German War Graves in Canada

German War Grave Registry for Canada

POW Surnames from G to K

There are 45 names listed on this page in alphabetical order.

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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)

 

Gäse, Ernst

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME25177
DOB: 14.6.16
DOD: 26.6.45
Age: 29
COD: Drowned
Disinterment: Pigeon Timber Company Camp 76, Neys, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-12

 

Gast, K.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 22.5.16
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-16

 

Gregorius, Wilhelm

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME32729
DOB: 6.10.21
DOD: 3.5.46
Age: 26
COD: Fractured skull and brain laceration from falling tree
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-12

 

Grooham, W.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 14.7.15  I.M.
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-10

 

Grote, Ewald

Rank: Soldat
Prisoner No.: ME056320
DOB: 9.4.23
DOD: 28.1.45
Age: 21
COD: Heart attack
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-13

 

Günther, Karl-Heinz

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME10631
DOB: 11.3.17
DOD: 4.5.45
Age: 28
COD: Accidental Drowning
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-13

 

Hagen, Walter

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 522117
DOB: 3.12.26
DOD: 22.4.45
Age: 18
COD: Fatally injured by falling tree
Disinterment: St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-9

 

Hagenauer, John

Rank:
Prisoner No.: B-1004
DOB:
DOD: 21.4.43
Age:
COD: General paralysis
Disinterment: Fredericton Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Notes:
Location: R1-18

 

Halbig, Alfred

Rank:
Prisoner No.: In1/77
DOB: 10.6.02
DOD: 28.6.44
Age: 42
COD: Result of injuries sustained in suicide attempt
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-16

 

Halfbrodt, Wilhelm

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: 14076
DOB: 19.5.21
DOD: 18.12.43
Age: 22
COD: Pulmonary tuberculosis
Disinterment: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
Notes:
Location: R1-13

 

Harle, Paul

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 526029
DOB: 8.8.03
DOD: 8.1.45
Age: 41
COD: General carcinomatosis
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R3-1

 

Harms, H.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 14.1.19
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-16

 

Hartmann, H.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 8.11.18
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-7

 

Hartwig, Alfred Gustav Heinrich

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 15872
DOB: 7.2.21
DOD: 12.3.45
Age: 24
COD: Ruptured appendix
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-17

 

Hausen, Josef

Rank: Oberschütze
Prisoner No.: ME32502
DOB: 28.6.08
DOD: 10.3.44
Age: 35
COD: Cardiac infection
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-8

 

Hegerhorst, Carl Johann Georg

Rank: Ingenieur 2 Klasse
Prisoner No.: 13736
DOB: 11.7.90
DOD: 29.5.41
Age: 50
COD: Suicide by hanging
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-6

 

Heimowski, B.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 2.12.18
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-1

 

Heinecke, Hans-Joachim

Rank: Korvettenkapitän
Prisoner No.: 53542
DOB: 26.9.07
DOD: 12.5.46
Age: 38
COD: Acute collapse of circulation
Disinterment: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
Notes: Officer under instruction on U-111 (crew member of captured U-boat)
Location: R1-14

 

Held, Rudolf

Rank: Heizer
Prisoner No.: 13424
DOB: 8.11.98
DOD: 23.3.43
Age: 44
COD: Bronco-pneumonia
Disinterment: Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-3

 

Heyse, E.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 1.9.16  I.M.
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-10

 

Hippacher, Georg

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME038277
DOB: 18.4.20
DOD: 12.7.45
Age: 25
COD: Drowned
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-9

 

von Holdt, Johannes

Rank: Oberzahlmeister
Prisoner No.: 13068
DOB: 12.4.85
DOD: 7.8.43
Age: 58
COD: Angina pectoris
Disinterment: Espanola Public Cemetery, Espanola, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-11

 

Holtz, Walter Georg Ernst

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 40030
DOB: 24.12.92
DOD: 1.11.44
Age: 51
COD: Infarction mycardial failure
Disinterment: Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-17

 

