Alexander Georgievich Kotikov

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Alexander Georgievich Kotikov, 1946

Alexander Georgievich Kotikov ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Котиков ; born August 14, jul. / 27. August  1902 greg. In Bakino in Tula Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 19th July 1981 in Moscow ) was a Soviet general and 1946-1950 Commandant of Soviet sector of Berlin .

Previous training and World War II

As the son of a peasant family, Kotikow trained as a coppersmith . In 1920 he joined the Communist Party . Later he was a career officer and political instructor in the Red Army . His son Genrich was born in 1926 and named after Heinrich Heine . Kotikow graduated from the military academy in 1930 and was a staff officer from 1941. He was used in the German-Soviet war in western Russia and the Baltic states . Through his staff position he was involved in the fighting on the Volkhov Front and also in the liberation of Warsaw and Berlin . In 1944 he was appointed major general. Until the end of World War II he was chief of the political department of the 61st Soviet Army.

Soviet military administration in the province of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

After the war, Kotikow was head of the Soviet military administration (SMA) for the province of Saxony and after its merger with Anhalt for Saxony-Anhalt , based in Halle (Saale) . He was responsible for civil and economic affairs in these areas including the dismantling of East German industrial plants for reparation payments . Kotikov introduced the Moscow time on July 20, 1945 , as it was in other parts of the Soviet occupation zone. He lifted this measure on September 28, 1945. On February 1, 1946, he took part in the official reopening ceremony of the University of Halle . The SMA order no. 31 allowed the continuation of teaching with the restriction that teaching in the institutes for applied physics, technical chemistry and physical exercise as well as in the seminars for Indo-European studies was prohibited.

As commander of the Soviet sector Berlin 1946–1950

Kotikow gives a speech at the Berlin Allied Parade in front of the Reichstag on May 8, 1946. Representatives of the Allied Command Office include Major General Ray W. Barker (left, USA) and Major General Eric P. Nares (far right, Great Britain).
Soviet memorial depicting Kotikov's daughter, who was born in 1945

From 1946 Kotikow was chief of the garrison and commander of the Soviet sector in Berlin. He had been chosen for this position by Marshal Zhukov . On his initiative, a hot lunch was introduced for workers and employees of the main branches of industry, municipal services and transport and was known as the “Kotikow meal” or the “Kotikow plate”. With the other Allied city commanders, he agreed to the orders for the first free elections within Berlin after the Second World War. From April 1, 1946 to November 10, 1949, he was in command of the Soviet sector in Berlin . From November 11, 1949 to June 7, 1950, representative of the Soviet Control Commission in Berlin. During the Berlin Airlift he was the direct opponent of US General Frank L. Howley . Kotikov had played the offender when another US officer, instead of General Howley, was attending a meeting of the Allied Command Department and gave this as the reason for the future absence of Soviet participants at meetings of the Command Department. This happened on June 16, 1948. In May 1949 he took part in the inauguration of the Soviet memorial in Berlin-Treptow with Otto Grotewohl . The model for the girl depicted on this memorial was his youngest daughter Svetlana (1945–1996), who later became an actress in Moscow .

After his time in Berlin, General Kotikow was with the Soviet Air Force . In 1955 he retired after a serious illness. In his spare time he enjoyed collecting insects.

Orders and awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Alexander Kotikov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elena Kotikowa in response to the article by Marina Nikitina: The commandant of Berlin. (Марина Никитина: Комендант Берлина) In: Rossijskaja Gazeta No. 4060, May 5, 2006, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Хроника Великой войны: 1939–1945 (Chronicle of the Great War: 1939–1945)
  3. ↑ Alexander Kotikow in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ Kotikow, Alexander Georgewitsch. In: Who was who in the GDR? , Ute Böhme: The expropriation of large companies and the development of a socialist planned economy in the Soviet occupation zone from 1945 to 1949 using the example of Siemens. Dissertation from the Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. April 2006. p. 311.
  5. ↑ Charles Arnot: Soviets Intend to Keep Nazi Machine Dead. In: Spartanburg Herald Journal. December 28, 1945, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Wolf Oschlies: Russia: Medwedjew straps the "time belt" tighter. In: Eurasian magazine. Edition 12-09, December 4, 2009. ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurasischesmagazin.de
  7. ↑ Gunnar Berg: 'Vivat, crescat, floreat in aeternum!': Sixty years of post-war university in Halle. In: Scientia Hallensis: University magazine of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . (PDF file; 1.21 MB) 1/06, p. 14.
  8. ^ Marina Nikitina: The commandant of Berlin. (Марина Никитина: Комендант Берлина. ) In: Rossijskaja Gazeta. No. 4060, May 1, 2006, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Justice for the Working People. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 5, 1947, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Died - Alexander Kotikow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1981, pp. 156 ( online ).
  11. ^ List of honorary citizens of Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Kotikow, Alexander Georgievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Котиков, Александр Георгиевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet general
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakino , Tula Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1981
Place of death Moscow