Oleksandr Hrekov
Oleksandr Petrowytsch Hrekow ( Ukrainian Олександр Петрович Греков / Russian Александр Петрович Греков Alexander Petrovich Grekov * November 21 jul. / 3. December 1875 greg. In Sopytsch , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 2. December 1958 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Ukrainian general. He was Minister of Military Affairs of the Ukrainian State from April 29, 1917 to May 3, 1918 and of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January 9, 1919 to February 14, 1919 .
Life
Oleksandr Hrekow joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1899 and graduated from the General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg by 1905 . During World War I he commanded various units of the Russian army and was promoted to major general of the Russian army in October 1917.
Hrekov was Chief of Staff of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from November 1918 and from June 9 to July 5, 1919 he was commander in chief of the Ukrainian-Galician army in the Chortkiv offensive in the Polish-Ukrainian war .
In July 1919 he emigrated with his family to Romania and in May 1920 to Vienna, where he was arrested by SMERSch on August 30, 1948 , taken to Lukjaniwska prison in Kiev and in July 1949 for “membership in an anti-Soviet organization” and “active anti-Soviet activity “ Was sentenced to 25 years in a prison camp and deported to Eastern Siberia. He was pardoned in August 1956 and returned to Vienna on December 23, 1956, where he died in 1958 and was buried in a cemetery in St. Andrä-Wölker . He had been an Austrian citizen since 1946. On July 27, 1989, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Honors
- 1908 Order of St. Stanislav 3rd class
- 1911 Order of Saint Anne
- 1913 Order of St. Stanislav 2nd class
- 1916 Order of St. George 4th class
Web links
- The memory of Minister of War Oleksandr Hrekov , biography (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Hrekov, Oleksander in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 11, 2016
- ↑ a b c d e f Biography Oleksandr Hrekow on the website of the Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria; accessed on December 11, 2016
- ↑ Biography Oleksandr Hrekow on ukrainians-world.org , accessed on December 11, 2016 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Hrekow, Oleksandr |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hrekiw Oleksandr Petrovytsch (full name); Греков, Олександр Петрович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sopytsch , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1958 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |