Vilhelm Evgenievich Garf | |
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| Born | January 3, 1885 (December 1884 O.S.) Grodno, Russian Empire |
| Died | August 22, 1938 Kommunarka, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Service | Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
| Years of service | 1902 - 1917 (Russian Empire) 1918 - 1938 (Soviet Union) |
| Rank | colonel (Russian Empire) Komdiv (Soviet Union) |
| Unit | 3rd Army Corps (Russian Empire) 1st Army (Russian Empire) 2nd Army Corps (Russian Empire) Eastern Front (RSFSR) |
| Battles / wars | World War I Russian Civil War |
Vilhelm Evgenievich Garf (January 3, 1885 – August 22, 1938) was a Russian and Soviet military leader of German-Latvian descent, Colonel of the General Staff of the Russian Empire. He fought in the First World War, participated in the Civil War as part of the Red Army, an Officer of the General Staff of the RIA, later - the General Headquarters of the Red Army of the highest service category, division commander and head of the Telecommunications Academy. V.N. Podbelsky. Later he was a victim of political repression in the USSR.
He belonged to a German-Baltic noble family and was an evangelical Lutheran.
His name appeared, alongside komkor Vladimir Gittis, on the death list of 20 August 1938, which was signed by Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov. He was convicted that day of espionage by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and sentenced to death. He was executed two days later at Kommunarka.