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War Cemetery - Butzbach-Nieder Weisel, Hesse, Germany
Soldatenfriedhof - Butzbach-Nieder Weisel, Hessen, Deutschland




1945

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War Cemetery Butzbach-Nieder Weisel

In this cemetery lie 534 victims of the Second World War (1939-1945).
435 German soldiers and civilians, and 99 foreigners.
The military cemetery was erected by an undertaker unit of the U.S. Army in April 1945. This cemetery served as basis for the later war memorial cemetery. Fallen American and German soldiers were buried here. The deceased had been killed in fighting in the Hesse-Thuringia border area between Suhl and Kassel and were transported on empty supply vehicles of the American Army to this central cemetery. In August 1945 all U.S. soldiers (nearly 900 fallen) were exhumed and most of them brought to France.
In addition to the original 493 mostly German dead, lay in the adjacent northern site 109 foreign war dead. In 1957 followed the transfer of the mortal remains into a common war cemetery.
The majorities of the Soviet and Polish war dead were prisoners of war and died during captivity or by air raids during their use as forced labourers at the river Ruhr region.
Among them are 44 unknown and 30 known Soviet war dead whose date of death is registered as the 23rd April 1945.
Later, Soviet and Polish prisoners of war and/or forced laborers from the district Friedberg were transferred to this war cemetery. Among the victims of war is a Polish woman and a Belgian.
The war cemetery was arranged by the German War Graves Commission in 1952 and the arrangement fully carried out with funding from the Federal Government and the Government of Hesse in 1957 and 1969.

Never again war!               For peace and international understanding!

The Magistrate of the city of Butzbach


Butzbach Cemetery Butzbach Cemetery Butzbach Cemetery
Stone panel with names Stone panel with names Several stone plates are erected
in the cemetery. Unfortunately
not readable.

A few of the graves in this cemetery:

Unknown German Soldier Unknown Soviet Soldier
An unknown German Soldier
† 11 April 1945
An unknown Soviet Soldier
† 23 April 1945

Martin Joedicke Martin Joedicke
∗ 10 November 1927
† 06 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
† 11 April 1945
born in Walkenried/Harz

Willy Kurz Willy Kurz
∗ 29 September 1926
† 07 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Bernhardt Ebert Bernhardt Ebert
∗ 09 September 1901
† 08 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Leopold Stiefsohn Leopold Stiefsohn
∗ 30 August 1927
† 08 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Hermann Hagedorn Hermann Hagedorn
∗ 25 October 1925
† 08 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Wolfgang Hoffmann Wolfgang Hoffmann
∗ 19 September 1927
† 08 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Hyronimus Seitz Hyronimus Seitz
∗ 12 December 1893
† 09 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Alfred Wartmann Alfred Wartmann
∗ 28 July 1920
† 09 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
born in Nottleben, Thuringia

Viktor Scholl Viktor Scholl
∗ 27 October 1920
† 10 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Reinhardt Schrodt Reinhardt Schrodt
∗ 17 March 1904
† 10 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
born in Apolda, Thuringia

Hugo Fahle Hugo Fahle
∗ 13 April 1928
† 10 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
no further information

Johann Czycholl Johann Czycholl
∗ 26 June 1899
† 11 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
Johann Rudolf Czycholl
born in Gelsenkirchen

Erich Baumbach Erich Baumbach
∗ 22 December 1900
† 18 April 1945
German Wargrave Commission:
born in Schmalkalden, Thuringia



A stone tablet commemorates the fallen Russian soldiers.


Stone tablet Stone tablet Stone tablet
Hier ruhen russische
Kriegsgefangene die
in der schweren Zeit
fern von ihrer Heimat
starben
1941 - 1945 Here rest Russian
prisoners of war
who died far from
their home during
dire straits.

N. Merkow N. Merkow
Soviet Russian
† 23 April 1945
No further information

S. Paschkow S. Paschkow
Soviet Russian
† 23 April 1945
No further information

Wassili Reschetow Wassili Reschetow
Soviet Russian
† 23 April 1945
No further information

S. Olifirenko S. Olifirenko
Soviet Russian
† 23 April 1945
No further information


Victims from Belgium and Poland are also buried here.


Leon A. G. Danau Leon A. G. Danau
Belgian
† 16 April 1945
No further information

Josef Czerwinsky Josef Czerwinsky
Polish
∗ 22 March 1924
† 29 March 1944
No further information

Janie Milczarek Janie Milczarek
Polish Woman
∗ 28 April 1924
† 11 September 1944
No further information


Some graves of the victims are decorated in honourable memory by relatives.


Bernhardt Tölle Bernhardt Tölle
∗ 26 November 1914
† 22 April 1945
No further information




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