Alexander Heckmann

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Alexander Ivanovich Heckmann (Russian: Александр Иванович Гекман, romanized: Aleksandr Ivanovich Gekman; 17 August 1908 – 1994) was a Soviet–Volga German politician. From 1938 to 1941, he served as the last head of government of the Volga German ASSR. Heckmann was born in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire, into the family of a bricklayer in the village of Goly Karamysh (German name Balzer; today part of the city of Krasnoarmeysk). From the age of ten he worked as a spool craftsman and poster. In 1922 he joined the Komsomol and took an active part in building a pioneer organization in Balzer. In 1926 he entered the workers' faculty of Saratov. In 1930 he joined the CPSU. In 1934 he graduated from the Saratov Institute of Agricultural Mechanization. As a student, he actively participated in the collectivization and dekulakization in the area. From 1935 he worked as an electrical engineer in companies of the People's Commissariats for Light Industry and Agriculture.