Albert Mayer (soldier)

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Albert Mayer's gravestone in the Illfurth military cemetery

Albert Mayer (also Camille Mayer * 24. April 1892 in Magdeburg , † 2. August 1914 at Delle ) was a lieutenant of the Jäger Regiment on horseback no. 5 of Mulhouse and is considered the first German soldier in World War I fell .

Albert Mayer - according to the German version - came from Magdeburg , according to a French version, Camille Mayer came from the area around Mulhouse. He served in a unit whose main task was to carry out reconnaissance and security tasks. On August 2, 1914, he led an eight rider strong patrol on a reconnaissance mission to Joncherey , Territoire de Belfort , and thus clearly on French territory. There was to secure a battalion of 44 e regiment infantry d' . A brief firefight developed in the course of which both Caporal Jules-André Peugeot and Albert Mayer were fatally wounded ( ). Albert Mayer was the first to be killed by the German armed forces in World War I, although this was officially declared to France on August 3 at 6 p.m. World icon

Albert Mayer is buried in the German military cemetery in Illfurth .

In 1937, merchants from Enger had three handfuls of earth taken from Mayer's grave to the Widukind Museum in Enger for propaganda hero worship in order to advertise willingness to make sacrifices in the country. The memorial of the “Blood and Soil Relic” was opened in 1938 and could be seen until the 1970s before it was inaccessible to the public. The plan was to restore the earth to Mayer's grave on August 2, 2014. This was to be recorded on film for the documentation Albert Mayer's Journey from Illfurth to Enger - A Story from Time and Earth by Ruppe Koselleck . [outdated]

Individual evidence

  1. Article ( 10 things you do not know about monuments ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 21, 2009, accessed on July 7, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  2. Déclaration de M. Nicolas Sarkozy, Président de la République, en hommage aux combattants de la Première Guerre mondiale, à Paris le 17 mars 2008 ( online )
  3. a b c d Westfälische Nachrichten : The first dead should have rest: Artist Ruppe Koselleck's project on the First World War , Münster, Gerhard H. Kock, April 10, 2014
  4. rammelsberg-blog.de: Art Mediation on the Mountain - Remember 1914-1918 - Projects on Art, War, Peace , April 4, 2014, Katharina Fuhrhop

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