Karl Moor (Swiss banker), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss communist
Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1853
Place of Birth: Fribourg, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Date of Death: 14-Jun-1932
Profession: politician
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Karl Moor (Swiss banker)
- Karl Moor (11 December 1852 in Fribourg – 14 June 1932 in Berlin) was a Swiss communist, and a channel for German financing of the 19th-century European Bolshevik movement. He was the illegitimate son of Swiss citizen Mary Moor, of Vordemwald, and the Swiss aristocrat Ernest de Stoeklin, of Fribourg.
- Moor studied at universities in both Switzerland and Germany.
- In the 1870s his passion for the ideas of socialism led him to take part in the work of the banned Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- In the spring of 1881 he was expelled from Bavaria and moved to Basel.
- There he became one of the eminent functionaries of Swiss social democracy.
- In 1889 he lived in Bern, where he edited the social-democratic newspaper Berner Tagwacht.
- During this period he provided assistance to many political exiles from Russia, as well as leaders of the Peoples' First Polish Socialist Party, "Proletariat," and the Bolsheviks-Lenintsev. 4 May 1917 Moor was a report in the MFA Germany, which reported that he had « «made probing a number of representatives of various groups of pacifist’s wing (in the Russians), the Socialists and they said that it would be very desirable that a systematic, intensive and effective campaigning in favor of peace would be maintained by someone of the well-known neutral comrades.
- After they were clear, and I would say, good willingness to accept financial support for it to work for peace, I said that for its part, would be happy to provide a substantial amount for such a noble, humane and international goals ». He further suggested the following principles: 1.
- Personality of sponsor guarantees that money will come from an unsuspected source 2.
- Sponsor or mediator should be provided with the entry into Russia with the money, 3.
- In order to implement an immediate allocation of funds necessary to have them in the form of cash, and the most appropriate form here would be the Swiss currency. As a result, in July 1917 of Moor was in Russia and supplied the Bolsheviks «loan» in the amount of 32,837 dollars, allegedly from the inheritance. In 1922, Moor with great difficulty made a partial return «loan». On 14 June 1932, Moor died in Berlin. It was clarified that he was a German spy after World War I.
- His code name was "Bayer".
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