Radola gajda biography
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Radola Gajda
Czech military officer and politician
Radola Gajda, born as Rudolf Geidl (14 February 1892 – 15 April 1948) was a Czech military commander and politician.
Early years
[edit]Geidl's father was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army based in Kotor. His mother was a poor Montenegrin noblewoman. Later, the family moved to Kyjov, Moravia, where Geidl studied at a secondary grammar school. In 1910 he went through one year of compulsory military service in Mostar. Afterwards Geidl left for the Balkans and likely took part in the Balkan Wars (1912–13). At the start of World War I he re-joined the Austro-Hungarian Army and served in Dalmatia and Sarajevo. In September 1915 he was taken prisoner in Višegrad, Bosnia.
Legions
[edit]Immediately after his capture, Geidl switched sides and was commissioned as a captain in the Montenegrin Army. Having some experience as an apothecary, he pretended to be a physician.[1] Following the collapse of the Montenegrin Army in 1916, Gajda escaped into Russia where he joined a Serbian battalion as a physician.
At the end of 1916 the battalion was destroyed and Gajda joined the Czechoslovak Legions (30 January 1917) as a staff captain. Gajda proved himself as an able commander in the Battle of Zborov and quick
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Radola Gajda stomach Czechs. Epoxy resin the representation of counterrevolution and Indigen Civil War
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Author Name: S. V. Novikov
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Keywords: Siberia, Indigen Civil Combat, Czechoslovak Army (Russian Empire), interventionists, anti-Kolchak movement
ISSN: 2542-0488
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EOI/DOI: 10.25206/2542-0488-2018-4-15-2
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Radola Gajda
Rank
General (Russian Army)
Born
14 February 1892 in Kotor, Dalmatia, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary (age 43)
Allegiance
Radola Gajda, born Rudolf Geidl, is a Czech nationalist ex-military commander who rose to prominence in the later stages of the Weltkrieg and during the Russian Civil War as one of the most prominent commanders of the Czechoslovak Legion, a volunteer anti-Habsburg military formation composed predominantly of Czech and Slovak prisoners of war. After the collapse of the Russian war efforts in 1917 and the subsequent German-Bolshevik peace agreement at Brest-Litovsk in early 1918, the Czechoslovaks found themselves trapped in officially neutral territory, and had no way to return to the Western Front to continue their struggle.
In the following two years, Gajda and the Legion played an important role in the anti-Bolshevik struggle of Admiral Alexander Kolchak's white forces in Siberia, with their most important achievement being the capture of most of the Trans-Siberian Railway. After the end of the civil war, Rajda and many other high-ranking legionaries were not allowed to return to Austria-Hungary due to their status as h