Konstantin Neumann

Konstantin Avgustovich Neumann (Russian: Константин Августович Нейман; January 28, 1897 – November 5, 1937) was a Soviet revolutionary born in what is now Jelgava, Latvia.

Before military service he was engaged in writing. A participant in the First World War, in 1916 he graduated from the school of ensigns, ensign.

In 1917, he joined the RSDLP, and then became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) a year later. During the Civil War, he initially served as the head of the Butyrka Military Commissariat of Moscow.

Then he was sent to the Eastern Front, where he was appointed senior adjutant of the headquarters of the Left-Bank Group of the 5th Army. From August 22, 1918, he commanded the 3rd Separate Brigade of the Red Latvian Riflemen subordinate to the commander of the 5th Army of the Red Army. The brigade distinguished itself in the Belebey, Ufa and Chelyabinsk operations. He was awarded a gold watch from the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

During the Petropavlovsk operation, with a detachment hastily organized from wagon trains, he made his way to the 35th Rifle Division, which was surrounded, and on September 20, 1919, took command Having organized a breakthrough from the encirclement, he developed the offensive of the division and by October 29 led it to the Ishim River. Then the division immediately crossed the river and was the first to break into Petropavlovsk, and the 26th and 27th divisions helped to defend the captured city Then he commanded other rifle divisions: from April 21, 1920 - Transbaikal, from April 26, 1920 - the 2nd Irkutsk, and from mid-May 1920 to August 1921 - again the 35th, at the same time being its military commissar.

He participated with his division in the Mongolian operation, during which he was also appointed commander of the expeditionary corps. During the operation, the detachments of Baron R. F. von Ungern were defeated and the baron himself was captured

In the interwar period, he commanded: from 1921 - the 5th Rifle Division, from 1924 - the 4th Rifle Corps, from 1928 - the 17th Rifle Corps. Then he was a senior lecturer at the Frunze Military Academy. In 1930-1934, he was in the reserve of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR and at that time held posts: since 1932 - assistant to the head of the Military-Industrial Directorate of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR, and since 1934 - head of the Special Mashtrust of the People's Commissariat of Commerce of the USSR. In 1934, he was transferred to the reserve of the Red Army and appointed head of the 8th Main Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Commerce of the USSR. On May 31, 1936, he was awarded the rank of corps commander. In 1936-1937 he was head of the 8th Main Directorate of the People's Commissariat of the USSR.

He was arrested on July 21, 1937. He was sentenced to death by the VKVS on November 5, 1937 and shot on the same day. He was posthumously rehabilitated on October 29, 1955.

In December 1937, his wife, Marianna Veniaminovna Neumann (born 1894), was sentenced as a member of the family of a traitor to the Motherland to eight years in the