Yevgeny Petrovich Schmidt-Otschakowski

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Yevgeny Petrovich Schmidt-Otschakowski ( Russian Евгений Петрович Шмидт-Очаковский * February 28 . Jul / 12. March  1889 greg. In Kiev ; † 28. December 1951 in Paris ) was a Russian officer .

Life

As the son of the naval officer Pyotr Petrowitsch Schmidt , Yevgeny Schmidt grew up in his father's respective places of employment: St. Petersburg , Nagasaki , Odessa and Sevastopol . He attended the St. Paul Realschule in Odessa and the Konstantin Realschule in Sevastopol. Early on he turned to revolutionary ideas.

Armored cruiser Ochakov (named after the Turkish fortress of Ochakov , which was besieged and captured by a Russian army in 1788)

When sailors of the Black Sea Fleet mutinied during the Russian Revolution in 1905 , Schmidt went independently on board the armored cruiser Ochakov , where on November 14th July. / November 27, 1905 greg. his father became the leader of the rebel sailors. When the uprising was suppressed on the following day by units loyal to the Tsar under the command of the Rostislav ship of the line and the Ochakov began to sink, he jumped overboard like his father. Swimming they reached a torpedo boat and were captured. After 40 days of detention, he was released as a youth, while his father was later sentenced to death.  

Schmidt studied at the St. Petersburg Technology Institute (1908-1912), which he left as a praporschtschik of the engineering team . He applied to be allowed to add the addition of Otschakowski to his family name in order to Russify his originally German family. In 1917 he came to Sevastopol as a pioneer - Podporutschik and took part in the solemn transfer of the remains of his father to the Pokrovsky Cathedral Square. By decision of the Vice-Admiral Kolchak he received the name extension Ochakovsky .

During the Russian Civil War he fought on the side of the whites and most recently in the army of General Wrangel in the Crimea . In 1921 he came to Gallipoli as part of the evacuation with Wrangel's White Fleet , where he was one of the first hundred of the Gallipolians , an organization formed on November 22, 1921 of soldiers of the 1st Army Corps of the disbanded Wrangel Army.

Schmidt-Otschakowski came to Prague , where he now graduated from the Technical University . He was active in the Prague Society of Gallipoli and in the Association of Russians who had studied in Czechoslovakia . In 1930 he emigrated to France . He died impoverished in Paris .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Валерий Ярхо: О Лейтенанте Шмидте и его “детях” (accessed November 26, 2016).
  2. ↑ a b c И о самом Шмидте (accessed November 26, 2016).
  3. ↑ György Dalos: History of the Russian Germans: From Catherine the Great to the Present . CH Beck, 2016. (in the Appendix, Note 1 of the chapter Germans in the Baptism of Fire )
  4. ↑ a b Валерий Ярхо: Лейтенант Шмидт и его дети (accessed November 26, 2016).
  5. ↑ Лейтенант Шмидт и его дети (accessed November 26, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Otschakowski, Jewgeni Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шмидт-Очаковский, Евгений Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1951
Place of death Paris