This memorial page is dedicated to Anton Konrad Kuhn, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Anton Konrad Kuhn

Name: Kuhn
First names: Anton Konrad
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 30 December 1913
Place of birth: Rudolfsheim, Vienna (Austria)
Residence: in Deurne
Rank / Occupation: Obergefreiter
Identity tag: –
Unit: –
Date of death: 17 April 1945
Place of death: Gross-Wudicke (Germany)
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: Rathenow German Military Cemetery (Germany)
Memorial site: –

 

Additional information

Son of Konrad Kuhn and Maria Jeřek, widow of Catharina van Essen.

Grave location: Comrades’ grave

On 13 March 1938, Austria, then known as the ‘Ostmark’ (Eastern Province) of the Third Reich, became part of Nazi Germany. From as early as 1939, hundreds of thousands of Austrians were conscripted into the German Wehrmacht or SS, including Anton Konrad Kuhn, who lived in Deurne during the occupation. In the photograph, he is wearing a ‘Luftwaffe’ air force uniform.

In all likelihood, Anton Konrad Kuhn was travelling as a driver in a military convoy from the railway station at Gross-Wudicke to Berlin-Buckow when it was hit by an air raid.

Various documents contain spelling variations such as both ‘Kuhn’ and ‘Kühn’; the ‘Geburtsurkunde’ (birth certificate) spells it ‘Kuhn’.

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