Michail Dmitrijewitsch Bonsch-Brujewitsch
Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich ( Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич * February 24 . Jul / 8. March 1870 greg. In Moscow , † 3. August 1956 ) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army .
Life
Michail Dmitrijewitsch Bonsch-Brujewitsch was the son of a topographer; his brother Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonsch-Brujewitsch was a well-known Bolshevik , former journalist and, after the October Revolution, executive secretary of the Council of People's Commissars .
After finishing school, Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Bontsch-Brujewitsch studied at the Constantinian Surveying Institute and at a Moscow university .
After completing a junior school, he entered service in the Litovsk bodyguard regiment of the Russian army in Warsaw from 1892 to 1895 . He then began studying at the General Staff Academy, which he finished in 1898.
From 1898 to 1914 Bonsch-Brujewitsch held various positions at the General Staff Academy and in higher staffs. In April 1914 he became the commander of the 176th Perevolotsch Regiment in Chernigov , and after Russia entered the First World War in August 1914, Quartermaster General (head of the operational department = today's NATO designation G3) in the staff of the 3rd Army under General Nikolai Russky . From September 1914 he was general quartermaster in the staff of the Northwest Front under General Russky.
In April 1915 Bonsch-Brujewitsch became Chief of Staff of the 6th Army, first under General van der Flit and then again under General Russky. At the end of 1915 he was employed as Chief of Staff of the Northern Front under General Russky and General Plehwe . In February 1916 he became an officer at the special disposal of the Supreme Commander, in February 1917 garrison chief in Pskov .
On August 29, 1917 he was used by Kerensky as Commander in Chief of the Northern Front, where he contributed to the suppression of the Kornilov putsch. From mid-September 1917 he was at the disposal of the headquarters of the Commander- in- Chief in Mogilev . On September 27, he became a member of the Mogilev Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies, and from mid-October Michail Dmitrijewitsch Bonch-Brujewitsch was garrison chief in Mogilev.
From late November 1917 to late January 1918 he was the first Soviet chief of staff at headquarters . Under the chairmanship of Trotsky , from March 4, 1918 to August 27, 1918, he was the military leader of the Supreme War Council of the Red Army .
After the end of the First World War Bontsch-Brujewitsch worked until June 1919 as a lecturer at the Institute for Geodesy and as director of an insurance company.
From June 16, 1919 until the end of 1919, he was chief of the field staff of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic during the Russian Civil War . Until his retirement, Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Bontsch-Brujewitsch was head of the College of the Supreme Administration for geodesy and the fulfillment of individual military tasks .
swell
- Mikhail D. Bonch-Brujewitsch: Petrograd. Memories of a general. Translated from the Russian by Günter Stein. 3. Edition. Untitled military historical memoir series published by the military publishing house. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1977.
- М. Д. Бонч-Бруевич: Вся власть Советам! Воениздат, Moscow 1958.
Web links
- Article Michail Dmitrijewitsch Bontsch-Brujewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Bonsch-Brujewitsch, Michail Dmitrijewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бонч-Бруевич, Михаил Дмитриевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lieutenant General during the Russian Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1956 |
| Place of death | Moscow |