Alexander Schlichter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Schlichter

Ukrainian politician

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: Lubny, Poltava Governorate, Ukraine

Date of Death: 02-Dec-1940

Profession: politician, economist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Alexander Grigorievich Schlichter (????????? ??????????? ???????) (1868–1940) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik politician. Schlichter's grandfather, originally from western Germany (Württemberg), settled in what is the present-day Poltava Oblast of Ukraine in 1818.
Schlichter was ethnically one-quarter German and three-fourths Ukrainian. Following studies at Kharkiv University, Schlichter joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1891.
He was involved in the technical production of the illegal Bolshevik paper Proletary while it appeared in the Russian Empire (1904–1906). After the Bolshevik seizure of power he succeeded Vladimir Milyutin as People's Commissar for Agriculture.
He also was People's Commissar for Food of the R.S.F.S.R., Commissar Extraordinary for Food in Siberia.
In 1919 he became People's Commissar for Food of the Ukraine. In 1920 he was Chairman of the Tambov Gubernia Executive Committee, and was involved in the suppression of the Tambov Rebellion.In April 1927 he attended the Fourth Congress of Soviets as commissar of agriculture in the Ukrainian Republic.
There he described 10% of the rural population of Ukraine as being "surplus".