Alexander Ivanovich Utvenko (Russian: Александр Иванович Утвенко; 12 December 1905 – 20 August 1963) was a Red Army Lieutenant general.
 Utvenko became a Red Army officer in the interwar period and was given command of a division after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
 He fought in the Battle of Smolensk (1941), the Yelnya Offensive and the Battle of Moscow.
 In December 1941 he was wounded and after taking the Vystrel courses was given command of the 274th Rifle Division in May 1942.
 Utvenko took command of the 33rd Guards Rifle Division in August and led that division in the Battle of Stalingrad.
 In April 1943 he became commander of the 31st Guards Rifle Corps and led it in the Donbass Strategic Offensive (August 1943).
 In the spring of 1944 he began an accelerated course at the Military Academy of the General Staff.
 After graduating in early 1945 he became commander of the 38th Guards Rifle Corps which fought in the Vienna Offensive and Prague Offensive in the last months of the war.
 Postwar Utvenko continued to command the corps which in the summer of 1946 became an airborne unit.
 He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff and became commander of the 65th Rifle Corps.
 During the early 1950s he served in positions at the Frunze Military Academy and retired in 1954.
Stephen J. Townsend is a United States Army officer who currently commands Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve and the XVIII Airborne Corps.
 Townsend served with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 7th Infantry Division, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the 78th Infantry Division, and the 10th Mountain Division.
 He fought in Operation Urgent Fury, Operation Just Cause, and Operation Uphold Democracy.
 With the 10th Mountain Division, he served in the War in Afghanistan, leading a task force in Operation Anaconda.
 Townsend became commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, leading it in the Battle of Baqubah in the Iraq War.
 Townsend became commander of the 10th Mountain Division in the War in Afghanistan.
 In May 2015 he became commander of XVIII Airborne Corps, and in late August 2016 took command of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve.
The son of an Imperial Russian Army officer, Kuibyshev joined the army and fought in World War I.
 Kuibyshev joined the Red Army in 1918 and became commander of the 3rd and 9th Rifle Divisions on the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War.
 During the 1920s, Kuibyshev commanded a corps, courses for Red Army commanders, the group of Soviet advisors in China, and the Main Directorate of the Red Army, and the Siberian Military District.
 He became secretary for Rabkrin, the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, and a member of the Party Control Commission during the 1930s.
 Kuibyshev became commander of the Transcaucasian Military District in 1937.
 During the Great Purge, he was arrested in February 1938 and executed in August.
 Kuibyshev was posthumously pardoned in 1956.
After graduating from a course at the Frunze Military Academy, he was chief of staff of the Southwestern Front composite border detachment during its retreat across Ukraine after Operation Barbarossa.
 In February 1942 he became commander of the 371st Rifle Division and fought in the Battles of Rzhev.
 In February 1943 Oleshev was promoted to Major general and became commander of the 36th Rifle Corps from May.
 He led the corps during Operation Suvorov and Operation Bagration.
 After the capture of Minsk he was appointed the city's military commandant and oversaw cleanup operations in the city.
 He then became the commander of the 113th Rifle Corps and led it during the Baltic Offensive and East Prussian Offensive.
 Oleshev was promoted to lieutenant general in early May.
 During the summer the corps transferred to the Far East and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August.
 For his leadership in the offensive Oleshev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (] ; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party.
 As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler and a co-founder of the "Sturmabteilung " (SA, "Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party's militia, and later was its commander.
 By 1934, the German Army feared the SA's influence and Hitler had come to see Röhm as a potential rival, so he was executed during the Night of the Long Knives.
Anatoly Iosifovich Petrakovsky (Russian: Анатолий Иосифович Петраковский; 28 December 1901 – 3 September 1969) was a Ukrainian Soviet Army major general and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 After joining the Red Army in 1922, Petrakovsky became an officer and rose through the ranks.
 On the eve of the Winter War, he was a battalion commander in the 13th Rifle Division.
 Petrakovsky was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his leadership of the battalion.
 After Operation Barbarossa, he became commander of the 395th Rifle Division.
 He led the division during the Battle of Rostov and the Battle of Voronezh but was relieved of command due to a "systemic failure to comply with orders".
 In August 1943, Petrakovsky became commander of the 57th Rifle Corps but lost command of the corps and was sent to hospital to receive treatment for an illness.
 After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff, he was appointed deputy commander of 16th Army and participated in the Invasion of South Sakhalin.
 Postwar, Petrakovsky served in various staff positions and retired in 1956.
General Sir John Monash, ( ; 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was a civil engineer and an Australian military commander of the First World War.
 He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the war and then, shortly after its outbreak, became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt, with whom he took part in the Gallipoli campaign.
 In July 1916 he took charge of the newly raised 3rd Division in northwestern France and in May 1918 became commander of the Australian Corps, at the time the largest corps on the Western Front.
 The successful Allied attack at the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918, which expedited the end of the war, was planned by Monash and spearheaded by British forces including the Australian and Canadian Corps under Monash and Arthur Currie.
 Monash is considered one of the best Allied generals of the First World War and the most famous commander in Australian history.
Viktor Lutze (28 December 1890 – 2 May 1943) was the commander of the "Sturmabteilung"  ("SA") succeeding Ernst Röhm as "Stabschef".
 He died from injuries received in a car accident.
 Lutze was given an elaborate state funeral in Berlin on 7 May 1943.
Pyotr Georgyevich Novikov (Russian: Пётр Георгиевич Новиков ; 18 December 1907 – August 1944) was a Red Army major general.
 Novikov fought in the Spanish Civil War as a battalion commander.
 After returning to the Soviet Union he fought in the Winter War.
 After the end of the Winter War Novikov became commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division.
 He led the division in battles on the Southern Front.
 The division became the 109th Rifle Division and fought in the Siege of Sevastopol.
 After the evacuation of Filipp Oktyabrsky and Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Novikov became commander of the Sevastopol defense.
 Novikov attempted to evacuate the city on a patrol boat and was intercepted and captured by German forces.
 He was sent to concentration camps in Germany and died at Flossenbürg concentration camp in August 1944.
Nikolay Timofeyevich Antoshkin (Russian: Николай Тимофеевич Антошкин ; born 19 December 1942) is a retired Mokshan Russian Air Force colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union and politician.
 Born in 1942 in Bashkortostan, Antoshkin was drafted into the Soviet Army in August 1961.
 After graduating from military aviation school, he served with reconnaissance aviation units.
 He became commander of the Air Force of the 20th Guards Army in May 1980.
 After graduation from the Military Academy of the General Staff, Antoshkin became commander of the Air Force and deputy commander of the Central Group of Forces.

Question: Viktor Lutze became commander of the Sturmabteilung after succeeding a man who was executed in what event?
Answer: Night of the Long Knives