Kalm, Otto Thilo von, born 06-04-1889, in Rostock,
two months after Adolf Hitler (did you know),
entered the Army on 21-07-1910, as a Fahnenjunker in the 11th Field Artillery Regiment, age 21. He was in the fields of the first war and in British captivity as many
from 01-11-1918 until 01-12-1919. He remained in the new Reichswehr
and with the beginning of World War II he was the commander of the 13th Artillery Regiment to 01-10-1939. He landed in the Führer Reserve
to 01-12-1941 and assigned as commander of Magdeburg to 31-11-1944 and at last retired on 31-11-1944, as Hitler didn’t need him anymore.






Death and burial ground of Kalm, Otto Thilo von.

Von Kalm lived in Kassel after the war and died there at the very old age of 97, on 09-06-1986 and is buried with his wife Wera, born Uecker, who died age 67, on 08-08-1968, on the Cemetery Wahlershausen in Kassel. In Kassel is the famous Military cemetery of Kassel, where are buried the Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur vom WBK Königsberg II, Rudolf Scheller, Generalmajor der Panzertruppe, Commander of the 92nd Panzer Grenadier Regiment, Werner von Hillebrandt, Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur Feld Material, Hans Hederich,




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