvian: Kārlis Baumanis; August 29, 1892 – October 14, 1937) was a Latvian-born Soviet politician and Communist Party functionary.

He was born in Viļķene Parish, Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire to the family of a Latvian peasant; his father died while he was still young.

From September 1924, he was deputy head of the organisation department of the Moscow regional communist party, which at that time was controlled by Nikolai Uglanov.

When the party secretary from one of the Moscow districts reported to the regional bureau in February 1930 that they had succeeded in moving 82.4 per cent of peasant households onto collective farms, in less than two years, Bauman told them it was "too little".

"[5] Despite this and other confessions of error, he was removed from his position on the Politburo at the 16th party congress in July 1930, though he retained his rank as a secretary of the Central Committee.

"[6] In 1934, Bauman was recalled to Moscow and appointed head of the Scientific and Technical Inventions and Discoveries and the Planning, Financial and Trade departments of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

In a letter to Stalin and Molotov, Bauman warned that "many" scientists considered Lysenko's "overall genetic views to be wrong, contradicting modern science" and that they created "a not completely healthy atmosphere.