Michail Konstantinowitsch Diterichs

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Michail Diterichs (1918)

Mikhail Diterikhs ( Russian Михаил Константинович Дитерихс ; born 5 April jul. / 17th April  1874 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 9. October 1937 in Shanghai ) one was General of the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War and the White Army in the Russian Civil war .

Life

Diterichs was born the son of an officer of German Bohemian descent. After training in the page corps and at the General Staff Academy, he served in the Moscow military district from 1900 onwards. In 1903 he became the commander of a squadron of the 3rd Dragoon Regiment. In the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. After further assignments in the Moscow and Kiev military districts, he was appointed as a colonel head of the General Staff's mobilization department in 1913.

First World War

After the beginning of the First World War he became Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army on the Southwest Front and in early 1915 Quartermaster General of this front. In December 1915 he was promoted to major general. In September 1916 he was appointed commander of the Russian expeditionary corps on the Saloniki Front, with which he fought against the Bulgarian army. After the February Revolution of 1917 he was ordered back to Russia and took over the post of Chief of Staff of the Special Petrograd Army. In August 1917 he was offered the post of Minister of War in the Provisional Government , which he refused. In September 1917 he was appointed Quartermaster General in the Russian High Command and on November 3 under Nikolai Duchonin he was appointed Chief of the General Staff.

Russian civil war

After the October Revolution and the dissolution of the headquarters, he fled to Kiev and later to the Urals, where he became Chief of Staff of the Czechoslovak Legions . In November 1918 he was commissioned by Admiral Kolchak to dissolve the Ufa board of directors. In January 1919 Kolchak appointed him head of the commission of inquiry into the murder of the tsarist family . From July 1919 he commanded Kolchak's Siberian army, with which he achieved some successes against the Red Army . After the defeat of the Siberian Army, he fled to Harbin , China, in December 1919 . In 1922 he became head of the army of the Amur Provisional Government and replaced Spiridon Merkulov as head of government. In Vladivostok he published the investigation report into the murder of the tsarist family. After the fall of Vladivostok in October 1922, he and the remnants of his army went to Wonsan , Korea, and emigrated from there to Shanghai. There he became involved in emigrant circles and in 1930 became chairman of the Far Eastern Department of the Union of All Russian Military Associations (ROWS) . In 1937 he died in Shanghai, where he is also buried.

Works

  • Убийство Царской Семьи и Членов Дома Романовых на Урале ("The Assassination of the Imperial Family and Members of the House of Romanov in the Urals"), 1922

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SURNAME Diterichs, Michail Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дитерихс, Михаил Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian general
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1937
Place of death Shanghai