Karl-Heinz Rosch

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Monument to Karl-Heinz Rosch

Karl-Heinz Rosch (born October 3, 1926 in Meißen ; † October 6, 1944 in Goirle ) was a German soldier who saved the lives of two Dutch children.

The act of rescue

Karl-Heinz Rosch was employed as a gunner on a farm in Goirle in the Netherlands in October 1944 . Under Allied fire, he brought two small, 4 and 5 year old children who were still playing in the yard to safety. When he returned to the yard, he was killed by a grenade at the place where the children had played.

Honors

Plaque on the monument

On November 4, 2008, a bronze statue in memory of Karl-Heinz Rosch was erected on private property in Goirle.

Since the statue shows Karl-Heinz Rosch in Wehrmacht uniform with a steel helmet , the erection of the statue was very controversial in the Netherlands, and neither public funds nor public land were made available.

In addition to the memorial for Friedrich Lengfeld (on the Hürtgen cemetery ), the statue is the only known memorial for a German Wehrmacht soldier that was erected by former opponents.

Web links

  • Tobias Müller: The good German from Goirle. A Wehrmacht soldier is honored for the first time in Holland . In: Badische Zeitung . October 29, 2008 ( online [accessed February 21, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The good German von Goirle. A Wehrmacht soldier is honored for the first time in Holland. In: badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dutch honor a Wehrmacht soldier. In: Welt Online . Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosch, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1944
Place of death Goirle