Wassili Wassiljewitsch Ulrich
Vassily Ulrich ( Russian Василий Васильевич Ульрих ; born July 1, jul. / 13. July 1889 greg. In Riga , † 7. May 1951 in Moscow ) was a Soviet lawyer , Colonel-General and Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR (1926 -1948).
Life
Ulrich's father, who came from a German-Baltic family, was a Latvian revolutionary, while the mother is said to have come from a Russian noble family. The family was forcibly relocated to Siberia because of the father's activity . She lived in Irkutsk Governorate .
Wassili Ulrich married Anna Kassel, who had been a member of the SDAPR (Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia) since 1910 and secretary to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . He began studying business at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (now Riga University of Technology ) in 1910, graduating in 1914, and took part in the First World War as an officer . After joining the Bolshevik movement , Trotsky became aware of him and recruited him for the Cheka .
Career
Ulrich was a military judge during the civil war. From 1926 he headed the military college. Stalin was impressed by his laconic style of negotiation. Ulrich was, among other things, the presiding judge during the 1937 show trial against Marshal Michail Tukhachevsky and his co-accused generals of the Red Army Robert Eidemann (1895-1937), Boris Feldman , Iona Jakir , August Kork , Vitaly Primakov and Witowt Putna (1893-1937). All were sentenced to death and shot.
Among the people sentenced to death by Ulrich were the murderer of Sergei Kirov , Leonid Nikolajew , the well-known theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, and the journalists and writers Michail Kolzow and Isaak Babel .
The Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR had its headquarters at 23 Nikolskaya Street in Moscow from 1934 to 1955 , in whose rooms over 31,000 people were sentenced to death and executed from 1936 to 1938 alone, some without even having been heard.
After 1945 Ulrich, who was highly decorated several times, headed the tribunal against the leadership of the Polish Home Army . Like many other judges, he was dismissed in 1948. Until his death in 1951 he headed the military law academy.
literature
- Robert Conquest : The Great Terror. Soviet Union 1934–1938 , 2nd edition, Munich: Langen-Müller, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7844-2415-6 .
- Donald Rayfield: Stalin and his executioners , Munich: Blessing-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89667-181-2 .
- Eugen Ruge : Metropol . Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-00123-0 (429 pages, with direct references to WW Ulrich).
Individual evidence
- ^ Wadim S. Rogowin: Was there an alternative "The Party of the Executed " , Volume 5, MEHRING Verlag GmbH, 1999, p. 564
- ^ Robert Conquest: He will slaughter us all "Stalin's great purge" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1971 ( online ).
- ↑ Herbert Ammon: Wassili Blücher - the hero in the Maelstrom of the revolution. Retrieved September 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Deutschlandradio : Current History: The Prelude to Open Terror from December 6, 2009
- ↑ Gisela Reller: The sunset of peace. In: www.reller-rezensions.de. Retrieved on September 1, 2014 (reviews by Gisela Reller on the book: Die Abendröte des Friedens by Wladislaw Hedeler and Nadja Rosenblum).
- ↑ Nikolskaya 23. In: izi.travel. Retrieved July 23, 2018 (based on information from Memorial ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ulrich, Wassili Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | У́льрих, Васи́лий Васи́льевич (Russian); Ulrich, Wassilij |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet lawyer, Colonel-General and Chairman of the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR (1926-1948) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1951 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |