Evgen Gwaladze

Evgen (Geno) Gwaladze ( Georgian ევგენ (გენო) ღვალაძე ; * May 13, 1900 in Sweri near Chiatura , today Georgia ; † October 15, 1937 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian resistance fighter . The social democrat was the leader of the illegal Georgian arm of the emigre organization Tetri Giorgi (German: White George ) and took part in the August uprising in Georgia in 1924.

Life

He was born the son of a retired officer in the Russian cavalry . As a schoolboy he published political articles in magazines in 1916. In 1917 he joined the Menshevik Social Democratic Party of Georgia . In 1920 he finished high school in Tbilisi.

In the same year he became an officer in the newly formed army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . In February 1921 he fought in the Kodschori valley and in Tabachmela against the invasion of the 11th Army of the Red Workers and Peasants Army (RABA) , at the end of March against the advance of Turkey on Batumi .

After the disintegration of the Georgian army, he studied law at the Tbilisi State University , which he graduated in 1926. He became a lawyer and board member of the Association of Defense Lawyers . From 1935 to 1937 he lectured at the Pedagogical Institute in Gori .

From 1921 he took part in the activities of the underground Georgian liberation movement. On May 26, 1922 he was one of the organizers of the first large anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi with Konstantine Gamsachurdia . He was arrested by the Cheka and released in July. From 1922 to 1924 he was the representative of the non-partisan committee for the restoration of the independence of Georgia (Georgian Sakartvelos Damoukideblobis Komiteti - Damkom ) in the Kakheti region . He took an active part in the August uprising in Georgia organized by the committee . He was arrested again by the Cheka on August 30, 1924, and was not released until March 1925.

In 1926 he became the leader of the illegal Georgian arm of the emigrant organization Tetri Giorgi (German White George ). In August 1937, he and other members of Tetri Giorgi were arrested for the third time by the Soviet secret police . He was sentenced to death for anti-Soviet activities and shot dead in Tbilisi on October 15 .