Huber, Ludwig

Rank: Stabfeldwebel
Prisoner No.: 516220
DOB: 17.7.04
DOD: 28.6.45
Age: 40
COD: Heart failure
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R3-1

 

Irrgang, Günther

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 562646
DOB: 20.5.26
DOD: 25.1.46
Age: 19
COD: Massive hemorrhage
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-14

 

Jacobs, J.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 29.6.19
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-17

 

Jenne, W.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 9.11.18
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-7

 

John, Hans Dieter

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 19293
DOB: 2.10.19
DOD: 4.5.41
Age: 23
COD: Manic depressive psychosis
Disinterment: Mountain View Cememetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R3-12

 

Jonischkeit, O.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 21.7.16
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-17

 

Kahr, Siegfried

Rank: Schütze
Prisoner No.: 10902
DOB: 25.5.12
DOD: 30.5.45
Age: 33
COD: Accidental drowning
Disinterment: St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-9

 

Kaiser, Otto

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME32551
DOB: 28.5.21
DOD: 10.8.45
Age: 24
COD: Pulmonary tuberculosis
Disinterment: City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R4-9

 

Karg, Karl

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME038047
DOB: 17.12.19
DOD: 20.6.44
Age: 24
COD: Drowned
Disinterment: Sioux Lookout Public Cemetery, Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-3

 

Keck, K. J.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 18.6.17
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-1

 

Kehr, Hubert

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: 526751
DOB: 23.11.04
DOD: 22.2.46
Age: 41
COD: Generalized peridontitis
Disinterment: Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
Notes:
Location: R3-2

 

Keller, Alexander

Rank: Oberfeldwebel
Prisoner No.: 19275
DOB: 24.2.14
DOD: 9.5.42
Age: 28
COD: Fractured skull (accident)
Disinterment: Espanola Public Cemetery, Espanola, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-11

 

Kienzle, Gustav Adolf

Rank:
Prisoner No.: 13063
DOB:
DOD: 24.2.45
Age:
COD: Heart attack
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-6

 

Kohnemann, E.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 17.6.15
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R4-1

 

Kolbel, Johann

Rank: Soldat
Prisoner No.: ME043215
DOB: 19.12.21
DOD: 12.6.43
Age: 21
COD: Tumour of the brain
Disinterment: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
Notes:
Location: R1-14

 

Konopka, Karl

Rank: Matrose
Prisoner No.: BP-963
DOB: 22.3.91
DOD: 13.1.45
Age: 53
COD: Pneumonia
Disinterment: Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-8

 

Krings, Hubert

Rank: Gefreiter
Prisoner No.: 33766
DOB: 14.3.10
DOD: 23.3.46
Age: 36
COD: Shock (fracture of pelvis – other internal injuries)
Disinterment: St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R1-10

 

Kroehnert, Curt

Rank:
Prisoner No.: BP-962
DOB: 23.11.17
DOD: 14.9.43
Age: 27
COD: Toxic catarrhal jaundice with nephritis
Disinterment: Cataraqui Cemetery, Cataraqui, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-4

 

Kröger, Wilhelm

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.:
DOB: 21.1.08
DOD: 11.7.46  I.M.
Age: 38
COD:
Disinterment: Mortlach Cemetery, Mortlach, Saskatchewan
Notes: Saskatchewan Department of Statistics has no record of Kröger having ever been buried at the Mortlach Cemetery.
Location: R3-9

 

Kruckan, A.

Rank:
Prisoner No.:
DOB:
DOD: 12.2.20  I.M.
Age:
COD:
Disinterment:
Notes:
Location: R5-11

 

Krumb, Ludwig

Rank: Obergefreiter
Prisoner No.: ME10107
DOB: 29.11.14
DOD: 11.7.45
Age: 30
COD: Suicide by hanging
Disinterment: Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R2-14

 

Küttner, Friedrich

Rank: Oberfeldwebel
Prisoner No.: 19023
DOB: 10.6.13
DOD: 2.7.44
Age: 31
COD: Accidental drowning
Disinterment: Rock Mount Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Notes:
Location: R3-18

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