Fremerey, Max, born 05-05-1889, only a few weeks after Adolf Hitler (did you know),
in Cologne,
Rheinland, the son of Alfred Fremerey, a former hussar of the Prussian cavalry (Oberleutnant in the reserve out of service from Wiesbaden), and his wife Maria, born Banzhaf joined the Army on 21-03-1910, age 20, as a Fahnenjunker in the 7th Dragoner-Regiment. He participated in World War I and seriously wounded as a regimental officer on 01-10-1914 and remained in the hospital until 28-04-1915. Until 07-09-1915 he was in the replacement squadron (replacement squadron) of his regular regiment, then until 20-11-1915 he was commanded as an adjutant to the Landsturm Infantry Battalion VI / XXI in Saarbrücken and then to the Eastern Front (Modlin near Warsaw im September 1915), then he was regimental adjutant of the 26th Landsturm Infantry Regiment until July 03-07-1917. Max was allowed in the new 10 divisions 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 480th Infantry Regiment. On 26-10-1940 he became the commander of the 18th Schützen-Brigade. On 01-06-1941 he was promoted to Generalmajor.
Fremery was the commander of the 29th Infantry Division
, a motorized division, on 29-12-1941, he succeeded Walter von Boltenstern
and received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. Von Boltenstern, also a Knight’s Cross receiver, died in Russia, Woikowo prison, age 62, on 19-01-1952. Fremery
was also on the battlefields of Stalingrad with 29th Division next to famous Generals as, Generalleutnant der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur der 24th Panzer Division
, Kampkommandant von Berlin, Bruno Ritter von Hauenschild, Generaloberst der Infanterie, Oberbefehlhaber der 6th Armee, Karl Hollidt, and General der Panzertruppe, Kommandeur General XXXXVIII Panzerkorps, Werner Kempf
















Death and burial ground of Fremerey, Max.




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, Oberst der Wehrmacht under General Andrey Vlasov, General of Secret Service, Heinz Herre and Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Kommandeur 88th Infanterie Division, Graf Georg von Rittberg.
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