Vilhelm Knorin

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Vilhelm Knorin
Вильгельм Кнорин Vilhelms Knoriņš
Knorin in 1937
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
In office 7 May 1927 – 4 December 1928
Preceded by	Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas
Succeeded by	Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky
In office 25 November 1920 – May 1922
Preceded by	Alexander Krinitsky
Succeeded by	Yan Gamarnik
Personal details
Born	(1890-08-29)29 August 1890 Līgatne, Cēsu apriņķis, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died	29 July 1937(1937-07-29) (aged 46) Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Nationality	Latvian
Political party	RSDLP (b) (1910-1918) All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918-1937)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of Byelorussia
Profession	Historian, journalist

Vilgelm Georgiyevich Knorin (Russian: Вильге́льм Гео́ргиевич Кно́рин, Latvian: Vilhelms "Vilis" Knoriņš; (29 August 1890 – 29 July 1939) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, publicist and historian.