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22-555: (Redirected from Blucher ) Blücher may refer to: People [ edit ] Blücher (surname) Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian field marshal who led the Prussians at the Battle of Waterloo Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Blücher (film) , a 1988 Norwegian film Frau Blücher, a character in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein "Blücher",

44-523: A blucher in American English, whose laces tie over the tongue on two flaps Blucher shoe , a shoe with open lacing, similar to the derby, but with vamp in one piece Other uses [ edit ] Blucher (horse) (died 1841), a British Thoroughbred racehorse Blücher, a boarding house at Wellington College, Berkshire , England Blücher, a manufacturer of stainless steel drainage systems See also [ edit ] Blüchern ,

66-611: A certain degree of immunity from Stalin's purge of Red Army command, which had begun in 1937 with execution of Mikhail Tukhachevsky —in fact, Blyukher had been a member of the tribunal that convicted Tukhachevsky. On 15 June 1938, three days after the head of the Far Eastern NKVD Genrikh Lyushkov defected to Japan, Blyukher visited NKVD headquarters in Moscow, seeking information about the defector and about potential consequences of his disappearance. He met

88-674: A degree of autonomy in the Far East unusual for a Soviet military commander. With Japan steadily extending its grip on China and hostile to the Soviet Union, the Far East was an active military command. In the Russo-Chinese Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929–30 he defeated Chinese warlord forces in a quick campaign. For this outstanding achievement he became the first recipient of the Order of

110-477: A former estate village of Blücher family, now district. Blucher, Saskatchewan , Canada, an unincorporated community Rural Municipality of Blucher No. 343 , Saskatchewan Blucher, Newcastle, a small district of Newcastle upon Tyne , England Blucher Creek , California, United States Transport [ edit ] List of ships named Blucher Blücher (locomotive) , an early railway locomotive Shoes [ edit ] Derby shoe , called

132-576: A gambling game that Field Marshal Blücher was said to have played Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Blücher . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blücher&oldid=1217019022 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Short description

154-743: A leading figure in the Chinese People's Liberation Army . Chiang allowed Blyukher to "escape" after his anti-communist purge . On his return he was given command of the Ukrainian Military District , and then in 1929 he was transferred to the vitally important military command in the Far Eastern Military District , known as the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army (OKDVA). Based at Khabarovsk , Blyukher exercised

176-575: A song by power metal band Kamelot from their 2007 album Ghost Opera Blücher, a hand in the British card game Napoleon Military [ edit ] Operation Blücher , one World War I and two World War II German army operations Blücher Order , an East German decoration named after Field Marshal Blücher Wolf pack Blücher , a German U-boat pack of World War II List of ships named Blucher , which includes warships (as well as civilian vessels) Places [ edit ] Blücher ,

198-632: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bl%C3%BCcher (surname) Blücher or Bluecher is a German surname. The Russified form is Blyukher . Notable people with the surname include: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Napoleonic era Prussian general Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist, wife of Gebhard von Blücher (1865–1931) Franz Blücher (1896–1959), German politician Heinrich Blücher (1899–1970), German philosopher Vasily Blyukher (1899–1938), Marshal of

220-516: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Blyukher In 1938, Blyukher was arrested during the period of military purges under Joseph Stalin . He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before succumbing to his injuries. His body was then incinerated on the orders of Stalin. Blyukher was born into a Russian peasant family named Gurov, in the village of Barschinka in Yaroslavl Governorate . In

242-839: The Red Army in 1918 and soon became a commander. During the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923, he was one of the outstanding figures on the Bolshevik side. After the Czech Legion revolt started in May 1918, the 10,000-strong South Urals Partisan Army under Blyukher's command marched 1,500 km in 40 days (August–September 1918) of continuous fighting to attack White forces from the rear, then joined with regular Red Army units. For this achievement in September 1918, he became

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264-453: The 19th century a landlord gave the nickname Blyukher to the Gurov family in commemoration of the famous Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819). As a teenager, he was employed at a machine works, but was arrested in 1910 for leading a strike, and sentenced to two years, eight months in prison. In 1914, Vasily Gurov — who later formally assumed Blyukher as his surname —

