Medem, Gerhard (General der Pioniere)

Date of birth:: October 14th, 1893 (Zoppot)
Date of death:: November 16th, 1953 (Soviet POW Camp Nr. 48, Černcy, Ležnevo)
Buried on:: German War Cemetery Cherntsy
Grave: UNK.
Nationality:: German

Biography

Promotions:
01.04.1912: Fahnenjunker
20.11.1913: Leutnant - Patent 19.11.1911
27.01.1917: Oberleutnant
01.05.1924: Hauptmann
01.01.1934: Major
01.03.1937: Oberstleutnant
01.02.1939: Oberst
01.09.1941: Generalmajor
01.09.1943: Generalleutnant

Career:
01.04.1912: Entered service as Fahnenjunker
20.11.1913: Commissioned as a Leutnant in Pioniere-Bataillon 23
01.05.1931: Assigned to the Kommandantur in Truppenübungsplatz Grafenwöhr
01.10.1937-01.09.1939: Kdr. der Pi. I
01.09.1939-04.10.1939: Kommandeur of Pioniere-Regiment 541
04.10.1939-01.04.1943: Kommandeur of Pioniere-Schule II
01.04.1943-24.01.1945: General der Pioniere Heeresgruppe Nord
25.01.1945-10.05.1945: General der Pioniere Heeresgruppe Kurland
10.05.1945: Soviet POW, interned in Goldingen/Kurland, today Kuldīga/Lettland
00.00.1945: transferred to the POW Camp Nr. 27 in Krasnogorsk then in the camp Nr. 48 in Černcy, Ležnevo and finally in the POW camp Butyrskaja near Moscow
29.06.1950: sentenced to 25 years by the military court of Moscow
16.11.1953: died of a heart attack and burried in the Černcy cemetery in Ležnevo, Ivanovo
19.08.1964: the Bundeswehr-Barrack of the Panzerpionierbataillon 1, Holzminden, was renamed "Medem-Kaserne", today "Pionierkaserne am Solling"