Mikhail Diterikhs

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Mikhail Diterikhs
General
Commands heldRussian Salonika Force
Siberian Army
Zemskaya Rat
Battles/warsRusso-Japanese War
World War I
Russian Civil War

Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs (Russian: Михаи́л Константи́нович Ди́терихс, German: Michail Konstantinowitsch Diterichs; May 17, 1874 – September 9, 1937) served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently became a key figure in the monarchist White movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East area during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923.

Descended from Lutheran

Bolshevik heathens".[2]

Biography

Diterikhs was born to Konstantin Alexandrovich Diterikhs, who served as a general of the Russian Imperial Army in the

Nikolaevsky Military Academy in St. Petersburg. From 1900 to 1903 he served in various staff positions in the Moscow Military District. In 1903 he was appointed commander of the squadron in the 3rd Dragoon
Regiment.

With the start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Diterikhs became chief officer for special duties at the 17th Army Corps headquarters. He arrived at the front in Manchuria in August 1904, and participated in the Battles of Liaoyang, Shaho and Mukden. By the end of the war, he was a lieutenant. After the end of the war he returned to Moscow, and in 1906 was chief officer for special duties at the 7th Army Corps headquarters. The following year, he had the same position at the Kiev Military District headquarters. He was promoted to colonel in 1909. In 1910, he served as a senior aide at the Kiev Military District headquarters. From 1913, Diterikhs was head of the Mobilization Department of the Main Directorate of the General Staff.[3]

With the start of

Macedonian front in support of the Serbian Army and fought the Bulgarian army and repelled them successfully in the Monastir offensive
.

After the

T. G. Masaryk's rifle regiment too.[5] He helped the Czech Legion to organize their first resistance in May 1918, and commanded their Irkutsk-Chita-Vladivostok
armed group.

Diterikhs was ordered by

Admiral Kolchak to arrest the Ufa
directory but delayed his move. After a few days on November 26, 1918, he finally agreed to obey to Kolchak's order and simultaneously resigned from the Czech Legion after a period of tense relations.

From January to July 1919 Diterikhs personally supervised the Sokolov investigation of the murder of

ritual murder organized by Jews.[6]

In July 1919 Diterikhs took command of the Siberian Army of Admiral Kolchak. He assisted in creation of various paramilitary militias in support of the White movement and the Russian Orthodox Church against the Bolsheviks. In September 1919 he commanded Admiral Kolchak's last successful offensive against the Red Army, the Tobolsk Operation. However, in December 1919 he resigned after a bitter quarrel with Kolchak and emigrated to Harbin in Manchuria.

Periodically Diterikhs figured in the negotiations between the

military support
.

Diterikhs founded the last

Provisional Priamur Government and its armed forces, called in archaic terms the Zemskaya Rat. On October 25, 1922, the Bolsheviks defeated Diterikhs's army, forcing an evacuation from Vladivostok to China and Korea
via Japanese ships.

After May 1923 Diterikhs moved from a military refugee camp to Harbin where many

White emigres settled. He became the head of the Far East chapter of the Russian All-Military Union organization. Diterikhs died in Shanghai in 1937, where he was buried.[7]

Honors

Notes

  1. ^ The Murder of the Royal Family and members of the House of Romanoffs in the Urals (Убийство Царской семьи и членов Дома Романовых на Урале)

References

  1. ^ Дитерихс Александр Иванович (Dieterichs Alexander Ivanovič)
  2. ISBN 9781135765958
    .
  3. ^ Биография Дитерихса на сайте Хроноса
  4. ^ Белая гвардия
  5. ISBN 978-80-87173-47-3
    , pages 36 - 39, 41 - 42, 111-112, 124–125, 128, 129, 132, 140–148, 184–199.
  6. ^ Семен, Резник (2 December 2017). Кто распространял слухи о «ритуальном убийстве» царской семьи. www.chayka.org (in Russian).
  7. ^ Умер в Шанхае белый генерал Михаил Константинович Дитерихс, последний вождь Белой армии, правитель Приамурского края
  8. ^ Czech order database
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