![]() ![]() On his arrival he was escorted back to prison, only to be released under the terms of an amnesty. Nevertheless, he managed to escape and flee to the Soviet Union in 1925, returning to Romania in 1929. His activities brought him to the attention of the Romanian authorities: he was arrested and sentenced first to ten years imprisonment, and then to labour for life. In December 1921, Pauker was designated a member of the Provisional Committee of the Communist Party of Romania in 1922, his position became that of member of the Central Committee and the Politburo, being sent as delegate to the Balkan Communist Federation Conferences in Sofia (June 1922) and Berlin (1923). Between 19, he lived in Switzerland for a second time, receiving his diploma in engineering. ![]() He briefly studied engineering in Zürich, before enlisting as an artillery cadet and becoming a Second Lieutenant in 1916 (during World War I). Marcel Pauker (rendered in Russian as Марцел Паукер - Martsel Pauker December 6, 1896, Bucharest – August 16, 1938, Butovo, near Moscow) was a Romanian communist militant and husband of the future Romanian Communist leader Ana Pauker.ĭuring his life, Pauker took a series of pseudonyms, the ones used most being: Burghezul, Herman Gugenheim, Paul Lampart, Luximin, Puiu, Priu, Semionovici Marin, Stepan, and Paul Weiss.īorn to a secular Jewish family, Marcel Pauker was a polyglot, and noted speaker of Esperanto. ![]()
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