Straehler-Pohl, Günther Karl Hans Ulhrich

Date of birth:: July 29th, 1917 (Breslau, Germany)
Date of death:: July 31st, 1980 (Wildeshausen, Germany)
Nationality:: German

Biography

00.03.1935: trained at Frankenstein as an Offiziersanwärter
00.08.1935: transferred to II./ Inf.Rgt. 28
00.01.1936: transferred to LKS Dresden for officer training
01.04.1937: promoted to Leutnant
00.05.1938: trained as paratrooper
01.09.1939: Lt., promoted to Oberleutnant(Tr.O.), transferred to the Luftwaffe, assigned to II./ Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 1
00.05.1940: Führer 5. Kompanie, Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 1
20.05.1941: Oblt., Chef 2. Kompanie, Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 3
00.05.1941: Oblt., Chef 3. Kompanie, Rest-Kdo., Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 3
19.03.1942: awarded DKiG, I./ Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 3
01.04.1942: promoted to Hauptmann
01.02.1943: appointed Kdr. I. Bataillon, Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 3
08.05.1943: captured in Tunisia and POW
10.05.1943: awarded Ritterkreuz, Kdr. II./ Fsch.Jg.Rgt. 3
01.08.1944: officially listed as MIA
00.11.1947: repatriated
01.03.1956: joined the Bundeswehr
00.00.1958: Btl.Kdr. in 11. Pz.Gren.-Div.
00.00.1962: tactics instructor in Hamburg
00.00.1964: instructor at an officer training school in München
30.09.1975: retired as an Oberst