Schwartz, Nikolai Nikolaevich

Born February 14, 1882.

He graduated from the Novgorod Real School . On August 26, 1902 he entered the Alekseevsky Military School , from which he was graduated on August 9, 1904 with the rank of second lieutenant in the 2nd Engineer Battalion, after which he took part in the hostilities during the Russo-Japanese War .

In 1911 he graduated from the Nikolaev Military Academy in the first category.

On November 3, 1911 he was appointed to the position of company commander in the 85th Vyborg Infantry Regiment , on April 6, 1913 - to the position of senior adjutant of the headquarters of the 1st Grenadier Division , then temporarily served as headquarters officer for instructions of the headquarters of the Grenadier Corps , and from 10 September 1915, he temporarily served as assistant senior adjutant of the Quartermaster General of the 4th Army Headquarters .

On July 12, 1916, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff of the Quartermaster General Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front , and then temporarily served as Chief of Staff of the 44th Infantry Division .

In January 1918, he was appointed to the post of head of the first intelligence clerical work (later branch) of the intelligence department of the 2nd Quartermaster General (Ogenkvar-2) Main Directorate of the General Staff . In February 1918, while remaining in the same position, voluntarily joined the Red Army . On May 8, 1918, the Main Directorate of the General Staff was liquidated, and the Military Statistical Division of the Operational Directorate of the General Headquarters took up intelligence, where Schwartz took the same position. While in these posts, from January to October 1918 he led the foreign intelligence service of the RSFSR .

In October 1918, he was appointed to the post of chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the Eastern Front , then - successively to the posts of assistant chief of staff of the Caucasian Front and chief of the operational department of staff of the South-Western Front .

On February 25, 1920, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the Western Front , after which he took part in the hostilities of the Soviet-Polish war , during which he drew up a plan for an attack on Warsaw , but due to the failure of the offensive, Schwartz was removed from his post in September 1920 . The Cheka was arrested on September 9, 1921 , but was already released on December 6, 1921.

In December 1921 he was appointed to the post of senior strategy leader of the Red Army Military Academy , and soon became the head of the Oriental Department of the Academy ^[1] . In the early 1930s, N. N. Schwartz worked as a senior director of the general tactics department of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after MV Frunze . On July 4, 1936, he was appointed to the post of senior lecturer in the department of operational art and strategy (as well as the head of one of the training groups) of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army , and then to the post of professor in the department of operational art (army operation). On December 11, 1938, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 02586, commander N. N. Schwartz was given all the rights of the General Staff of the Red Army who graduated from the Academy .

In June 1941, Major General N. N. Schwartz was a professor in the department of operational art of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army named after K.V. Voroshilov . Since May 1942 - Deputy Head of the Department of Operational Art of the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov .

He died on October 4, 1944 in Moscow . He was buried at Vvedensky cemetery . An urn with ashes was buried in an old columbarium from Kryukovskaya street.

Russian empire

• Order of St. Stanislav 3 degrees (1905);
• Order of St. Anne 3 degrees (05/13/1914);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4 degrees with swords and bow (02.26.1915);
• Order of St. Anne 2 degrees with swords (11/17/1914);
• Order of St. Stanislav 2 degrees with swords (11.17.1914).

the USSR

• Order of the Red Banner (1922; RVSR Order No. 133) - for participation in the Soviet-Polish war;
• Two Orders of the Red Star (1938, 02.22.1944).

Russian empire

• Second Lieutenant ( Art. 09.08.1904);
• Lieutenant (Art.10.08.1907);
• Headquarters Captain (Art. 07.05.1911);
• captain (st. 06.12.1913);
• Lieutenant Colonel 1916 (Article 25.03.1915);
• Colonel (08/15/1917).

the USSR

• Comdiv (12/05/1935);
• Major General (06/04/1940);
• Lieutenant General (08/29/1943).

The author of a number of works on military command and military history, including:

• Material support for the advance of the Western Front in July-August 1920 - 1936.
• Preparation and conduct by the command and headquarters of front-line and army operations - 1936.
• The work of the front command and the army and their headquarters operations management - 1938.
• The military control device - 1927.

• Tinchenko Y. Golgotha ​​Russian officers in the USSR 1930-1931. - M .: 2000.
• GRU: Cases and people / Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lurie, Valery Yakovlevich Kochik; Comp. Kolpakidi A. And .. - SPb .; M.: Neva: OLMA-PRESS, 2002.

• Schwartz, Nikolai Nikolaevich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".