Maurice Conradi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurice Conradi

Swiss military personnel (1896-1947)

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1896

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 07-Feb-1947

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Maurice Conradi Russian: ????? ????????? ??????? (16 June 1896, in Saint Petersburg - 7 February 1947, in Chur, Switzerland), was a Russian White movement officer who fought in World War I and Civil War in Russia, and in 1923 killed Vatslav Vorovsky, a member of the Bolshevik delegation to the Lausanne conference.Conradi was born in Saint Petersburg to a family of Swiss businessmen, owners of a chocolate factory established in 1853 by Conradi's grandfather.
Upon the outbreak of World War I he joined the Russian Imperial Army with the personal permission of Nicholas II and fought on the Eastern front.
During the Bolshevik Revolution most of his family was killed: his father was executed in Saint Petersburg on 26 November 1919, his brother Victor taken hostage and executed in 1918, and two further siblings disappeared during the Red Terror.
After the unsuccessful campaign of the Wrangel Army he moved to Switzerland, radicalized against the Bolshevik government and planning revenge.