Alexei Yevgenyevich Gutor

Alexei Gutor

Alexei Jewgenjewitsch Gutor (born August 30, ^jul. / 11. September  1868 ^greg. In Voronezh ; † 13. August 1938 in Moscow ) was an Imperial Russian officer, last lieutenant general , who as a high commander in the First World War served and then the construction of the Red Army was involved.

Life

Gutor was born as the son of General Yevgeny Simonowitsch Gutor into a noble family and educated in a cadet corps in Moscow until 1886 . He graduated from the Michael Artillery School in Saint Petersburg in 1889 and then joined the 3rd Life Guard Artillery Brigade as a Podporutschik . In 1895 he finished his training at the Nicholas Academy of the General Staff and was assigned to the Moscow Military District as a staff captain . From 1897 to 1900 he served on the staff of the Grenadier Corps. He then taught military science at a Moscow military school. This was followed by assignments as a staff officer at the XII. Army Corps and at the headquarters of the Kiev Military District. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/05 he took part as Chief of Staff of the 9th Rifle Division and was wounded. As a colonel , he then took over the 121st Penza rifle regiment until 1910. This was followed by promotion to major general and appointment as commander of the Moscow Bodyguard Regiment.

In the spring of 1913 Gutor became head of the staff of the Kazan Military District, from whose staff the High Command of the 4th Army emerged during the mobilization in 1914 . He served in the post of Chief of Staff under Anton von Saltza and Alexei Ewert until April 1915, when he received command of the 34th Rifle Division. At the turn of the year 1914/15 he was promoted to lieutenant general. In March 1916 he took over the VI. Army corps that was used as part of the 11th Army on the Southwest Front, including the Brusilov offensive of 1916. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he was initially given command of the 11th Army, and after a month he was given command of the entire Southwest Front. After the failure of the Kerensky offensive in July 1917, he was replaced by Lavr Kornilov and made available to the high command, later transferred to the reserve.

In August 1918, during the Civil War , he submitted himself to the Red Army. He was appointed chairman of the Statute Commission, conducted military science courses and advised the high command of all armed forces of the republic. In the summer of 1920 he was transferred to the High Command in Siberia as an advisor, but after a short time he was arrested in Omsk on charges of counterrevolutionary activity and taken to Moscow's Butyrka prison. His case was declared closed by the GPU Presidium for lack of evidence in November 1922 and Gutor was released from custody. He then became a professor of strategy and tactics at the Military Academy of the Red Army. He was discharged from service in January 1931 and died seven years later in Moscow at the age of 69.

literature

• К. А. Залесский: Кто был кто в Первой мировой войне. АСТ, 2003, pp. 184-185.

Web links

• Career data on grwar.ru (russ.)