In this Mongolian name, the given name is Demid. Gelegdorjiin is a patronymic, not a family name.
Gelegdorjiin Demid
Гэлэгдоржийн Дэмид
Minister of Military Affairs of People's Republic of Mongolia
In office 1930 – 22 August 1937
Leader
Anandyn Amar (as Chairman of the Presidium of the State Little Hural)
Preceded by
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Succeeded by
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
Personal details
Born
1900 (1900) Ikh-Tamir, Arkhangai Province, Outer Mongolia, Qing China
Died
22 August 1937 (aged 36–37) Tayga, Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (1921–1937)
Military service
Allegiance
Mongolian People's Republic
Branch/service
Mongolian People's Army
Years of service
1921–1937
Rank
Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic
Gelegdorjiin Demid (Mongolian: Гэлэгдоржийн Дэмид; 1900 – August 22, 1937) was a prominent political and military figure in 1920s and 1930s Mongolia who served as minister of war and Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic (general chief commander) of the Mongolian armed forces. His death under suspicious circumstances in 1937 allowed his rival Khorloogiin Choibalsan to consolidate power and subsequently launch the Great Terror during which 30,000 to 35,000 Mongolians died.
GelegdorjiinDemid (Mongolian: Гэлэгдоржийн Дэмид; 1900 – August 22, 1937) was a prominent political and military figure in 1920s and 1930s Mongolia who...
Mongolian power players to increase his prestige. In 1936 Choibalsan and GelegdorjiinDemid were appointed Marshals of the Armed Forces while Choibalsan also...
was arrested and then shot. In August 1937, the 36-year-old Marshal GelegdorjiinDemid, whose popularity Choibalsan had always resented, died under suspicious...
history was initially proposed by Minister of Military Affairs Marshal GelegdorjiinDemid (1932-1937), but the museum was not established until years later...
writer (b. 1902) August 22 Owen Burns, American entrepreneur (b. 1869) GelegdorjiinDemid, Russian political military figure (b. 1900) August 24 – Gervase Beckett...
article published by the newspaper questioned the death of Marshal GelegdorjiinDemid on Soviet territory, prompting the Soviet embassy to protest to the...
Minister: Anandyn Amar August 22 - GelegdorjiinDemid November 26 - Peljidiin Genden Atwood, Christopher P. "Demid, Marshal". Encyclopedia of Mongolia...
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