Pavel Fyodorowitsch Batitski

Batizki

Pavel Batitsky ( Russian Павел Фёдорович Батицкий , born June 14 ^{. Jul} / 27. June  1910 ^greg. In Kharkov ; † 17th February 1984 in Moscow ) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union .

Life

Batizki was the son of a worker. In 1922 he finished middle school and then went to the Kharkov engineering factory "Sichel und Hammer" to do an apprenticeship. From 1924 to 1927 he attended preparatory courses at the Ukrainian Military School as an officer student and finished the cavalry school in 1929 . From March 1929 to May 1935 he served in the cavalry, commanding a platoon and squadron in the Belarusian military district. In 1938 he finished the military academy "MW Frunze" with distinction, was assigned to an operational department of the General Staff of the Red Army as an officer for special operations and in the same year became a member of the CPSU . From September 1939 to December 1940 Batizki was commanded to China , where he was the head of a group of Soviet military personnel on Chiang Kai-shek's staff . On his return Batizki was deployed as chief of staff of a motorized brigade within the Baltic Military District in Kaunas and in March 1941 as the commander of the 202nd Motorized Division of this military district.

Second World War

During the German-Soviet War Batitski was from November 1941 in command of the 254th Rifle Division, which was deployed on the northwestern front in the Demyansk Kesselschlacht . From July 1943 he commanded the 73rd, 50th and 128th Rifle Corps on the Voronezh Front , the Steppe Front , the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts and the 1st and 3rd Belarusian Fronts . He took part in the liberation of Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus and organized the fighting of the subordinate forces in the Battle of the Dnieper near Kaniw and the capture of a bridgehead on the right bank of the river. Under his leadership, the 73rd Rifle Corps crossed the Dnepr in November – December 1943, also near the city of Cherkassy , which was liberated on December 14, 1943. By resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on September 25, 1943, Colonel Batitsky was promoted to major general. The 73rd Rifle Corps under the command of Batitskis also played an important role in the Dnepr-Carpathian operation and in January-February 1944 in the liberation of the cities of Uman and Bălți . In Operation Bagration , he played a decisive role in the smashing of the German defense south of Bobruisk and the liberation of Baranowitschi and Brest . In the further course of the war he fought as commander of the 128th Rifle Corps in the 28th Army in Poland and East Prussia and was a participant in the Battle of Berlin and the Prague Operation at the end of the war . 

post war period

After the war, Batitsky graduated from the Higher Military Academy of the Red Army in 1948 and was Chief of Staff of Air Defense of the Moscow Military District until 1950 . By decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on May 11, 1949, he was promoted to lieutenant general. From 1950 to 1953 he was Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander in Chief of the Air Force and from 1953 to 1954 1st Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District. In this position, on June 26, 1953, together with Moskalenko and Zhukov, he took part in the arrest of Interior Minister Beria at the meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. On December 23, 1953, Beria was sentenced to death by shooting. The execution of the sentence on the same day was the Moscow Military District from now on in the bunker of Staff Colonel General monitored transported Batizki. In June 2010, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Vadim Volkovitsky , confirmed that Beria was executed on December 23, 1953 and that Batitsky personally carried out the sentence.

From 1954 to 1965, Batitsky commanded the mechanized army and the Moscow Air Defense Forces. From 1965 to 1966 he was the 1st Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces. On May 5, 1961, Batitski was awarded the highest military rank of Army General by decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR . The Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to him on May 7, 1965 for “special leadership qualities, personal courage in the fight against the German invaders”, combined with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the “Golden Star” medal . From 1966 he became the commander in chief of the air defense of the country (PWO) , deputy of the defense minister of the USSR, at the same time deputy of the commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact . In the same year he also became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU . On April 15, 1968 Batitsky was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union by decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . From 1978 he was part of the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.

Batitski lived in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery after his death .

Awards

• Hero of the Soviet Union (May 7, 1965)
• Order of Lenin (5 ×: February 22, 1944, April 20, 1953, June 27, 1960, May 7, 1965, February 21, 1978)
• Order of the October Revolution (June 26, 1970)
• Order of the Red Banner (5 ×: May 1942, November 3, 1944, January 1951, February 1954, February 22, 1968)
• Order of Kutuzov 1st class (May 1945)
• Suworoworden 2nd class (July 23, 1944)
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd class (March 1945)
• Order "For Service at Home in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd class (April 30, 1975)
• Honor saber with the gold national coat of arms of the USSR (February 22, 1968)
• Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR (1970)
• 15 other medals from the USSR
• 16 orders and medals from other countries

Web links

Commons : Pawel Fjodorowitsch Batizki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Heroes of the Country: Pawel Fjodorowitsch Batizki (Russian), accessed May 16, 2010
2. ↑ Pawel Fjodorowitsch Batizki on hrono.ru, accessed May 16, 2010 (Russian)
3. ↑ http://www.newsru.com/russia/24jun2010/beria.html
4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , July 31, 1970, p. 2