János Gálicz
János Gálicz | |
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Nickname(s) | General Gal |
Born | 1890 Tótkomlós, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 1939(1939-00-00) (aged 48–49) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Soviet Union Spanish Republic |
Service/ | Red Army International Brigades |
Rank | Colonel |
Commands held | Abraham Lincoln Battalion |
Battles/wars | First World War Russian Civil War Spanish Civil War |
János Gálicz (1890–1939), better known as "General Gal", was a Hungarian and Soviet brigade and division commander during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography
Born in 1890 in the town of Tótkomlós in Austria-Hungary (now Békés county in Hungary).
As part of the Austro-Hungarian army, he participated in the First World War. During his service on Eastern Front he fell into Russian captivity. After the October Revolution he joined the Red Army and took part in the Russian Civil War.
He rained at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow and was promoted to the rank colonel. In 1936 he was sent to Spain and fought in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War under the assumed name of José Ivanovich Gal.
He planned and ordered an attack in the hills above the Jarama River which led to what was described by Ernest Hemingway as the decimation of the Twelfth International Brigade. After his return to the Soviet Union he was arrested during the Great Purge and presumably shot sometime in 1939, in Moscow.
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- János Gálicz (Jan–Feb 1937)
- Vladimir Ćopić (Feb–Jul 1937)
- Klaus Becker (Jul–Aug 1937)
- Vladimir Ćopić (Aug 1937–Mar 1938)
- Robert Hale Merriman (Mar–Apr 1938)
- Vladimir Ćopić (Apr–May 1938)
- José Antonio Valledor Álvarez [es] (May–Sep 1938)
- William Aalto
- Bernard Ades
- Bill Alexander
- Edward K. Barsky
- James Walker Benét
- Alvah Bessie
- Delmer Berg
- Herman Bottcher
- Edward A. Carter Jr.
- Christopher Caudwell
- Lewis Clive
- Morris Cohen
- Fred Copeman
- John Cornford
- Jock Cunningham
- Peter Daly
- Peko Dapčević
- Carmelo Delgado Delgado
- Charles Donnelly
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- Leo Eloesser
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- Maurice Levitas
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- Thomas Patten
- Will Paynter
- Koča Popović
- Harry Wayland Randall
- Patrick Read
- Esmond Romilly
- Frank Ryan
- Alfred Sherman
- George Sossenko
- Stephen Spender
- Wally Tapsell
- Robert G. Thompson
- Tom Wintringham
- Milton Wolff
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