Ivan Vasilyevich Boldin

Ivan Vasilyevich Boldin ( Russian Иван Васильевич Болдин , scientific transliteration. Ivan Vasiljevic Boldin * 3; ^jul. / 15. August  1892 ^greg. In Wyssozkaja in Insar , Penza province , Russian Empire , now Mordovia , Russia ; † 28. March 1965 in Kiev ) was the head of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) in Thuringia .

Life

Boldin served in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 . In 1918 he joined the Communist Party and had been a professional soldier in the Red Army since 1919 . He attended the Frunze Military Academy . In September 1939 he was involved in the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , his cavalry- mechanical group operated in the area of Wolkowysk and Nowogrodek . From the end of 1939 he was in command of the Odessa military district .

In the Patriotic War

At the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941) he acted as the deputy commander of the western military district . In the Grodno area he organized a first counterattack by the 10th Army against the advancing units of German Panzer Group 3 . His mechanical cavalry group included the 6th and 11th Mechanized Corps and the 6th Cavalry Corps. As commander of the 50th Army , he defended Tula against German Panzer Group 2 in October and November 1941 . Between 1942 and 1943 his troops were stationed in the Kirov area on the Western Front. In the summer of 1944 his troops took part in Operation Bagration , and he himself was promoted to Colonel General on July 15, 1944 . Whereas the second Belarusian Front used the 50th Army went to the advance via Bialystok in autumn 1944 in the space Augustow for trench warfare over. In February 1945, due to poor coordination of his army in the Battle of East Prussia, he was recalled as army leader at the instigation of the front commander Rokossowskis . From March to May 1945 he served as Deputy Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front under Marshal Tolbuchin during the Vienna operation .

From June 1946, Boldin was head of the SMAD in Thuringia , then from July 1946 to March 1951 commander of the 8th Guard Army . 1958 to 1965 he was a consultant at the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union . Boldin was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner .

literature

• Jan Foitzik:  Boldin, Iwan Wassilewitsch . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .