egbert Posted 25 August , 2004 Share Posted 25 August , 2004 In the middle of today's Cologne-Wahn AFB there is a nice, well maintained PoW cemetery with mostly dead from nearby former Great War PoW camp Wahn. There are French, Russian known and unknown marked graves and also quite a few German ones. Even today, after so many years, each Remembrance Day (Volkstrauertag) a delegation of Luftwaffe-soldiers of all ranks gather on the grounds of the cemetery and pay tribute to the dead and lay the wreaths. The military catholic priest and lutheran pastor each hold a speech and prayer as does the base commander. They remember the dead of both WWs, civilian and military. I took some pictures of this hidden piece of tranquility, usually not accessable to the public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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egbert Posted 25 August , 2004 Author Share Posted 25 August , 2004 And this is something very special: the two main mutineers of the 1918 sailor's mutiny at Kiel on ships of the Imperial High Sea's Fleet had been imprisoned here and shot at dawn after their trial. They are buried here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tamarin Posted 30 August , 2004 Share Posted 30 August , 2004 Egbert thanks for the pictures very interested, could you post some more info on the mutiners (how there came to be a memorial to them etc) Tamarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 31 August , 2004 Author Share Posted 31 August , 2004 Well they were taken prisoners and accused of treason. Two of the head/leading mutineers were shot at dawn after imprisonment and trial in Wahn; their names: Matrose Albin Köbis and Matrose Max Reichpietsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john w. Posted 31 August , 2004 Share Posted 31 August , 2004 Thanks for the photos.. good to see them.. interesting to see Unser Kameraden on the headstone.. was that affection? one in the eye for authority? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 31 August , 2004 Author Share Posted 31 August , 2004 Reichpietsch, Max, * 24.10.1894 Charlottenburg, + 5.9.1917 Wahn near Köln, Matrose, Revolutionary; he served on the battleship "Friedrich der Große" and acted as leading agitator and organizer of the High Sea Fleet’s sailor/seaman revolutionary movement in summer 1917; together with Albin Köbis he prepared the mutiny 25. August: A Wilhelmshaven based war tribunal imposed 5 death penalties against mutineers and against several others multiyear prison terms. The CiC of the fleet pardoned 3 death candidates; 23 years old Oberheizer Max Reichpietsch and 25years old Heizer Albin Köbis were shot at dawn at Wahn/Wahnerheide, 27./29. October 1918: Begin of the mutiny on ships of the High Sea Fleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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