Lidd, whose original name was Otto Braun, was born on September 28, 1900 in the town of Ismanin, on the outskirts of Munich, Germany. He joined the German Communist Party during World War I, but was arrested by the Germans shortly after, and in 1928 escaped to the Soviet Union to study at the Frunze Military Academy. After graduating four years later, because he was familiar with Wang Ming, he was sent to China by the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army to collect japanese intelligence. A year later, he became a military adviser to the Red Army, but unfortunately, although he had the good intention of helping the Chinese people to liberate, he failed to do a good job.
Today, without talking about his commanders, let's talk about his two love lives in China, in fact, he had a wife before coming to China. In 1924, while working as an intelligence officer, he met a young woman named Olga Bernario, whose first marriage was over. Olga Bernario also has his own mission work, so he did not come to China with him, and Li De, who is in his thirties, has a strong desire for courtship. So soon after arriving at the troops, an embarrassing thing happened.
One day at noon, Li De was dressed and shaved clean. When he went out, he rushed to the station, and in full view of everyone, he walked up to a female group leader and said in German: You are too beautiful, I like you too much, I need you too much! It turned out that he didn't know when he had taken a fancy to this female group leader, but the women's group leader did not understand German, but just looked at him and wondered. It just so happened that the husband of the women's group came over, and her husband had studied in Germany and naturally understood German.
When he heard that the foreign consultant had actually teased his wife, he said loudly: Please respect yourself, this is my wife. Saying that he dragged his wife into the room, leaving Li De to slam the door shut, this embarrassing thing quickly spread in the Soviet area. Although Bogu was not accustomed to it after hearing about it, he still thought that it was not easy for foreign consultants to be alone in China, and life really needed to be taken care of by one person. It was difficult to match a girl named Lai Shuidi for him, but it turned out that this girl had a husband, and the marriage was ruined.
There was really no way, Bogu had to think of finding a suitable and reliable one for him from the organization and among the female comrades of the Red Army. The matter was handed over to Li Jianzhen, but after asking a few people, they all disagreed. Li Jianzhen thought left and right, thinking of her fellow villager Xiao Yuehua, she was not pretty. The level of education is not high, but it is serious and positive, and it is also very virtuous. At first, Xiao Yuehua did not agree, and Li De's previous rash behavior had long become a joke, and he was ten years older than her.
And still a foreigner, the two sides of the language barrier, Xiao Yuehua naturally did not want to marry such a person. After a few days, Li Jianzhen found Xiao Yuehua again and proposed that marrying Li De was a work need. Xiao Yuehua was silent for a while before she cried and said, "I recognize... After January 1935, she was a staunch advocate of the right line. Li De's temper became more violent, and Xiao Yuehua often endured a stomach and patiently did her husband's ideological work.
Until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xiao Yuehua mobilized her husband to go to the front line together, but Li De was afraid to go. Xiao Yuehua had to leave for Kang Da to study on her own, and after completing her studies, she went home to prepare to take what she wanted to take away, but she saw a scene that made her angry. Her husband was with Li Lilian, an actress from Tianyi Film Company, who came to Yan'an at the end of 1937. As soon as Li De saw her, he was fascinated, and Xiao Yuehua saw it with his own eyes to find out about this matter, she was also a fierce woman.
Divorce was filed immediately, even though they had been married for several years and had children. Li De, who was divorced, quickly proposed to Li Lilian, who liked his identity and fairly generous treatment, and indeed liked this frank foreigner. The two lived a sweet life after marriage for a while, and they also lived together in China for a lifetime, but the promise they made may not come true. On August 28, 1939, he temporarily received news of his return to the Soviet Union, and Li Lilian did not board the plane because she did not have a passport and visa.
When lilyly said goodbye, lily thought that he would definitely come back to pick himself up, but he did not expect to go and never came back, and Li De returned to Germany at the end of the War of Resistance. Li Lilian, who could not contact him, had no way to contact him, and she worked in Lu Xun Art Institute and other places, and died in Beijing in April 1965. In contrast, Xiao Yuehua's life is more targeted, and after she divorced Li De, she went to the front line of the War of Resistance. With long-term experience in struggle, he repeatedly disguised himself as a peasant and went deep into the Japanese army to obtain intelligence.
This woman, born in the countryside, does not have a beautiful appearance, but her heart is always very tough. With her various military achievements, her position became higher and higher, and in 1960 she was awarded the rank of colonel. He was released in 1982 and retired as a deputy military officer, and died of illness in November 1983.