Bio of Generalleutnant Werner Ehrig

Werner Julius Clemens Ehrig was born 22-04-1897 in Eibenstock, entered the Army as a volunteer and Fahnenjunker in the 108th Rifle Regiment. With this regiment he went into the fields of the first war and was wounded in hospital from 21-08-1915 to 23-11-1915. He was two times wounded in hospital again from 10-04-1916 to 13-08-1916 and from 22-07-1918 to 06-12-1918. He ended the war as a Company Leader of the 108th Regiment. Ehrig was retired on 15-03-1920 and reactivated on 01-01-1924, under Generalmajor der Infanterie Hans Sponeck (Kommandeur der XLII Armeekorps). At the beginning of World War II he was in the Führer Reserve  to 25-10-1939. He was Battalion Commander in the 216th Infantry Regiment and Chief of Operations in the Staff of the 164th Infantry Division 164th Infanterie-Division under General Josef Folltmann. Again in the Führer Reserve and delegated with the leadership of the 340th Infantry Division to 01-01-1944. The division now under command of Generalleutnant Theodor `Tolsdorff. 'The Mad` Tolsdorff   fought in the Battle of the Bulge, as part of I SS Panzer Corps  under command of SS-Obergruppenführer Hermann Priess,  and then retreated into Germany as part of XIII SS Corps, under command of SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon, before finally being destroyed in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945 (Max Simon survived the war and died 01-02-1961 aged 62). Ehrig was in the infamous Reserve again from 16-06-1944 to 15-07-1944 and got the command of the 544th Grenadier Division, he succeeded General Erich Hofmann (Commander of the 506th Volksgrenadier Division). As commander of the 544th Volksgrenadier Division, fighting in the Ruhr pocket, where Generalfieldmarschall der Infanterie, Walter Model committed suicide. He on 08-05-1945 landed in Allied captivity to March 1948. Living after the war in Oldenburg, he died at the old age of 83, on 31-01-1981 and is buried with his wife Gerda, born Thaden, who died at the very old age of 96, on 17-08-1997, on the Stadtfriedhof of Oldenburg. Also buried there is Generalmajor der Infanterie Moritz Drebber.

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