Max Reyter
| Max Andreyevich Reyter | |
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| Born |
24 April 1886 Ziras parish, Ventspils Municipality, Courland Governorate Russian Empire (now Latvia) |
| Died | 6 April 1950 (aged 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire (1906-1917).svg){kind=small} Soviet Russia (1919-1922) Soviet Union (1922-1950) |
| Service/branch |
Imperial Russian Army Red Army / Soviet Army
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| Years of service | 1906 - 1917 1919 - 1950 |
| Rank | Colonel-general |
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Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андреевич Рейтер, Latvian: Maksis Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950) was an Imperial 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.
Born to peasant Latvian parents in Ziras parish, Ventspils County, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Latvia) in 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 prisoner-of-war camp in East Prussia in February 1918. He sided with the Bolsheviks after returning to Russia, and joined the Red Army in 1919.
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