Woldemar Rose

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Woldemar Rose (alias: Peter Alexander Skoblewsky , battle name : Hellmuth and Gorew ; Latvian Voldemārs Roze , Russian Вольдемар Рудольфович Розе ; born March 11, 1897 in Riga ; † January 20, 1939 in the Soviet Union ) was a Latvian revolutionary and. In 1923 he was active in Germany in October and was arrested. Rose was sentenced to death in the Leipzig Cheka Trial in 1925 under his code name Peter Alexander Skoblewsky ( Petr Alexandrowitsch Skoblewski ) as a member of the German Cheka .

Life

Rose was born in Riga into a Latvian working class family and trained to be a locksmith after graduating from school. From 1915 he served with the Latvian riflemen in the Russian army up to ensign and platoon leader. He also received awards for bravery through his front line service. After the October Revolution of 1917 , he fought on the Soviet side in various military units, including as regimental and brigade commander of the Red Latvian Rifles . Since 1918 he was a member of the Communist Party of Russia ( РКП (б) ).

In March 1921 he was a brigade commander in the suppression of the Kronstadt sailors' uprising by the Bolsheviks and one of the few commanders who was awarded the "Revolutionary Honor Weapon". This was followed by his use in the suppression of the Tambov peasant uprising . From July 1921 he was employed as division commander of the Red Army and then delegated to the General Staff Academy.

In March 1923 he was delegated to Germany to do illegal work and in September 1923 he was the successor to " Karl Gröhl " as head of the KPD's M department during the German October . Among other things, he was the author of the mobilization and arming plans for the preparation of the armed struggle. During this time he used the battle names Hellmuth and Gorew . In November 1923, he should instrumental in the founding and guidance to the T group of Felix Neumann have been involved. In March 1924 he was arrested in Berlin and in the spring of 1925 charged with inciting murder and high treason in the Cheka trial at the Reichsgericht in Leipzig under his code name as Peter A. Skoblewsky . Although he was sentenced to death, he returned to the Soviet Union in the fall of 1926 as part of a prisoner exchange.

From 1926 to 1932 he was deployed as a division commander of various military units and completed his training at the General Staff Academy in 1930. From 1932 he was head of military training at various universities. He was also a member of the ZEK of the Uzbek SSR . In 1934 he was transferred to the reserve and was in charge of security in the management of civil Soviet aviation. In 1936 he was given the rank of division commander.

Arrest and death

In the course of the Stalin purges , Rose was arrested in 1938 and shot on January 20, 1939. In 1956 he was rehabilitated.

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  1. ↑ Latvijas PSR Mazā Enciklopēdija, pp. 239, 240, Zinātne, Riga 1970 (biographical information partly contradicting other Soviet publications)
personal data
SURNAME Rose, Woldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skoblewski-Rose, Pyotr Alexis; Skoblewski, Petr Alexandrowitsch (battle name); Roze, Voldemārs (Latvian); Розе, Вольдемар Рудольфович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian communist, military chairman of the German Cheka (1923)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1939
Place of death Soviet Union