The Generals of WWII

Generals from Soviet Union Flag for Soviet Union
Portrait of Marshal of Soviet Union Lavrentii Pavlovich Beriia

Beriia, Lavrentii Pavlovich

Marshal of Soviet Union

* 17th of March 1899

† 23rd of December 1953

(NKVD)

(Лаврентий Павлович Берия)

Promotions

1938-09-11 Commissar of State Security 1st Rank
1941-01-30 Commissar-General of State Security
1945-07-09 Marshal of Soviet Union

Service

1926-12-XX 1931-03-XX Head of State Political Administration GPU Georgia
1931-03-XX 1931-10-31 Head of State Political Administration GPU, Transcaucasus
1931-XX-XX 1932-XX-XX First Secretary of Georgian Communist Party
1932-XX-XX 1938-XX-XX First Secretary of Transcaucasian Communist Party
1938-XX-XX Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NKVD
1938-11-25 1945-12-29 People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-06-30 1944-05-16 Member of the State Committee for Defence
1942-XX-XX 1943-XX-XX Representative of the Supreme Command in Caucasus
1944-05-16 1945-09-04 Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Defence
1946-01-XX 1953-03-05 Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
1953-03-05 1953-06-26 Minister of Internal Affairs
1953-06-26 1953-12-23 Arrested
1953-12-23 Condemned to death
1953-12-23 Executed
Picture source: Courtesy of Auke de Vlieger