Wormsbecher, Hugo (Gustavovich)

Hugo Gustavovich Wormsbecher was born 26 June 1938 in the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans.

Hugo Gustavovich was the chairman of the International Union of Russian Germans, vice president of the Federal National Congress of Germans, a member of the USSR State Commission on Soviet German Problems, and arranged for the First Congress of Germans in the USSR in 1965. He also served as deputy head of the department that later became the Department for Russian German Issues in the Ministry of National Policy. For many years, he served on the Intergovernmental Russian-German Commission for the Restoration of Statehood for Russian Germans.

Mr. Wormsbecher initiated the creation of the first post-war literary, artistic, and socio-political journal of Soviet Germans, Heimatliche Veiten, which he headed for ten years. He participated in the creation of the German Drama Theater. With his support and assistance, the Public Academy of Sciences of Russian Germans was established, and the project to publish an Encyclopedia of Russian Germans was successfully completed.

Hugo Wormsbecher died 20 November 2024 in Moscow.

His family originates in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt.