Jean Frantsevich Zonberg ( 1891 (according to other sources, 1896 [3] ) - September 1, 1938 ) - Soviet military leader, chief and military commissar of the Academy of Armored Forces , inspector of the USSR NCO on military work of Osoaviahim of the USSR , commander [4] .
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| Date of Birth | 1891 | ||
| Place of Birth | Remt volost, Tukkum county , Courland province , Russia | ||
| Date of death | September 1, 1938 | ||
| Place of death | Moscow Region ( Kommunarka firing range ), USSR | ||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire RSFSR the USSR | ||
| Years of service | 1914 - 1937 | ||
| Rank |  Comcor | ||
| Commanded | 25th Infantry Division (1st formation) 6th Rifle Corps (1st formation) | ||
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Biography
Latvian, from peasants, member of the CPSU (b) , higher education, lieutenant of the tsarist army. After graduation, he worked as a clerk in the volost administration, then in Saratov at the factory . In the same place in 1909 joined the RSDLP (b) . In 1911 he entered the law faculty of Moscow University , from where he was expelled for participating in the revolutionary movement. In 1914 he was drafted into the army. He fought in the Caucasus. In 1917 he participated in the storming of the Winter Palace .
In 1917, the chairman of the Valkovsky Revolutionary Committee , then the commissioner at the headquarters of the commander in chief of the Petrograd Military District. The commander of the armored train number 2 Putilovsky plant (February - March 24, 1918 ), fought in the Urals and Siberia . He was sent to the western regions of the republic, then to Irkutsk to form units of the Red Army (March 24 - May 21, 1918), he commanded detachments in the Krasninsky direction (June 20 - July 18, 1918). Brigade commander: 1st Middle Ural (October 7 - November 2, 1918), Special (as part of the 3rd army) (November 2 - December 31, 1918). Assistant Commander of the Riga Forces (February 11 - May 30, 1919), commander of the Separate Special Forces Regiment of the 15th Army (May 30 - September 1, 1919). He commanded the 4th, then the 2nd brigades of the 41st Infantry Division (October 27, 1919 - January 1, 1920), the 41st Infantry Division (May 29 - September 2, 1920; December 25, 1920 - January 1, 1921), group 45- 1st Infantry Division (September 1920), then the 41st Infantry Brigade (from January 1, 1921). In 1921-1924, commander of the 25th Rifle Division ( Chapaevskaya ), then the 20th Rifle Division, assistant commander of the 1st Rifle Corps.
at the XVI Congress of the CPSU (B.), 1930
J. F. Zonberg sits in the second row on the far right
From January 1925 - commander of the 3rd Rifle Kazan Division [5] , from May 1925 - commander of the 6th Rifle Corps [6] . In 1928 - 1929 , Zonberg, among five high-ranking Soviet military commanders - Yakir , Latsis , Longva , Stepanov - studied at the German Military Academy under the General Staff (then the governments of the Weimar Republic and the USSR conducted mutual military training). At the end of the course, they were received by the German President Hindenburg . In 1929 - 1932 assistant commander of the Belarusian Military District. In 1930, he was sent to Moscow as a delegate of the 16th Congress of the CPSU (B.) From the Belarusian Military District . B 1932-1933 the first head of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army , in 1933 - 1937 an inspector at the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR for military work of the USSR Osoaviahim . With the introduction of personal military ranks in 1935, he received the rank of commander.
He lived in Moscow on 109 Gorky Street , apartment 8. He was arrested on November 29, 1937 . Sentenced by the HCVF of the USSR on September 1, 1938 on charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization to the Navy . Shot the same day. Rehabilitated June 30, 1956 .
Literature
- P.D. Mushchinsky. The attacks thundered. - O., “The Lighthouse”, 1972.
- Newspaper Tagil Worker February 21, 2004.
- Khlebnikov N.M., Evlampiev P.S., Volodikhin Y. A. "The Legendary Chapaevskaya". Moscow, 1967.
Notes
- ↑ Order of the RVSR 1923 No. 2.
- ↑ Order No. 171 of October 5, 1923 .
- ↑ famous people
- ↑ Order of the NCO of the USSR on personnel No. 2395 of November 20, 1935 .
- ↑ Order of the RVS (on army personnel) dated January 20, 1925 No. 42.
- ↑ Order of the PBC (according to the fox composition of the army) dated May 13, 1925 No. 320.