Robert Eideman

Robert Eideman
Born 1895
Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality, Russian Empire (modern  Latvia)
Died June 12, 1937
Moscow
Allegiance Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Years of service 1916–1917 (Russian Empire)
1918–1937 (Soviet Union)
Rank Komkor
Battles/wars Russian Civil War

Robert Eideman (Latvian: Roberts Eidemanis) (1895 – June 12, 1937) was an ethnic Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet. He was born in Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality in modern-day Latvia. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and the Russian Civil War on the side of the Soviet Red Army. He was a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918. He was one of the defendants in the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization alongside Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He was executed in Moscow. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated.

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