Max Reyter

Max Andreyevich Reyter
Born24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1886
Sirgen, Kreis Windau, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ziras, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia)
Died6 April 1950(1950-04-06) (aged 63)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire Russian Empire (1906–1917)
Soviet Russia (1919–1922)
Soviet Union Soviet Union (1922–1950)
Service / branchRussian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Red Army / Soviet Army
Years of service1906–1917
1919–1950
RankColonel-general
Commands
Battles / wars
AwardsOrder of Lenin
Order of Suvorov, 1st class
Order of the Red Banner (4x)
and other awards

Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андреевич Рейтер; Latvian: Mārtiņš Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950)[a 1] was a 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.
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