Dmitri Grigoryevich Pavlov
Dmitry Pavlov ( Russian Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов , scientific. Transliteration Dmitrij Grigor'evic Pavlov ; October 23 * . Jul / 4. November 1897 greg. , † 22. July 1941 ) was a Soviet army general and senior supreme sacrifice of Stalin's execution wave in the Result of the catastrophic defeats the Red Army suffered during the German invasion of the Soviet Union .
Life
Pavlov joined the Russian Communist Party and the Red Army in 1919 , with which he took part in the Russian Civil War . In 1928 he graduated from the "MW Frunze" military academy and later belonged to the Soviet military advisors in the Spanish Civil War , where he was honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union . Afterwards he was inspector general of the armored forces during the Finnish Winter War and the border conflicts with Japan , where he came to the conclusion during the fighting for the Finnish Mannerheim Line that tanks should play a subordinate role to the infantry. As one of the Red Army's best specialists for mechanized formations, in his lecture "Use of mechanizing formations in modern attack operations", he proved in a conclusive statement that the armored and mechanized corps is very mobile, has great penetrating power and can withstand artillery fire and the Luftwaffe is less sensitive than other branches of service. In 1940 he was appointed commander of the Special Western Military District, which became part of the Western Front after the German attack on June 22, 1941 . On February 22, 1941, he was one of the first Soviet officers to receive the newly created rank of Army General .
After the devastating defeat of the troops subordinate to him in the Battle of the Białystok and Minsk , he was recalled, ordered by Stalin to Moscow on June 30th and by the Decree of the State Defense Committee of July 16, 1941 there on July 22nd - together with Generals Klimowskich , Grigoryev, Korobkow , Kosobucky, Selichow, Galaktionow and the regimental commissars Kurotschkin and Jelisejew - brought before a court martial and illegally shot for treason . On July 31, 1957, the military college of the highest court of the Soviet Union fully rehabilitated Pavlov. On November 25, 1965, the title Hero of the Soviet Union and other awards were returned to him. It was only in the Gorbachev era that it was declared that Pavlov was not the main culprit for the defeat and that the orders given to him could not have been carried out by anyone.
Web links
- Article Dmitri Grigoryevich Pavlov in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Pavlov, Dmitri Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pavlov, Dimitri Grigoryevich; Павлов, Дмитрий Григорьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet army general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1941 |