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~SOLD~BREMER Gerhard
Obersturmbannführer
Bremer, Gerhard
* 25.07.1917 Düsternthal/Niedersachsen
+ 29.10.1989 St. Michael/Österreich
Awarded Knights Cross: 30.10.1941
as: Obersturmführer Führer 1.(KradSchtz)/AufklAbt "LSSAH"
Awarded Oakleaves as the 668th Recipient : 26.11.1944 as Sturmbannführer
Kommandeur PzAufklAbt 12 "HJ"
Gerhard Bremer (born July 25, 1917 in Düsterntal , part of Delligsen , district of Gandersheim , Germany , October 29, 1989 in Alicante , Spain )
Prewar
From 1927 to 1933 Bremer attended the Gymnasium Alfeld and from Easter 1933 to Easter 1936 the NPEA Plön , where he took his Abitur in 1936. On October 1, 1936, he became a volunteer of the III. Battalions of the Germania headquarters in Wolterdingen. In 1937 he visited the SS junior school in Bad Tolz , and in the autumn of 1938 he came to Berlin-Lichterfelde as Untersturmführer to the 10th Company of the LSSAH. With his company he took part in the occupation of the Sudetenland in 1938 and from then on all campaigns until the end of the Second World War.
World War II
During the attack on Poland from September 1, 1939, he was ordained as an adjutant in the staff of the III. Battalions before Warsaw the Iron Cross II class and in Flanders in 1940 the Iron Cross 1st class.
Bremer also took part in the attack on Yugoslavia and Greece (1941) and was subsequently transferred to the LSSAH. With the attack on the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941), he was deployed in Southern Russia. On 30 October 1941 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as an Obersturmführer and leader of the 1st (Kradschützen) Company on the 30th of October, 1941, when the Mariupol, which was strongly defended by the Soviet Army , was taken on the shore of the Azov Sea .
Until April 1943 Bremer led the Kradschützen company, was then promoted to the Hauptsturmführer and took over from June 1943 the guidance of the III. Battalions of the SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 26 of the 12th Panzer Division "HJ" . With the date of April 1944, he was appointed commander of the Panzer Reconnaissance Division 12 in Belgium, successor to Erich Olboeter. In the course of the Allied invasion (June 1944) in Caen , he took the flank protection on the left side of the division. There he fought the opposing troops fanatical resistance. According to reports, Bremer was involved in war crimes in this connection, in particular the execution of Canadian prisoners of war at Putot-en-Bessin. Then he broke with the remnants of his division from the cauldron of Falaise , and followed the general retreat of the defenses behind the Seine to the Meuse. There he set up a position in the Namur area, whereby he could hold a wide section of the 5th Panzer Army's retreat against American troops of General George S. Patton . For this Bremer received the 668th Eichenlaub to the Ritterkreuz.
After the rehabilitation of the division in Westphalia, Bremer took part in the Ardennes offensive in the winter of 1944-1945 and, after its failure, was deployed in Hungary from February 1945 onwards. At the end of the war, he found himself with the remains of his unit in the St. Pölten area , and surrendered to the Soviet forces.
Postwar
In French war prison, he was released in July 1948 and emigrated in 1954 with his wife Almut to Denia , Spain. As a construction contractor and real estate administrator, he built a bungalow settlement, which after his death was passed on by his son Gerd and his wife. In this settlement mainly Germans settle down (as a holiday or a permanent residence). The city itself was at this time the point of contact for many high SS officers and war criminals. Thus, Otto Skorzeny , Johannes Bernhardt (NSDAP-AO), Anton Galler, Otto Ernst Remer, and the long-sought-for doctor Aribert Heim lived here .
Gerhard Bremer died on 29 October 1989 at the age of 72 in Alicante, Spain.
Postwar signed photo measuring 4" x 6" plus unsigned photo of Bremer with arm in sling
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