Max Reyter
Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андре́евич Ре́йтер; Latvian: Mārtiņš Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950) was a Russian and Soviet military officer of Latvian origin.
Born~Died Apr 24, 1886 ~ Apr 6, 1950Last edited Oct 15, 2026, 5:53 PM
Details
- Born ~ Died
- Apr 24, 1886 ~ Apr 6, 1950
- Born
- 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1886, Sirgen, Kreis Windau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 6 April 1950(1950-04-06) (aged 63), Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Allegiance
- Russia (1906–1917) , Russian SFSR (1919–1922) , Soviet Union (1922–1950)
- Branch
- Imperial Russian Army , Red Army , Soviet Army
- Service years
- 1906–1917 , 1919–1950
- Rank
- Colonel-general
- Commands
- 20th Army (1942) Bryansk / Reserve Front , (1942–1943) South Ural Military District , (1943–1945)
- Conflicts
- World War I Russian Civil War World War II
- Awards
- Order of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, 1st class, Order of the Red Banner (4x) , and other awards
- Location
- 57.1391, 21.6104
Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андре́евич Ре́йтер; Latvian: Mārtiņš Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950)1 was a Russian and Soviet military officer of Latvian origin.
A lieutenant-general in the Red Army at the time of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Reyter was a commander of the 20th Army and the commander-in-chief for the Bryansk Front in 1942–1943. Promoted to colonel-general in 1943, he headed the South Ural Military District September 1943 to July 1945.
Biography
Max Andreyevich Reyter was born to peasant Latvian parents in Sirgen, Kreis Windau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Ziras, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia) on 24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1886, Max Reyter voluntarily joined the Imperial Russian Army in 1906. He graduated from the Irkutsk Military School in 1910. During World War I he commanded a company, battalion in the Caucasus Front, and was an officer for assignments at the army headquarters on the Western Front. A colonel in the Russian Army at the time of its collapse before the advancing German Army in 1917–1918, Reyter was captured by Germans at the front and taken to a German in in February 1918. He sided with the after returning to Russia, and joined the in 1919.
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