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Voldemar Avgustovich Ulmer

Вольдемар Августович Ульмер
Soviet Union Soviet communism Soviet Union Estonia (Swedish descent) 1896–1945 ○ Died in prison

Operational secretary of the GUGB whose 'certified' signature closes the Great Terror's operational orders

A 1943 camp evaluation described the man who had certified the mass-execution orders as an exemplary foreman and petitioned to cut three years off his sentence.

An NKVD brigade commander from the border troops, he served as operational secretary of the Main Directorate of State Security from April 1937 to September 1938 and certified the copies of Yezhov's Great Terror operational orders, including No. 00447. A protégé of Frinovsky, he briefly headed Beria's secretariat, was arrested in 1939, sentenced to fifteen years and died in a Krasnoyarsk camp in 1945.

Career timeline
  • 1916Graduated ensign school; from 1917 a company commander on the Southwestern Front
  • 1919–1922Adjutant and chief of staff in Red Army Boguchar regiments and brigades
  • 1924–1925Commander and instructor in the Cheka-OGPU border troops
  • 1928Graduated the Frunze Military Academy; instructor at the Border Troops School
  • 1934Chief of the Operations Department of the GUPVO border and internal troops
  • 1937–1938Operational secretary of the GUGB; certified Yezhov's Great Terror orders
  • 1938–1939Chief of Beria's secretariat, then acting deputy chief of the GUPVV