Stanislav Messing

Stanislav Adamovich Messing (Russian: Станислав Адамович Мессинг) (1890, Warsaw, Russian Tsar Empire – September 2, 1937, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet national party leader and a leader of the Soviet state security and intelligence bodies.

[1][2] Stanislav Messing was born into a Jewish family, the child of a musician and a midwife (accoucheuse).

Due to financial difficulties, he only finished four classes in grammar school, after which he studied to become a locksmith.

In 1908, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Poland, where he met Felix Dzerzhinsky and Józef Unszlicht, who had given him patronage after the Great Revolution of 1917.

In 1911, Messing returned to his homeland and continued to participate in the activities of the Social Democratic Party of Poland.