Memorial to Kähler family members who died in wars

Members of the Kähler family lived in Prussia, Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States. As expected, they fought for the countries of which they were citizens. Members of the family fought on all sides of the two world wars. Many Kählers lived in East Prussia. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, Poland, and Belarus made an effort to expel ethnic Germans. Several family members were killed during the chaos in East Prussia in 1945.

Died in World War I

Gerard Helmuth Kloevekorn (B.V.6.l)
Robert Bernhard Walter Dross (B.V.10.a)
Siegfried Walter Helmuth Dross (B.V.10.g)
Hans Polst, husband of Marianne* Dorothea Elisabeth Meisner (B.VII.2.h). Hans fell in battle just 13 days after he and Marianne were married.
Hermann Gustav Alfred Gerhard Kähler (C.IV.9.a)
Justus Eduard Alfred* Kabath (C.I.3.a.A)
Johannes Siegfried* Joachim Kähler (C.VIII.4.b) was a flier.
Hermann* Ludwig Alexander Kähler (D.XI.1.a)
Karl* Emil Friedrich Kähler (D.XI.1.c) died of an illness during the war while in military service.
Werner* Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Kähler, (E.I.2.b) died in the battle of Verdun.
Walther Firgau, (E.V.4.e)
Johannes "Hans" Theodor Rehfeld, (E.VI.7) fell in battle near Auchy.

Died in World War II

Gerhard Hartmann (C.IV.9.c.A)
Rudolf Dietrich Eberhard Kloevekorn (B.V.6.h)
Hans-Joachim Bernhard Teicke (C.I.8.b.A)
Herta* Ida Felicitas Kähler (C.I.8.c) and
   her husband Hermann Carl Eduard KRAUSE both died in the sinking of the steamer SS General von Steuben by a Soviet submarine, and
   their son Dietrich Bernhard Theodor Krause (C.I.8.c.A), a soldier missing in action.
Elisabeth Charlotte "Lotte" Kähler (C.IV.6.b) and
   her mother Martha Clara Wiese, widow of Gustav Bernhard Kähler and
   her husband Mr. Stephan and
   their first son (C.IV.6.b.A)
   their second son (C.IV.6.b.B)
Paul Benno Kähler (C.IV.6.a) died of starvation in a Soviet prisoner of war camp.
Ulrich Anton Franz Funck (B.V.6.d.D) died shortly after the war of wounds from the war.



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