German War Graves in Canada

German War Grave Registry for Canada

POW Surnames from A to F

There are 44 names listed on this page in alphabetical order.

Clicking on a grave location link will allow you to see an image of that person’s grave marker. If there is any additional information available on the person here, clicking on the name will open their relevant history page.

DOB = Date of Birth (day.month.year)
DOD = Date of Death (day.month.year)
COD = Cause of Death
Disinterment = POW’s original burial location
Location = Location of POW’s grave at the Woodland German War Graves Section (see map)

Ackermann, Hans Willi

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 19906
DOB: 18.2.20
DOD: 17.6.42
Age: 22
COD: Pulmonary tuberculosis
Disinterment: Espanola Public Cemetery, Espanola, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-10

 

Albrecht, E.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 8.11.19
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-5

 

Albrecht, Franz

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: A85638
DOB: 27.8.14
DOD: 15.11.45
Age: 31
COD: Pneumonectomy
Disinterment: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
Notes:
Location: R1-15

 

Andersen, Bernhard

Rank: Unteroffizier
Prisoner No.: A833845
DOB: 26.10.12
DOD: 19.9.45
Age: 32
COD: Diabetes
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-17

 

Aussem, Peter

Rank: St. Strm.
Prisoner No.: 37201
DOB: 7.11.07
DOD: 17.12.45
Age: 38
COD: Suicide
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-6

 

Baaske, Max Ernst Rudolf

Rank:
Prisoner No.: BK-188
DOB: 6.7.82
DOD: 12.1.43
Age: 60
COD: Carcinoma of the bowel (cancer)
Disinterment: Fredericton Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Notes:
Location: R1-18

 

Bach, Wilhelm

Rank: Major
Prisoner No.: ME25908
DOB: 5.11.92 (Oberöwisheim, Germany)
DOD: 22.12.42 (Toronto, Canada)
Age: 50
COD: Cancer
Disinterment: Mickle Memorial Cemetery, Gravenhurst, Ontario
Notes: Actual rank was Oberstleutnant (promoted posthumously). Bach was also a POW during the First World War in England. His original grave marker from Gravenhurst was moved to Woodland (see Monument & Alcove page).
Location: R3-12

 

von Bardeleben, Hermann Adolf

Rank: Kapitän
Prisoner No.: 13688
DOB: 17.5.82
DOD: 3.6.43
Age: 61
COD: Myocarial failure (heart attack)
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-4

 

Bartum, Franz

Rank: Ingenieur 3 Klasse
Prisoner No.: 338
DOB: 9.1.88
DOD: 30.11.44
Age: 56
COD: Suspected heart attack
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-7

 

Bastuck, Alois

Rank: Feldwebel
Prisoner No.: 24064
DOB: 7.3.15
DOD: 9.2.46
Age: 30
COD: Oedena of the lungs, natural stenosis
Disinterment: Mountain View Cememetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-7

 

Becher, K.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 25.8.16
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-14

 

Becker, Richard

Rank: Schütze
Prisoner No.: ME042455
DOB: 24.9.20
DOD: 3.5.45
Age: 24
COD: Drowned while canoeing
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-8

 

Berger, Wilhelm

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 13153
DOB: 2.1.84
DOD: 17.3.42
Age: 58
COD: Hypertensive heart disease
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-4

 

Bergter, Wolfgang

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 562439
DOB: 28.4.26
DOD: 26.5.45
Age: 19
COD: Perished in bush
Disinterment: Lake of the Woods Cemetery, Kenora, Ontario
Notes: Escaped his prison camp on 12.11.44 – DOD is the day Bergter’s body was found over six months later.
Location: R2-3

 

Blase, Karl Heinrich

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 13248
DOB: 11.8.07
DOD: 8.12.45
Age: 37
COD: Carcinoma (cancer)
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-5

 

Bockwoldt, Fritz

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 13073
DOB: 12.4.15
DOD: 9.6.45
Age: 30
COD: Undulent fever
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-13

 

Böhmer, Hugo

Rank: Kapitän
Prisoner No.: 244551
DOB: 2.9.91
DOD: 14.3.46
Age: 54
COD: Bilateral lobular pneumonia
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-5

 

Börner, Heinz

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 14285
DOB: 25.3.06
DOD: 29.7.41
Age: 35
COD: Diabetic coma
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-8

 

Bothe, Carl Hermann

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME168660
DOB: 18.7.10
DOD: 1.11.44
Age: 34
COD: Strangulation by hanging – suicide
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-18

 

Brandherm, Franz

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: 20137
DOB: 13.12.22
DOD: 10.1.45
Age: 22
COD: Accidentally killed by falling tree
Disinterment: Roman Catholic Cemetery, Pembroke, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-7

 

