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War Memorial - Geitelde, Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany


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Otto Hille
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Schütze
28 September 1916
Braunschweig (Brunswick)
27 September 1939
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13th Comp. Infantry Regiment 17
Warsaw-Czyste, Poland
Warsaw-Czyste, Poland
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Richard Meyer
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Soldat
24 August 1902
Braunschweig (Brunswick)
22 August 1944
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Area of Lisieux, France
War Cemetery St. Desir-de-Lisieux, France
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Richard Lohmann
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SchÜtze
21 June 1911
Geitelde
26 July 1942
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12th Comp. Infantry Regiment 696
At the Forest Tr. P. 217,8 east of Oserki, Russia
Oserki, Kastornoje, Russia
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Walter Goebel (No further Information)
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Helmut Gehrmann (Probably)
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Unteroffizier
02 April 1915
Broitzem, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
08 July 1941
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3, Jäger Regiment 59
Main first aid station Bortniki, Sanitätskompanie 2/92
Bortniki, Beschenkowitschi, Belarus
Death by gunshot wound and fracture of the right upper arm with vascular injury.
Muscle transection in the right lower leg.
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Richard Jäger
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Obergefreiter
06 February 1917
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
17 December 1943
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Antonowka, Belarus
War Cemetery Schtschatkowo, Belarus
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Hans Joachim Faust (Probably)
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Stabsveterinär
25 March 1913
Wenzen, Holzminden, Lower Saxony
07 October 1944
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Stab Grenadier Regiment 756
Field Hospital No. 4, Bologna, Italy
Military Cemetery Futa-Pass, Italy
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Hermann Künnecke (No further information.)
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Heinz Meilinghaus (No further information.)
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Heinz Stecher
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Matrosengefreiter
09 November 1926
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
05 October 1944
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Navy Hospital Gotenhafen (Gdynia, Poland today)
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Heinz Redlich (No further information.)
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Heinz Peters (No further information.)
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Richard Ehlers
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Feldwebel
04 May 1913
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
16 February 1942
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2nd Comp. Schützen Regiment 74
Sininka, Russia
No known grave.
Son of Friedrich August Albrecht Ehlers and Anna Ehlers, nee Wolters.
Husband of Margarethe Dorothea Fredericke Ehlers, nee Brendeke.

The loss report of the German Wehrmacht describes the position of his grave with:
Southern Rollbahn, Rosluwl to Juchnow
at a fork in the road to Fomino.

Remark: A Rollbahn is a one lane road in the Second World War. Tt described key routes designated by the German Wehrmacht, for example, the route Moscow-Minsk-Brest (now highway No. 1).

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Otto Erich Richard Köchy
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Obergefreiter
20 November 1913
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
22 March 1943
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6th Grenadier Regiment 487
Bol'shaya Kamenka, Russia
Utrikowo, Spas, Russia
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Otto Frehe
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Gefreiter
19 March 1909
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
05 June 1944
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Bogomolowo, Russia
Morosow, Pskow, Russia
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Gerhard Hogrefe
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Oberleutnant
11 March 1914
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
17 March 1945
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Fortress Kolberg (Kołobrzeg, Poland today)
Kołobrzeg, Poland
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Hans Georg Otto Heinrich Hogrefe
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Leutnant
16 May 1919
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
16 October 1946
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Vrsac, Serbia, prisoner of war camp
Vrsac, Serbia
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Hermann Rosenbruch (No further information)
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Günter Cours (Probably)
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No information
20 June 1911

01 December 1942
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Stalingrad, Russia (Wolgograd, Russia today)
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Gustav Kramer (No further information)
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Kurt Winkler
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Feldwebel
29 January 1914
Geitelde, Brunswick (Braunschweig)
20 August 1943
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4th Comp. Div. Battalion 267
Kamenez, Russia
War Cemetery Kursk-Besedino, Russia
Kurt Winkler was probably transferred to the Kursk-Besedino war cemetery as an unknown soldier.
Direct hit by a anti-tank gun (PAK).
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Karl Plagge (Probably)
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Obergefreiter
03 March 1909
Meine, Gifhorn
04 August 1942
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5th Comp. Infantry Regiment 336
Michalkino, Russia
Michalkino, Russia
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Gebhard Plünnecke (No further information)
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Hermann Weiland (No further information)
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Kurt Fuhlbrügge (Probably)
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Obergefreiter
30 October 1918
Emmerstedt, Helmstedt
16 October 1943
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10th Comp. Grenadier Regiment 57
Nowo-Muntal, Ukraine

Son of Gustav Fühlbrügge.
Kurt Fuhlbrügge was probably transferred to the Kropyvnytskyi war cemetery as an unknown soldier.
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Josef Gohlisch (No further information)
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Helmut Teichmann (No further information)
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Karl Landres (No further information)
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Paul Evers (No further information)
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Richard Tauber (No further information)
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Helmut Tauber (No further information)
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Walter Langer (No further information)
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Richard Räschke (No further information)
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Wilhelm Engel (No further information)
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Richard Bartz
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15 February 1913

01 November 1942
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Area Wjelikije Luki, Russia

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Otto Jäger (No further information)
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Hermann Fricke (No further information)
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Heini Helms (No further information)
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Albert Ehlers (No further information)
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Otto Krohne (Probably)
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19 June 1920

01 January 1945
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Wilhelm Winkler (No further information)
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Gustav Weber (No further information)
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Gustav Tönnies (No further information)
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Adolf Kauf (Probably)
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02 February 1906

01 August 1942
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Russia

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Reinhold ???mann (Not to identify)
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Herbert Schmidt (No further information)
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Alfred Kosmala (Probably)
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05 April 1922

13 June 1944
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Manuskini near Opotschka, Russia

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Otto Almstedt from Geitelde
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27 February 1894

7 July 1915
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Albert Ehlers
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24 April 1899

01 April 1918




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Richard Fricke (Probably)
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Musketier
08 August 1894

15 August 1915 (Volksbund: 16 August 1915)
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Infanterie Regiment 373
4th Field Hospital
War Cemetery Lens-Sallaumines, France
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Otto Hirte (Not to identify)
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Wilhelm Hirte (No further information.)
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28 February 1891

30 March 1916
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Karl(?) Künneke (No further information.)
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10 February 1896

02 September 1915




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Hermann Lohmann (No further information.)
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??? Peters (Not to identify)
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Gustav Rütro?? (No to identify.)
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Albert Stecher (No to identify.)
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Albert Sukopp (No to identify.)
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Otto Wolter (Probably)
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Wehrmann
26 August 1885

27 May 1918
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War Cemetery Dourges, France
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Willi Ziehr (No further information.)
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19 October 1895

18 November 1916




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