Ehrig, Werner Julius Clement.

Ehrig, Werner Julius Clement, born 22-04-1897 in Eibenstock,  entered the Army as a volunteer and Fahnenjunker in the 108^th Rifle Regiment. With this regiment Werner went into the fields of the first war and was wounded in hospital from, 21-08-1915 to 23-11-1915. He was two times wounded in hospital again from 10-04-1916 to 13-08-1916 and from 22-07-1918 to 06-12-1918. He ended the war as a Company Leader of the 108^th Regiment. Ehrig was retired on 15-03-1920 and reactivated on 01-01-1924, under Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur der XLII Armeekorps, Hans Sponeck

  . At the beginning of World War II he was in the Führer Reserve  to 25-10-1939. He was Battalion Commander in the 216^th Infantry Regiment and Chief of Operations in the Staff of the 164^th Infantry Division  , under General Josef Folltmann     to 10-01-1941. Folltmann died age 71, on 11-04-1958, in Aachen. Again in the Führer Reserve and delegated with the leadership of the 340^th Infantry Division , substitute for General Josef Prinner to 01-01-1944. Prinner survived the war  and died age 70 on 01-07-1966, in Munich. The division now under command of Generalleutnant Theodor `Tolsdorff the Mad` Tolsdorff   fought in the Battle of the Bulge, as part of I SS Panzer Corps  under command of SS-Obergruppenführer Hermann Priess,

  and then retreated into Germany as part of XIII SS Corps, under command of SS-Gruppenführer, Max Simon , before finally being destroyed in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945.  Max Simon survived the war and died 01-02-1961 aged 62.

Ehrig was in the infamous Reserve (see Adolf Hitler)  (did you know) again from 16-06-1944 to 15-07-1944 and got the command of the 544^th Grenadier Division, he succeeded General der Arillerie, Commander of the 506^th Volksgrenadier Division Erich Hofmann. As commander of the 544^th Volksgrenadier Division, fighting in the Ruhr pocket, where Generalfieldmarschall der Infanterie, Walter Model

   committed suicide, he on 08-05-1945 landed in Allied captivity to March 1948.

Living in Oldenburg, he died at the old age of 83, on 31-01-1981 and is buried with his wife Gerda, born Thaden, who died at the very old age of 96, on 17-08-1997, on the Stadtfriedhof of Oldenburg. Also buried there is Generalmajor der Infanterie,   Kommandeur der 297^th Infanterie Division, Moritz Drebber.

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