Baier, Albrecht, born on 28-07-1893 in Frankfurt am Main,
where Anna Frank
was born, entered the Army on 24-02-1913 as a Fahnenjunker with the 3th Field Artillery Regiment, age 19 and in the fields of the war with the 64th Field Artillery Brigade. He ended the war as an Oberleutnant and Battery Leader in the Field Artillery Regiment. After the end of war he was Battery Chief of the Artillerie-Battalion “Hederich” in the Freikorps “Hülsen”.
after Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf von Hülsen (20 April 1865 – 21 April 1950)
who was a German WWI Generalleutnant. Hülsen formed the Freikorps (von) Hülsen, a paramilitary unit which participated in the suppression of the Spartacist League in Berlin.




Baier is reactivated on 01-02-1932 as Battery Chief of the 3rd Artillerie-Regiment and promoted to Major on 01-02-1933. With the start of Second War II he is in the infamous Führer Reserve
, as an Oberst. From 06-09-1939 he is appointed as Chief of Staff of the Military Commander in Posen to 26-10-1939. (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) (see Alois Hitler)















Death and burial ground of Baier, Albrecht.



Released in 1947 he lived in Weinheim, the same town where the Generals Wilhelm Fox and Wolfgang Pickert lived and died, Baier passed away at the age of 59, on 17-01-1953. Generalleutnant der Artillerie, Albrecht Baier, is buried with his wife Ruth, born Brumms, who died old age 96, on 04-06-1993, in Weinheim on the town cemetery, nearby the graves of Generalmajor der Infanterie, Artillerie Kommandant 30th Korps, Wilhelm Fox and General der Flakartillerie, Kommandeur der General III Flakkorps,

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