286-527: The NKVD was effectively controlled by Lavrentiy Beria . It was long believed that Blyukher was secretly tried, convicted of spying for Japan, and executed. In 1939 Chiang Kai-shek inquired about Blyukher's whereabouts in a meeting with Stalin, and asked if he could return to help the Nationalists. Stalin replied that the general had been executed for helping a Japanese spy. As early as February 1956, it

308-706: The Petrograd military district. From 1924 to 1927 Blyukher was a Soviet military adviser in China , where he used the name Galen (after the name of his wife, Galina) while attached to Chiang Kai-shek 's military headquarters. He was responsible for the military planning of the Northern Expedition which began the Kuomintang unification of China. Among those he instructed in this period was Lin Biao , later

330-707: The Red Star in September 1930, and became popularly known as the "Red Napoleon ". In 1935 he was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union . From July to August 1938 he commanded the Soviet Far East Front in a less decisive action against the Japanese at the Battle of Lake Khasan , on the border between the Soviet Union and Japanese-occupied Korea . The importance of the Far East Front gave Blyukher

352-475: The Soviet Union (named after the Prussian general) Wolfgang Graf von Blücher (1917–1941), German World War II paratrooper Erik Blücher (born 1953), expatriate Norwegian far-right activist [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Blücher . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

374-535: The deputy head of the NKVD, Mikhail Frinovsky , who appears to have reassured him that he would not be held responsible for letting Lyushkov cross the Manchurian border. On 17 June, Frinovsky and the head of the Red Army political directorate, Lev Mekhlis , were dispatched to the Far East to conduct mass arrests, and to spy on Blyukher. He was arrested on 22 October, by which time Frinovsky had been dismissed and

396-582: The first recipient of the Order of the Red Banner (later he was awarded it four more times: twice in 1921 and twice in 1928), the citation read: "The raid made by Comrade Blyukher's forces under impossible conditions can only be equated with Suvorov 's crossings in Switzerland ." After Blyukher's troops rejoined the Red Army lines in the 3rd Red Army area of the Eastern Front , his force

418-1107: The person's given name (s) to the link. v t e Surnames associated with the occupations of light metalworking: tinker / tinsmith / plumber , etc. Germanic Tinker Flaschner Blacher , Blecher , Blechner , Bleckner , Blöcher , Blocher , Blücher ( Bluecher , Blyukher (Russified) ), Blechschmidt , Blechschmied Klempner , Klemperer , Klamperer , Klemptner Klampfer , Klampferer Kesselman Spengler [REDACTED] Romance Calderone Calderón Cauderon , Caudeiron Căldăraru , Căldăraș Magnano , Magnani Slavic Kotlarz , Kotljarchuk , Kotlarski , Kotlarek , Kotlarczyk Kotlyar , Kotlyarov , Kotlyarevsky , Kotlyarsky , Kotlyarenko Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blücher_(surname)&oldid=1215554641 " Categories : Surnames Occupational surnames German-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

440-923: Was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire as a corporal but in 1915 was seriously wounded in the Great Retreat , and excused from military service. He then went to work in a factory in Kazan, where he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1916. He took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917 in Samara . In late November 1917 the Red Guard forces of Commander V. K. Sadlutskii and Commissar Blyukher moved from Samara to Chelyabinsk to suppress Alexander Dutov 's revolt. Blyukher joined

462-641: Was reorganised as the 51st Rifle Division , which he later led to further triumphs against Baron Wrangel in November 1920. After the Civil War he served as military commander of the Far Eastern Republic from 1921 to 1922. From December 1921, he took personal command of the campaign to remove the remnants of anti-Bolshevik forces east of the Amur river. In 1922−1924, he served as the commander of

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484-414: Was secretly reported to the party leadership, by a commission appointed to investigate the purges, that a former officer had seen Blyukher while he was under interrogation, and that "his whole face was swollen and covered in bruises." Unlike most prisoners subjected to this kind of torture, he did not sign a false confession, but after 18 days of torture, he died from his injuries, on 9 November 1938. His body

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