Kārlis Goppers
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General Kārlis Goppers (April 2, 1876, Plāņi parish – March 25, 1941 at Ulbroka) was a Latvian military officer and the founder and President of Latvijas Skautu un Gaidu Centrālā Organizācija. He was the commander of the 7th Bauska riflemen regiment during World War I and commander of the Vidzeme division of the Latvian army, from 1924 to April 1934, when he retired.
In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Latvia, a special officer was appointed by the communists to abolish Scouting. Scouting continued unofficially and underground, operating without uniforms and in the forests to avoid detection. On 30 September 1940, the NKVD arrested General Goppers. He was sentenced to death and on 25 March 1941, he was shot in Ulbroka forest.
Goppers is recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class.[1]
See also
External links
- Ēriks Jēkabsons, «100 Latvijas personības» — Konservatīvais ģenerālis, «Latvijas Avīze» (in Latvian)
- Scouting Round the World, John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 116
- http://forum.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/title/Goppers-Karlis/t/64752
References
- ^ Priedītis, Ērichs Ēriks (1996). Latvijas Valsts apbalvojumi un Lāčplēši (in Latvian). Riga: Junda. ISBN 9984-01-020-1. OCLC 38884671.
- 1876 births
- 1941 deaths
- People from Strenči Municipality
- People from the Governorate of Livonia
- Latvian generals
- People associated with Scouting
- Scouting pioneers
- Scouting and Guiding in Latvia
- Imperial Russian military personnel
- Latvian Riflemen
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- People of the Russian Civil War
- Recipients of the Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd class
- Latvian people executed by the Soviet Union
- Executed Latvian people