Manfred Stern

Manfred Stern
Manfred Stern
Nicknames	"General Kléber"; "Savior of Madrid"
Born	January 1896; Duchy of Bukovina, Austria-Hungary
Died	18 February 1954 (aged 58); Ozerlag labor camp, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Austria-Hungary (1914-1917); Russian SFSR (1917-1921); Far Eastern Republic (1921-1922); Soviet Union (1922-1939); Jiangxi Soviet (1932-1935); Second Spanish Republic (1936-1938);
Branch	Austro-Hungarian Army (1914-1917); Soviet Red Army (1917-1924); GRU (1924-1939); Chinese Red Army (1932-1935); Spanish Republican Army (1936-1938);
Service years	1914-1939
Conflicts	World War One; Russian Civil War; Chinese Civil War; Spanish Civil War;

Manfred (Moses) Stern (Russian: Манфред (Мойше) Штерн; also known as Emilio Kléber, Lazar Stern, Moishe Stern, Mark Zilbert; 1896–1954) was a member of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence. He served as a spy in the United States, as a military advisor in China, and gained fame under his nom de guerre as General Kléber, leader of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.