Brühl, Ferdinand, born on 09-11-1896 in Eltville, Rhine Region,
in a nobel family
, only seven months after Adolf Hitler (did you know)
(see Hitler Paula)
(see William Hitler). He entered the Army as a Fahnenjunker, with the 44th Triersche Field Artillery Regiment, on 17-04-1914, age 17, three months before the outbreak of World War I. Transferred to the Regiment Staff of the 44th to 07-02-1915, as a Leutnant. Brühl participated in World War I on the Western Front
as Battery Officer in the 1st Battery of the 44th to 28-01-1916 and Battery Officer in the 5th Battery of the 44th Regiment. Ordinance Officer with the Regiment’s Staff of the 44th Regiment to 27-02-191. Adjutant in the Staff of Artillery Commander 214 until 21-11-1917. Taken ill in hospital and transferred to the Replacement Battalion of the 7th Foot Artillery Battalion to 07-12-1917. He ends the war in the General Command of the VIII Army Corps under command of General Karl Georg Albrecht Ernst von Hake
, as 1st Ordinance Officer and was separated from the Army on 30-08-1919. He was accepted again in the fast growing Reichswehr
on 01-10-1934 as a Hauptmann and came to the Artillery Regiment in Münster. With the beginning of WWII he is the commander of the III Battalion of the 26th Artillery Regiment to 01-11-1940. Commander of the 198th of the III Battalion of the 107th Artillery Regiment until 20-06-1941. He then was engaged in the invasion of the Soviet Union from 22-06-1941, with the 198th Artillery Regiment, under General der Infanterie, Martin Gareis














Death and burial ground of Brühl, Ferdinand.

Ferdinand Brühl lived until his death at the age of 71, on 09-04-1968, in Aschaffenburg. Ferdinand Brühl is buried on the Waldfriedhof of Aschaffenburg with his wife Annemarie Brühl, born Merrem, who died at the very old age of 101, on 18-06-1997.


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