Alfons Noviks

 ( 1908 Births ) 

After the occupation of Latvia in June 1940, Noviks was appointed head of the State Security Department of the Ministry of the Interior and a member of the collborationist People's Saeima. After the annexation of Latvia into the USSR, he became the head of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the Latvian SSR. From February 26, 1941, he was the State Security Commissioner of the Latvian SSR. From 1940 to 1954, he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. After the attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, he worked in the central NKVD apparatus and headed the department of Soviet Latvia. After the re-entry of the Red Army into Latvia, Noviks again became the head of the Latvian SSR's People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. From September 9, 1945, he was a Major General and led campaign against the remaining Forest Brothers. After Stalin's death in 1953, he became Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry of the Latvian SSR. In January 1954, he served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Latvian SSR. Noviks retired in 1955 and lived near Mežaparks in Riga.

After the restoration of Latvia's independence, Noviks was arrested on March 15, 1994. On December 13, 1995, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity - having signed orders for the Soviet deportations from Latvia from 1949 to 1953. He died while serving his sentence at Riga Central Prison on March 12, 1996.