Request for help from Germany

I received the following email today.

Maybe someone in the area can help. I have located the village on the map. It is southeast of Barlad. See here: http://www.hartionline.ro/ro/harta/k4.html

Here is what I can contribute with:

Gen. Dénes

I forgot to add the email adress of mr. Janssen: marcel.75@web.de

Victor

I am certain you know that the father of the present Bundes Cancellor of Germany Herr Gerhard Schroeder lost his life in Roumania serving as officer or NCO in WWII possibly near Bucharest or Basarabia . I am not sure if we dealt with this subject , if we didn't ,do you or anyone on here have any info with photos on him ?

This could generate some attention in Germany and perhaps we should start a tread about it ?

Alex

This post has been edited by alexkdl on February 10, 2005 09:21 am

Alex, the Schroeder father grave was found ( near a church in Transilvania) and several unofficial visits of Cancellar was made to Romania for this purpose.
Massmedia in Romania never missed the issue.

As for Herr Marcel Janssen request, for the moment i can not help because of the heavy winter on these days in Romania and the far distance from Bucharest to Galati. Maybe at the begin of spring ( if it's not to late) i can do a trip to that village for pictures.
Dan.

PS: Anyone from Galati on this forum ?

Dan , I know regarding the grave from the German media, what I meant are photos of his dad, duty he had also details of his death....by the way can you email me a winter photo taken from your window,,,,,I know about the heavy winter in Bucharest and Rumania, while here we have no snow at all and every spring like weather

Alex

Alex, i know only the village name was "Ceanul Mare" and his father lost his life in the fights ( september-october'44) for Transilvania near that village. And was burried with other german comrades near the church of Ceanul Mare village.
I didn't see pictures with his father in rom. massmedia. Probably you have to ask on german forums other details ( like unit, war exploits, portrait pictures) I don't think you can find such details in rom. archiv.

Dan.

PS: I will make pictures with "Stalingrad winter" in Romania.
Pick-up for me and smell a spring flower from your swiss green garden.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on February 10, 2005 02:20 pm

Has anybody been able to locate that gentleman's resting place?

Here is the discussion on this forum: Gerhard Schroeder visits his father tomb and the photo from Clujeanul newspaper:

Over here I found the church and the priest's name in Cavadinesti. Maybe is helpful.
Allways the priest knows this things.the church and the priest's name

Thanks for the links. Anyone knows how to get the adress of the priest Toader Pohrib who is "Protopop" of the area where is also Cavadinesti village.
We can translate the letter from Herr Janssen and sent to him to help with info maybe also with pictures ( i offer myself to cover the expenses for pictures issue)

Dan.

Whatever happened with this? Was anyone able to help locate his grandfather?

Maybe someone in the area can help. I have located the village on the map. It is southeast of Barlad. See here: http://www.hartionline.ro/ro/harta/k4.html

Do you knew the result of Mr. Janssen request ?
Has somebody send him something ?

Hello,

I hope I'm posting this correctly.

I contacted Herr Janssen, and he wrote me back the next morning. I was touched by his letter about his father and the father/grandfather they never knew. I want to find that cemetery. It's a LONG way from Sibiu, but I'm sure gonna try! I bought a nice map, but I am a bit shocked that it is so out of the way! :-o It's right at the edge of the Romanian/Moldovan border. I will check the different bus and trains to see what is best to get there.

I don't know how many Germans are buried there. I hope there is some kind of sign or stone marking where the German soldiers are buried. I don't know what to expect being that it is a small community. And I have a fear of hearing, "Sorry, but there are no German soldiers buried here."

I will call the primaria in Cavadinest tomorrow for more information.

Any advice on travel is welcome. I think there are some sites in Focsani relating to the war.

And who would I contact for records on German troops killed at the river Pruth and buried in Cavadinesti? I'm just a tourist, so it is possible that I have no right to see records of the war. But I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.

I will try to leave for Cavadinesti this Monday!

Thank you all so very much!!!
Shane

I advise you to call before leaving, in as many locations/offices as possible, so you would know what to expect.

If they say that you cannot see documents, because you're a foreigner, not a Rumanian, just refer to your rights as a European Union citizen (if you're from EU), which is equal to the rights of the Rumanian citizen.

Good luck! It's a very nice gesture and you fully deserve to be successful in your quest...

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on September 10, 2008 05:11 am