Boris Mironowitsch Feldman
Boris Mironowitsch Feldman ( Russian Борис Миронович Фельдман ; * January 1890 in Pinsk in the Minsk Governorate ; † June 12, 1937 in Moscow ) was a Soviet officer in the rank of Corps Commander (Komkor) and member of the Communist Party of Russia ( Bolsheviks. ) Since 1919 was convicted in the fourth Moscow trial (the " Tukhachevsky case ") and shot on June 12, 1937. His rehabilitation took place posthumously on January 31, 1957.
biography
Feldman was born in 1890 to a Jewish carpenter. In his youth he took part in revolutionary actions and was arrested several times. In the Russian Civil War he was the staff secretary of the Brjansk region from 1918 to 1922 . After the civil war he was in command of the 17th rifle corps from 1922 to 1925 and of the 19th rifle corps from 1925 to 1928. Feldman was Chief of Staff of the Leningrad Military District from 1928 to 1934 and a member of the Defense Council of the USSR and served in the administration of the Red Army from 1934 to 1937 . In 1935 he was awarded the rank of corps commander. In 1937, Feldman assumed the post of Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District.
In May 1937, Feldman was dismissed from office, expelled from the Communist Party, and arrested. He was shot together with Mikhail Tukhachevsky , Iona Jakir and other officers on June 12, 1937 in the basement of the Supreme Military Court of the USSR. This was the beginning of the bloody purges within the Red Army.
In 1957, after Stalin's death and the XX. At the CPSU party congress , Feldman, as well as Tukhachevsky and numerous other officers, were fully rehabilitated.
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| SURNAME | Feldman, Boris Mironowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фельдман, Борис Миронович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet Red Army officer and victim of the Great Purge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pinsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow |