Dmitri Arkadjewitsch Schmidt

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Dmitri Arkadievich Schmidt , actually David Aronowitsch Gutman ( Russian Дмитрий Аркадьевич Шмидт, Давид Аронович Гутман ) (born December 7 . Jul / 19th December  1896 greg. In Priluki , Poltava Governorate ; † 20th June 1937 in Moscow ) was a division commander of the Red Army .

Life

Until the outbreak of war , Dmitri Schmidt worked as a locksmith and projectionist. Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1914, he became an ensign in 1916 . In 1917 Dmitri Schmidt joined the RSDLP (B) . Until the autumn of 1918 he fought for the Bolsheviks in his home district of Priluki , but from the summer of 1918 he had to go underground because of the results of the peace in Brest-Litovsk . In the autumn of 1918 Dmitri Schmidt joined the Red Army and, after a year of service during the Russian Civil War , made it to the command of an infantry division. So the colonel had a share in the victory over the whites in the battle of Tsaritsyn . Then Dmitri Schmidt commanded units of the Red Army near Cherson and from the spring of 1921 commanded the 17th Cavalry Division of the Red Cossacks . After the civil war, the colonel became deputy chief of staff of the North Caucasian military district. In 1933 Dmitri Schmidt graduated from the military academy . 1934-1937 he commanded first the 2nd Ukrainian Tank Brigade and then the 8th Ukrainian Tank Brigade.

On July 5, 1936, Dmitri Schmidt was arrested by the NKVD and taken to Moscow. During the trial, which lasted for months, he revoked, among other things, his "confessions" on the grounds that they had been extorted under torture . On July 19, 1937, he was sentenced to death by the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the USSR and executed the following day.

On July 6, 1957 - during the Khrushchev thaw - Colonel Dmitri Schmidt was posthumously rehabilitated by the same military court.

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  1. The novel City of Fear by Anatoly Rybakov is a narrative analysis of the Stalinist purges . In addition to invented figures, the author mentions real names when he reflects on Stalin's trains of thought - for example, detailed considerations of the military court trial in June 1937 against generals and Colonel Schmidt: “ Tukhachevsky - Jakir - Uborewitsch were in cahoots ... Among them [are meant leading military of the Red Army] only three former opposition members could be found: Corps commanders Primakow and Putna and division commander Schmidt ... "(Rybakow, p. 295, 3rd Zvu to p. 296, 6th Zvo)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Russian battle of Tsaritsyn
  2. ^ Russian 17th Cavalry Division of the Red Army
  3. Russian 2nd Tank Brigade and 8th Tank Brigade of the Red Army
  4. . Russ see 13th paragraph in: November 2002: Jewish observers (Еврейский обозреватель): Ster Jelissawetski Sergei Kokin (Стер Елисаветский, Сергей Кокин): winner of the St. George's Cross, red division commander - a victim of the "Great Terror" ( Георгиевский кавалер, красный комдив, жертва "большого террора")