Wladislaw Napoleonowitsch Klembowski

Wladislaw Napoleonowitsch Klembowski

Vladislav Napoleonowitsch Klembowski ( Russian Владислав Наполеонович Клембовский * June 28 ^{. Jul} / 10. July  1860 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 19th July 1921 in Moscow) was in the First World War, a Russian general of infantry and army commander.

Life

Wladislaw Napoleonowitsch was born into a noble family as the son of Tsarist Colonel Napoleon Klembowski. A younger brother Arthur Klembowski (1862–1920) rose to major general in the Imperial Army during World War II. He first attended the Nikolajewski Cadet Corps in Moscow and from 1879 the Alexsandrovsk Officers School. Then he graduated from the Nikolayevsk Academy of the General Staff in Saint Petersburg until 1885 .

Early career

He joined the Izmailovsk Guard Regiment in 1885 and then became a staff officer at the headquarters of the XIII. Army Corps. From February 15, 1886 to August 4, 1890, he served as a special advisor at the headquarters of the 1st Infantry Division. In 1887 he became company commander in the 1st Infantry Regiment, then from 1887 to 1889 in the same position in the 2nd Infantry Regiment. From 1890 to 1894 he served as a department head and lecturer in military science at the cavalry school in Tver and was made a colonel . He was installed as a staff officer in the 1st Infantry Brigade on August 11, 1894, and from May to September 1895 he was battalion commander of a regiment in the 2nd Guard Division. On November 27, 1897 he was chief of staff of the 7th Infantry Division, then he served in the same position from September 16, 1899 in the 11th Cavalry Division and from November 25, 1899 in the 31st Infantry Division. On June 30, 1901, he was given command of the 122nd Infantry Regiment of Tambov , which he led in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, where he was wounded twice. After his promotion to major general , he was appointed chief of staff of the IV Corps on October 21, 1904 during the war in Manchuria . On February 4, 1906, when he returned home, he occupied the same position in the X Army Corps. On June 29, 1912 he was promoted to lieutenant general , previously on June 29, 1912 he had received command of the 9th Infantry Division, which he also led at the beginning of the First World War.

In the world war

At the end of August 1914, the 9th Division of the X. Army Corps (General Siewers ) fought in the battle of Galicia . On October 13, 1914, he became commandant of the XVI. Army corps that was deployed in the 4th Army during the Battle of the Vistula . On November 4, 1914 he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th class. On September 17, 1915, he was promoted to General of the Infantry and on December 6, he was appointed Commander of the 5th Army , which he had to hand over to General AN Kuropatkin at the end of January 1916 . He was then appointed Chief of Staff of the Southwest Front , a position he held in the summer of 1916 during the successful Brusilov offensive against the Central Powers . For his ideas developed in it, he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th grade.

At the end of October 1916 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 11th Army at the front in Moldova instead of WW Sakharov . Then from December 20, 1916 he acted in the headquarters of the Stawka , as deputy chief of staff to General Alexejew and from March 11 to April 5, 1917 as the highest chief of staff of the Stawka. On May 31, 1917 he became Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front (1st, 5th and 12th Army and independent XLII Army Corps). On June 23, 1917, the troops under his command launched the 5th Army in the Jakobstadt an unsuccessful counteroffensive on the left bank of the Daugava was in a fight Ikskjul be secured a bridgehead and in August 1917 he organized the unsuccessful defense of Riga . In the early morning of 28 August 1917, he was following the resignation of General Kornilov of Prime Minister Kerensky a telegram sent with the following: "You are from the Provisional Government appointed the commander and have been to the headquarters of Pskov to go, for now keep their Position in Glawkoev. I suggest that you take over General Kornilov's position immediately and inform me immediately. ”However, Klembowski refused to accept the position of army commander, which is why he was demoted to the military council on September 9th.

Service in the Red Army

In the summer of 1918 he joined the Red Army and was appointed a member of the Military Legislative Council on August 3, to work in the Military-Historical Commission , which was supposed to evaluate the experiences of the First World War. His name is on the lists of the General Staff of the Red Army from July 15, 1919 and August 7, 1920. In the autumn of 1920 he was arrested for alleged complicity with the Poles and died after a 14-day hunger strike in Moscow's Butyrka prison. According to other sources, he was shot there.

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