Max Reyter

Max Andreyevich Reyter
Max Andreyevich Reyter
Born	24 April [O.S. 12 April] 1886; Sirgen, Kreis Windau, Courland Governorate ; Russian Empire ; (in present-day Ziras, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia)
Died	6 April 1950 (aged 63); Moscow, Russian SFSR ; Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire (1906–1917) ; Soviet Russia (1919–1922) ; Soviet Union (1922–1950)
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army ; Red Army / Soviet Army
Years of service	1906–1917 ; 1919–1950
Rank	Colonel-general
Commands held	20th Army (1942); Bryansk / Reserve Front ; (1942–1943); South Ural Military District ; (1943–1945);
Battles/wars	World War I; Russian Civil War; World War II;
Awards	Order of Lenin; Order of Suvorov, 1st class; Order of the Red Banner (4x) ; and other awards;

Max Andreyevich Reyter (Russian: Макс Андреевич Рейтер, Latvian: Mārtiņš Reiters; 24 April 1886 [O.S. 12 April] – 6 April 1950) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet military officer of Latvian origin.

A lieutenant-general in the Red Army at the time of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Reyter was a commander of the 20th Army and the commander-in-chief for the Bryansk Front in 1942–1943. Promoted to colonel-general in 1943, he headed the South Ural Military District September 1943 to July 1945.

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