Tronnier, Louis, born 21-11-1897 in Braunschweig,
the son of Louis Sr Tronnier, and Auguste Tronnier, born Züchner, a secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in Braunschweig, joined the Prussian Military Service on 06-06-1915, age 17, with the 17th Braunschweigische Husaren Regiment
. Promoted to Leutnant on 27-01-1918 and received for his war efforts both the Iron Crosses
. Tronnier retired from the service after the war on 30-11-1918. He became a bank servant and married Hedwig “Hedi” Reimann on 03-07-1920 and had one son in 1925 and two daughters in 1920/1933. He joined the Police Service as a leutnant in Braunschweig on 01-02-1926. Promoted to Oberleutnant on 01-06-1928 and Hauptmann on 01-05-1930.



Before serving in the German Wehrmacht, Tronnier has been chief of a school for policemen in Land Braunschweig, from 1930 to 1934. He has been a convinced Hitler-follower before 1933. In March and April 1933, he formed in Holzminden the so-called “Hilfspolizei”
with SA-men and young policemen. They did terrible, irregular things to Hitler enemies in the first months of Hitlers government. In 1935 or 1936 he went to the Wehrmacht where he had a very quick career, even to the grade of Generalmajor in 1944.
He was assigned as Company Chief of the 17th Infantry Regiment under then Oberst, Friedrich Bayer who would be his neighbor on their cemetery of Cherntsy and promoted to Major on 01-04-1937.


He was assigned as Company Chief of the 17th Infantry Regiment under then Oberst, Friedrich Bayer who would be his neighbor on their cemetery of Cherntsy and promoted to Major on 01-04-1937.


Tronnier was now appointed as teacher of the war school in Wiener Neustadt from 10-11-1938, one day after the Kristallnacht also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, or Reichskristallnacht, which was a pogrom, a series of coordinated attacks, against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and non-Jewish civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.














Death and burial ground of Tronnier, Louis.
Tronnier here with von Reichenau
died on 27-01-1952, age 54, at Woikowo prisoner of war camp near Moscow. There is a grave of honour in München, on the Waldfriedhof, but Tronnier is buried on the special General cemetery of Cherntsy, where thirty Generals found their rest, among them four Japanese Generals, Nogutschi, Tahasi, Karasawa and Siena, who all died more than ten years after the end of the war. Peter Bracke from Belgium reported me that he bought the coat of General Tronnier on a German auction house. And a German collector from Stuttgart bought the white summer tunic from the east of General Tronnier and kindly sent a photo of it.



The picture of Tronnier is kindly delivered by Rik Rikkers. A few of his neighbours are Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Kommandeur of Warschau, Rainer Stahel, General der Artillerie, Kommandeur IV Heeresgruppe, Max Pfeffer, Generalmajor der Infanterie, Kommandeur der XVIII Gebirgstruppe, Friedrich Hochbaum, General der Infanterie, Commander 32nd Infantry Division
and L Army Corps, Hans Boeck Behrens, Generalmajor and commander of the 570th Infantry Regiment. Barends, Erwin Hans Barends, Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Commander of the 44th Infanterie Division, Heinrich Deboi, Generalmajor, Commander 290th Infantery Division , Hans-Joachim Baurmeister, and Generalmajor der Wehrmacht, Pioneer Commander, Wilhelm Runge, Generalleutnant der Infanterie, Commander of a Field Training Division, Friedrich Bayer.


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