Max

Max Fremery, born 05-05-1889, only a few weeks after Adolf Hitler (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know), in Cologne, Rheinland, joined the Army on 21-03-1910, age 20, as a Fahnenjunker in the 7^th Dragoner-Regiment. He participated in World War I and was allowed in the new Reichswehr, meanwhile a Rittmeister. On 01-04-1937 promoted to Oberst and with the outbreak of World War II he was the commander of the 480^th Infantry Regiment. On 26-10-1940 he became the commander of the 18^th Schützen-Brigade. On 01-06-1941 he was promoted to Major General. Fremery was the commander of the 29^th Infantry Division, a motorized division, on 29-12-1941 and received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Fremery was also on the battlefields of Stalingrad with 29^th Division next to famous Generals as, Bruno Ritter von Hauenschild (see Hauenschild), Karl Hollidt (see Hollidt), and Werner Kempf (see Kempf). He lands in the Führer Reserve from 29-09-1942 until 01-10-1942 and assigned as Wehrmacht Commander of Hannover, to 05-04-1943. He become s a Lieutenant General on 01-06-1943 and gets the command of the 155^th Replacement Panzer Division, on 01-10-1943, until the division was abolished in April 1944. Again in the infamous Reserve from 10-05-1944 until 20-05-1944 and took the command of the 233^rd Panzer Division. With the 233^rd he lands in captivity on 08-05-1945 and was released in July 1947. Retiring in Krün after the war,  he died at the age of 79, on 20-09-1968 and is buried with his wife Clare, born Grundtmann, who died age 84 on 03-01-1982, on the Stadfriedhof of Krün, next to the graves of the Generals, Heinz Herre (see Herre) and Georg Graf von Rittberg (see Rittberg).