Robert Eideman | |
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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.