Brehm, Hans

Rank: Unteroffizier
Prisoner No.: A844781
DOB: 7.1.15
DOD: 7.3.46
Age: 31
COD: Accidentally killed
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-14

 

Brexendorf, Herbert

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 45069
DOB: 23.5.23
DOD: 28.7.43
Age: 20
COD: Pulmonary tuberculosis
Disinterment: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
Notes:
Location: R1-13

Broll, Theodor

Rank: Stabgefreiter
Prisoner No.: A938335
DOB: 8.9.13
DOD: 29.3.45
Age: 31
COD: Hydrocephalus
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-18

 

Burmeister, Heinrich

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 13786
DOB: 12.2.73
DOD: 26.1.44
Age: 70
COD: Suicide by hanging
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-14

 

Busch, Heinrich

Rank: Feldwebel
Prisoner No.: 60784
DOB: 22.6.16
DOD: 18.12.46
Age: 30
COD: Hanged for murder of fellow prisoner of war
Disinterment: Prison Yard, Lethbridge Jail, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-15

 

Claus, F.

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Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 24.6.15
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-14

 

Clement, A.

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Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 1.6.15
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-15

 

Dennersmann, Heinrich Georg Wilhelm

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 13397
DOB: 3.9.87
DOD: 2.2.44
Age: 56
COD: Bronchogenic carcinoma of left lung
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-15

 

Doring, O.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 1.6.17
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-6

 

Dreissig, Günter

Rank: Leutnant
Prisoner No.: 56934
DOB: 20.7.23
DOD: 30.3.46
Age: 22
COD: Pulmonary tuberculosis
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-9

 

Ehlers, Wilhelm Friedrich

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 7058
DOB: 12.5.14
DOD: 22.9.41
Age: 27
COD: Coronary occlusion
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-9

 

Eimler, Johannes

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 56084
DOB: 1.8.21
DOD: 3.5.44
Age: 22
COD: Drowning
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-15

 

Endress, Johann

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME037695
DOB: 19.11.19
DOD: 19.6.45
Age: 25
COD: Killed by falling tree
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-16

 

Engelland, Juergen

Rank: Oberschütze
Prisoner No.: ME25243
DOB: 13.3.20
DOD: 5.8.45
Age: 25
COD: Drowned
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-10

 

Ertz, Erich

Rank: Okan.? (Soldat)
Prisoner No.: 16627
DOB: 8.7.14
DOD: 3.6.41
Age: 26
COD: Uraemia
Disinterment: Mickle Memorial Cemetery, Gravenhurst, Ontario
Notes: Original grave marker is also at Woodland (see Monument & Alcove page).
Location: R3-13

 

Feig, Walter

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: 526906
DOB: 2.7.21
DOD: 21.7.45
Age: 24
COD: Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-19

 

Fischbeck, August

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: 574248
DOB: 24.8.06
DOD: 6.12.45
Age: 39
COD: Head injuries
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-10

 

Fleck, Walter

Rank: Oberschütze
Prisoner No.: 16762
DOB: 25.4.10
DOD: 25.12.44
Age: 34
COD: Suspected heart attack
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-7

 

Fliesen, Friedrich

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME10420
DOB: 7.7.18
DOD: 13.11.44
Age: 26
COD: Acute intestinal obstruction
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes: Corporal Friedrich Fliesen was a young man at the outbreak of World War II. Caught up in a maelstrom of conflicting political wills, Fliesen is just one reminder the ultimate sacrifice that was made by millions of combatants on both sides of the war. Like so many of his generation, Fliesen would never return home.

He is also a reminder of the sacrifices made by those who outlived the war’s victims.

Fliesen was initially buried at the Hillside Cemetery outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta.  His grieving mother spent two weeks one summer during the mid-’50s in Medicine Hat. She spent every day visiting the grave of her son, and had been forced to sell everything that she owned to pay for the trip. 

Fliesen’s mother would make one more trip to Canada. In 1971 she returned as a guest of the German government for the opening ceremony of Woodland Cemetery’s German War Graves Section.


Location: R4-19

 

Förster, Gerhard

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME038772
DOB: 28.12.19
DOD: 1.2.45
Age: 27
COD: Fractured skull (killed by falling tree)
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-11

 

Fortmann, J.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 8.1.19
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-15

 

Frahm, Klaus

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME25132
DOB: 7.8.13
DOD: 22.10.44
Age: 31
COD: Strangulation – suicide
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-11

 

Frede, Max

Rank: Obermaschinenmaat
Prisoner No.: 37226
DOB: 6.5.13
DOD: 5.11.40
Age: 27
COD: Pneumonia and lung abscess
Disinterment: Espanola Public Cemetery, Espanola, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-10

 

Freyer, Gottfried

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME036090
DOB: 19.10.19
DOD: 10.7.45
Age: 25
COD: Lymphoblastoma
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-8

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