Georgi Erichowitsch Langemak

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Georgi Erichowitsch Langemak

Georgy Langemak ( Russian Георгий Эрихович Лангемак * July 9 jul. / 21st July  1898 greg. In Starobelsk , Russian Empire ; † 11. January 1938 in Moscow , USSR) was a Soviet engineer and senior military engineer (1st-Level ).

Life

Georgi Langemak's father was Erich Langemak from Germany, a student at Berlin University , and his mother Maria was Swiss. Both had taken citizenship of the Russian Empire and were serving in the Ministry of Education. The father gained the title of State Commissioner. He received the Order of St. Stanislaus (2nd degree). Erich died in 1905. Georgi Langemak spoke German and French as well as Russian.

Langemak graduated from the Technical Military Academy F. E. Dzerzhinsky in 1928. In 1919 he joined the Red Army, where he served in the coastal artillery . In 1934 he was promoted to chief engineer and deputy manager of the People's Commissariat of Defense Industry of the USSR. Georgi Langemak is considered one of the leading creators of the legendary Katyusha multiple rocket launcher - also known as the Stalin organ - which was used by the Soviet Union during World War II .

Langemak was arrested on November 2, 1937. The reason for this was that the engineer had spied on colleagues. On November 14, 1937, Georgi Langemak submitted a letter to N. I. Yezhov - the then head of the Soviet secret police of the NKVD - in which he stated that he did not see his guilt and that the engineers S. P. Korolev , I. T. Kleimjonow and W. P. Glushko with anti-Soviet Organizations would cooperate. Finally, on January 11, 1938, he was sentenced to death by shooting.

In 1955 Georgi Langemak was rehabilitated and officially named the father of Katyusha (Russian отец Катюши). In 1991 he was posthumously honored as a hero of socialist work .

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