Bürcky, Heinrich “Heinz”.

Bürcky, Heinrich “Heinz”, born on 23-07-1895, in Frankenthal, Pfalz, Heinrich Bürcky’s parents were Jacob Bürcky and his wife Elisabeth (birth name Gettert). His father came from Albisheim (Pfrimm), where the family settled as Mennonite migrants from Switzerland at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Jacob was a teacher at the Karolinen-Gymnasium in Frankenthal. Heinrich Bürcky attended primary school in Frankenthal and graduated in 1914 from the humanistic gymnasium in Ludwigshafen.

Heinz joined the Army as a Fahnenjunker in the 18^th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, „Prinz Ludwig Ferdinand“ on 02-11-1914, three months after the beginning of World War I. After a course for Fahnenjunkers in Döberitz he on 17-04-1915 was sent to the Western Front.  He was promoted to Leutnant and transferred end February to a Machine Gun Company. He became 2^nd Adjutant with the 6^th Infantry Brigade. He ended the war as commander of the Staff Quarters of the 23^rd Reichswehr Brigade.

He remained in the new Reichswehr  and at the beginning of World War II, commander of the 1^st Battalion of the 62^nd Infantry Regiment, until 06-02-1940 and involved in the invasion of Poland.  Following the command of the 528^th Infantry Regiment with the 299^th Infantry Division  under General of the Artillery Willi Albin Moser   to 01-09-1942 as an Oberst meanwhile. Willi Moser was captured by Soviet troops in 1945 and died in Soviet captivity on 18-10-1946, age 58. Temporary in the Führer Reserve  (see Hitler) (did you know) Bürcky was assigned as commander of the School VII for Officer Aspirants of Infantry, in Milowitz near Prague, until 15-03-1944. From 15-03-1944 he came to Potsdam as commander of all Infantry Schools for Fahnenjunkers. Again a short time in the Führer Reserve and detached to the Division Leaders Course in Hirschberg, until 15-11-1944. Bürcky’s last command was of the 159^th Infantry Division, where he succeeded Generalmajor der Reserve, Friedrich Wilhelm Dernen 

,  until his capture by the Allied Forces, on 29-04-1945. Friedrich Wilhelm Dernen died age 83 on his birthday on 15-02-1967

Death and burial ground of Bürcky, Heinrich “Heinz”.

Released on 28-06-1947, Bürcky lived in Frankenthal, where he at the age of 78, on 04-08-1973 died. Bürcky is buried on the village cemetery of Frankenthal.

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