Nikolai Ivanovich Trufanov

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Nikolai Ivanovich Trufanow ( Russian Николай Иванович Труфанов , scientific. Transliteration Nikolai Ivanovich Trufanov ; born May 2 . Jul / 15. May  1900 greg. In Welikoje , government Yaroslavl ; † 12. February 1982 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet Colonel General and the first Soviet military commander in the city of Leipzig after World War II .

Life

Trufanov joined the Red Army when he was 19 . He studied until 1925 at the command school of the Red Army, named after the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ВЦИК , in the administrative building of the Moscow Kremlin . In 1932 he joined the CPSU . Until 1939 Trufanov studied at the military academy of the Red Workers and Peasants Army "MW Frunze" in Moscow . In the winter war of 1939/40 he was Chief of Staff of the 4th Rifle Division. In May 1942 he was appointed commander of the 51st Army and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad and in the winter of 1943 in Operation Don . In March 1945 he became the commander of the 25th Infantry Corps of the 2nd Ukrainian and 1st Belarusian fronts and fought in the Battle of Berlin .

From 1950 Trufanow worked as a military instructor in the Far East . In 1955 he was promoted to colonel general . In 1956 Trufanov became an important military advisor to the Defense Minister of the People's Republic of China . In 1960 he was retired.

Military Commander of Leipzig

After the city of Leipzig had been under US occupation law from April 19 to July 1, 1945, then Lieutenant General Trufanov was appointed military commander of Marshal Zhukov , chairman of the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) , on July 10, 1945 City of Leipzig appointed. One of his first decisions was the removal of the Lord Mayor Wilhelm Johannes Vierling , appointed by the American occupation authorities, with effect from July 16, 1945, and the appointment of the Social Democrat Erich Zeigner as Lord Mayor and the Communist Kurt Roßberg as his deputy.

As early as July 14, 1945, Trufanow ordered the establishment of a city ​​radio in Leipzig. He played a decisive role in setting up the administrative bodies, securing the supply of the population with food, resuming production in the factories and enforcing further decisions of the SMAD.

Trufanow also operated the reopening of Leipzig University . Just a few days after his arrival in Leipzig, he had met with Rector Theodor Frings . He did not want to carry out the political cleansing of the university too rigorously and not too schematically, as otherwise teaching would be very difficult. However, the leadership of SMAD later pushed through a full faculty review, which resulted in the dismissal of a large number of professors.

Trufanow held his office until November 15, 1945, when he was recalled to Dresden . His successor in Leipzig was Colonel Borissow.

Honors

In recognition of his work in Leipzig, Trufanow was given honorary citizenship of Leipzig on May 7, 1975 on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the liberation and his 75th birthday .

On the 40th anniversary of the liberation on May 6, 1985 in the Leipzig district of Zentrum-Nord, Montbéstrasse (named after Alban von Montbé), which had been laid out in 1902 on a parade ground in front of Gohlis , was renamed Kommandant-Trufanow-Strasse. Since the name “Kommandant” was historically not justified, the street name was changed to Trufanowstraße in 1999.

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 605 f.
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Trufanov: On the post of the military commander of the trade fair city. In: Leipzig. From the past and the present. Contributions to the history of the city. H. 1. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1981, pp. 79-105, ISSN  0232-1661

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga A. Welsh: Denazification and reopening of the University of Leipzig 1945–1946. A report by the then Rector Professor Bernhard Schweitzer. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , Volume 33 (1985), H. 2 (PDF; 9.2 MB), pp. 339–372 (343)
  2. ↑ Liselotte Borusiak, Gertrud Höhnel: Chronicle of the City of Leipzig 1945–1949. Part 1 1945–1946. Leipzig City Archives, Leipzig 1971, p. 96
  3. ↑ According to other sources, Borisov took over the post of military commander in late October 1945. See Helga A. Welsh: Denazification and reopening of the University of Leipzig 1945–1946. A report by the then Rector Professor Bernhard Schweitzer. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , Volume 33, pp. 339–372 (370)
  4. ↑ Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 126
  5. ↑ City of Leipzig: Official announcement on the resolution of the council meeting no. RBII-1674/99 of July 14, 1999. In: Leipzig Official Journal , no. 16 of July 31, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Trufanow, Nikolai Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trufanov, Nikolaî Ivanovič; Труфанов, Николай Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet general, military commander of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Velikoye , Yaroslavl Governorate
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1982
Place of death Kharkiv