Genrikh Khristoforovich Eiche
Генрих Христофорович Эйхе
1893–1968
○ Natural death; rehabilitated in 1954
Red commander who drove Kolchak's retreat to its collapse
In late 1919, Eiche's 5th Army drove Kolchak's retreat from the Tobol through Omsk and Tomsk to Krasnoyarsk.
Genrikh Eiche was a Latvian-born revolutionary, Red Army commander and military historian. On the Eastern Front in 1919, he led the 26th Rifle Division in bold operations against White rear areas, then commanded the 5th Army as Kolchak's forces retreated from the Tobol deep into Siberia. He later helped consolidate the Far Eastern Republic militarily, but was imprisoned on false charges during the Great Purge and rehabilitated in 1954.
Career Timeline
- 1915–1917Company commander and staff captain, 245th Infantry Regiment, Imperial Russian Army
- 1917Chairman, Military Revolutionary Committee of the 245th Infantry Regiment
- 1918–1919Red Army regimental and brigade commander on the Eastern Front
- 1919Commander, 26th Rifle Division
- 1919–1920Commander, 5th Army
- 1920–1921Commander-in-chief, People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic
- 1922Soviet forces commander in Belarus and the Fergana region
- 1924–1936Official in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade
- 1954–1968Military historian and author on the Civil War