Hans-Jürgen Meyer (officer)

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Hans-Jürgen Meyer (* 1915 ; † February 7, 2010 in Rostock ) was a German soldier and teacher .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Meyer was last lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht and as such in the spring of 1945 adjutant to the commandant of Stralsund . When the city was taken almost without a fight by the Red Army on May 1, 1945 , Hans-Jürgen Meyer was tasked with the defense of the island of Rügen , on which around 1,500 Wehrmacht soldiers were entrenched. In view of the actual situation, he met on the night of May 4, 1945 with the General of the Red Army Nikolai Grigoryevich Lyaschtschenko in Stralsund and negotiated with him the surrender of the island of Rügen to the Red Army without a fight; the surrender took place on May 4, 1945 at 8 a.m.

After the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , which he did not leave early despite an offer from the Soviet Union; he returned to Germany in 1949 and became a teacher of mathematics and physics in the German Democratic Republic .

He wrote the book Blinkzeichen am Rügenamm about his commitment .

Fonts

  • Flashing signs on the Rügen dam. Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1972 (Das Taschenbuch Volume No. 147) [4. Ed., 1990].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The rescuer of Rügen is dead: Hans-Jürgen Meyer died in Rostock  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ostsee-Zeitung of February 16, 2010, accessed on February 20, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2010
Place of death Rostock