Sergei Michailowitsch Scheideman

Sergei Mikhailovich Scheideman (also: Scheidemann , Russian Сергей Михайлович Шейдеман ; born August 18 ^{. Jul} / 30th August  1857 ^{. Greg} , † 1922 ) was an Imperial Russian officer, since 1913 cavalry general , and army leaders in the First World War .

Life

Scheideman was educated at the military high school in Poltava and completed his training at the Michael Artillery School in Saint Petersburg in 1877 , whereupon he was assigned to a field artillery battery as Podporutschik . Later he joined the 3rd Guards Grenadier Artillery Brigade , with which he took part in the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78. In 1883 he completed the course at the Nicholas General Staff Academy as a staff captain and was assigned to the Kiev military district, where he became senior adjutant on the staff of the 11th Cavalry Division. From 1888 to 1889 he commanded a squadron of the 34th Staroduber Dragoon Regiment, which was followed by a post in the staff of the II Army Corps until 1892. Scheideman was then senior adjutant of the Kiev military district until 1896, and in 1894 he achieved the rank of colonel .

From 1896 to 1901 Scheideman was then chief of staff of the 4th Cavalry Division, then commander of the 1st Moscow Leib-Dragoon Regiment for a year. For the next four years until 1906 he served on the staff of the Moscow Military District, most recently as major general in the position of district quartermaster general. At the end of 1906 Scheideman was transferred to the Far Eastern (Cis-Amurian) military district for two years as Chief of the General Staff and was promoted to Lieutenant General here in 1907 . From 1908 to 1912 he was in command of the 3rd Cavalry Division in Kaunas . In May 1912 he took over the II Army Corps in the Vilna military district, which he also led at the beginning of the First World War.

As part of the Russian 1st Army , Scheideman's corps took part in the invasion of East Prussia in August 1914 . After the death of General Samsonow , the commander of the 2nd Army , which was crushed in the Battle of Tannenberg , Scheideman was appointed his successor. With the 2nd Army he fought in the Battle of the Vistula in the Warsaw - Nowogeorgiewsk area and then in the Battle of Łódź . After the latter he was deposed in December 1914 and appointed commanding general of the I. Turkestan Army Corps, which he then led until June 1917, including in the Brusilov offensive of 1916. He was then transferred to the reserve of the Kiev military district. Reactivated in November 1917, he temporarily led the 10th Army and in the following year entered the service of the Red Army , for which he led troops in the Ryazan area during the civil war . He was later arrested and likely died in prison.

literature

• К. А. Залесский: Кто был кто в Первой мировой войне. АСТ, 2003, pp. 670-672.

Web links

• Career data on grwar.ru (russ.)