Andrei Lavrentievich Getman

Andrei Lawrentjewitsch Getman (Russian: Андрей Лаврентьевич Гетман, born September 22 ^{. Jul} / 5. October 1903 ^{. Greg} in the village Klepaly, Sumy , † 8 April 1987 in Moscow ) was a Soviet army general (13 April 1964) and Hero the Soviet Union .

Life

Andrei Getman came from a Ukrainian farming family and completed 3 classes at a rural school, after which he worked as a helper in a sugar factory and at a train station.

Early military career

In October 1924 he was drafted into the Red Army . In 1927 he graduated from a Red Army cadre school, after which he served in various staff positions. In 1927 he graduated from the commanders school of the Red Army after which he was a platoon leader in the 130th Rifle Regiment of the 44th Rifle Division in September. In September 1927 he commanded a company in the 44th Rifle Division, the following year a battalion in the same division. Since May 1929 he was deputy chief of the operations department in the staff of the 44th Rifle Division. From 1930 he acted as a course instructor at the Tscherwen military school . Then he was political commissar of the home battalion of the Zhitomir garrison . From February 1933 he studied at the Military Academy for Mechanization and Motorization, was promoted to first lieutenant in 1935 and graduated in 1937 from the Military Academy for Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army, which he graduated with the rank of captain. In June 1937 he became chief of the 5th division in the staff of the 7th Mechanized Corps in the military district of Leningrad . In February 1938 he was promoted to major and deputy chief of staff of the 31st Mechanized Brigade. In May 1938 he was appointed Chief of Staff of this brigade and in August 1938 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade in the Far East Military District. In this position he took part in the fighting against the Japanese at Lake Chassan in August 1938 . As chief of staff of the 31st Mechanized Brigade, he was also involved in the fighting on Chalchin Gol in 1939 . In September 1939 he became deputy commander of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade and on October 8, 1940 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Then in November 1940 he was given the command of the independent 45th Panzer Brigade, and on December 9th he was promoted to colonel . The next command of the 27th Panzer Division was transferred to him on March 11, 1941, and on March 26 he moved to the position of Chief of Staff of the 30th Mechanized Corps.

In the Patriotic War

In September 1941 he was appointed commander of the 112th Panzer Division, transferred from Transbaikalia to Europe, to intervene in the Battle of Moscow . Initially deployed at Serpuchow as part of the 49th Army , Getmann's Panzer Division was assigned to support General PA Below's army and proved its worth in the defense of Kaschira . During the Battle of Tula , the 112th Panzer Division fought against the German Panzer Group 2 . During the Soviet counterattack, Getmann's armored forces along with other units liberated Tula . Together with the 999th Rifle Regiment of the 258th Rifle Division, the Rewjakino station on the Tula taxiway to Moscow was occupied on December 7th. On December 8, the division was officially transferred to the 50th Army and helped liberate Yasnaya Polyana . Parts of the mobile group were transferred to the 50th Army under General Popov , together with the 154th Rifle Divisions, 31st Cavalry Divisions and the Tula Workers Regiment, the town of Kaluga was recaptured on December 30th .

Getman was appointed commander of the 6th Panzer Corps in April 1942 and promoted to major general of the armored forces on May 30th . During the summer of 1942 Getmann's troops fought in the Battle of Rzhev and were deployed in the 20th Army sector in the unsuccessful Operation Mars in December . Getmann also led his corps in July 1943 during the Battle of Kursk and was promoted to Lieutenant General on August 21 . His 6th Panzer Corps took part in several battles on the West, Northwest and Voronezh Fronts and was renamed the 11th Guard Panzer Corps in November 1943 for outstanding achievements. In the first half of 1944, his Guard Panzer Corps fought in the operations of Zhitomir-Berditschew , Korsun-Shevchenkovsk , Proskurow-Chernivtsi and Lemberg-Sandomier . On August 25, 1944, he handed over the 11th Guards Panzer Corps to Colonel Babadschanjan and was appointed deputy commander of the 1st Guards Armored Army under General Katukov and participated in the 1st Belarusian Front in the Vistula-Oder operation at the beginning of 1945 in the complete liberation of Poland and in April 1945 in the Berlin operation that ended the war .

post war period

After the war, he commanded the mechanized armies of the Urals Military District and the Transcaucasus Military District. From 1949 to 1956 he served as chief of staff and deputy commander of the mechanized troops and was promoted to colonel general on August 3, 1953 . In April 1956 he was appointed commander of the Special Mechanized Army, which was actively involved in the suppression of the Hungarian Uprising and was renamed the 1st Special Combined Army in June 1957. From June 1957 he commanded the 1st Army and from April 1958 to 1964 the troops of the Carpathian Military District . On April 13, 1964 he was promoted to Army General and on May 7, 1965, on the 20th anniversary of the end of World War II, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin . He was elected as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR at the 5th to 8th assemblies of the CPSU and was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1961 to 1976 . In 1966 he received the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Tula". Since January 1972 he served as a military advisor in the group of inspectors general in the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. He died on April 8, 1987 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

From his marriage to Olga Ivanovna (1908–1972), who worked as a doctor, the children Anatoli (1938–1967) Elvin (1932–1996) came from.

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SURNAME	Getman, Andrei Lavrentievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Гетман, Андрей Лаврентьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet army general
DATE OF BIRTH	October 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klepaly village, Sumy Oblast
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1987
Place of death	Moscow , Soviet Union