Mikhail Diterikhs

Mikhail Diterikhs
Diterikhs in 1918
Born	(1874-05-17)May 17, 1874 Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 9, 1937(1937-09-09) (aged 63) Shanghai, Republic of China
Allegiance	Russian Empire  Russian Republic
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army White Army
Rank	General
Commands	Russian Salonika Force Siberian Army Zemskaya Rat
Battles / wars	Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War
3rd Minister of War of Russian State
In office 10 August – 27 August 1919
Supreme Ruler	Alexander Kolchak
Prime Minister	Pyotr Vologodsky
Preceded by	Dmitry Lebedev
Succeeded by	Alexei von Budberg
Voivoda zemsky of the Provisional Priamurye Government
In office 23 July – 17 October 1922
Preceded by	Spiridon Merkulov
Succeeded by	Anatoly Pepelyayev

Mikhail Konstantinovich Diterikhs (Russian: Михаи́л Константи́нович Ди́терихс, German: Michail Konstantinowitsch Diterichs; May 17, 1874 – September 9, 1937) served as a general in the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently became a key figure in the monarchist White movement in Siberia and the Russian Far East area during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923.

Descended from Lutheran Sudeten German ancestors who became Baltic Germans,^[1] Diterikhs had a reputation as "a deeply religious man, the walls of whose private railway coach were plastered with icons"; he saw himself as "waging a holy war against the Bolshevik heathens".^[2]