Schaller, Max.

Schaller, Max, born 27-10-1896 in Oelsnitz, Sachsen, entered the Army Service, age 18, on 07-06-1915 as a Fahnenjunker with the 48^th Field Artillery Regiment. He performed the Field Artillery Firing School in Jüterborg and was in the fields of the first war as a battery officer and severely wounded   in hospital from 18-07-1918 to 31-03-1919. Schaller was allowed in the new Reichswehr  and climbed up the ranks to an Oberstleutnant on 01-02-1939. With the outbreak of World War II he was the commander of the 1^st Battalion of the 23^rd Flak Regiment, until 14-02-1940. Department Chief LP 4 in the Luftwaffe Personnel Office RLM  to 30-04-1942 now an Oberst. He successively was commander of the Flak Brigade V  to 19-01-1943, of the 1^st Flak Division, as a Major General to 18-02-1944 and of the 13^th Flak Division until 05-10-1944. Schaller then was placed to the disposal of the Luftwaffe Personnel Office RLM to 03-12-1944 and before he landed in Allied captivity, he was the commander of the 8^th Flak Division substitude of Generalleutnant Kurt Wagner, to 07-05-1945.

Death and burial ground of Schaller, Max.

  He was released on 08-05-1947 and living in Bremen, Schaller died at the age of 75, on 24-03-1972. He is buried on the cemetery Riensberg in Bremen, alas his gravestone is removed. Close by the graves of Generalarzt der Wehrmacht, Dr. Rudolf Attig,  Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur 562^th Volks Grenadier Division, Johannes Brauer,  Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur von Hamburg, Kurt Heyser, and Generalleutnant der Flakartillerie, Kommandeur Kommando XVIII Vienna, Kurt Wagner, 

    Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, Stalingrad General der Artillerie,

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