Waldemar Gürth

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Waldemar Gürth wurde in Provinz Schlesien, Preußen geboren.

Waldemar Gürth lebte in Schlesien & Sachsen.

My father Waldemar Franz Ernst Gürth was born on 24 July 1932 in Zerbau=Serby, Glogau=Głogów, Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preußen, Deutsches Reich (Silesia, Prussia, German Empire) ^[1], nowadays Poland (displaced person).

He was the son of Franz Josef Gürth (1904-1983) and Auguste Anna Luise Müller (1906-1978).

His brother was Karl-Heinz Gürth (1940 - 2011).

In the harsh cold freezing winter of early 1945, he fled as a young child with his mother and younger brother Karl-Heinz from Zerbau on foot in the refugee trek from Silesia to relatives in the Sudetenland and then on to Baalsdorf, Saxony, leaving behind his parents' house with all possessions and belongings. The whole family was never to see their home again.

Due to malnutrition and the stress of the escape as a child from Silesia, he got various diseases, including tuberculosis, which led to the fact that a lung wing had to be amputated. In addition, there was Morbus Bechterew, which stiffened his back after some time. But he did not let these strokes of fate get him down.

He learned the historical and now extinct profession of a millwright (Mühlenbauer). A millwright (Mühlenbauer) is a high-precision craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves flour mills, sawmills, paper mills and fulling mills powered by water or wind, made mostly of wood with a limited number of metal parts. Since the use of these structures originates in antiquity, millwrighting could arguably be considered one of the oldest engineering trades and the forerunner of modern mechanical engineering.

My parents married on 31 March 1956 in Engelsdorf, Leipzig, Sachsen (Saxony) and became proud parents of 3 children (2 daughters and 1 son).

He passed away on 26 April 1985, aged 52, in a hospital in Leipzig, Sachsen (Saxony), as a result of several operations caused by cancer. Urn interment followed on 6 May 1985, in the grave of his parents. The grave of him and his parents was dissolved.

Burial: 6 May 1985 - Friedhof Baalsdorf, Baalsdorf, Leipzig Land, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany Burial Coordinates (GPS): 51.3232720; 12.4828530

Sources

1. ↑ Zerbau - Verein für Computergenealogie e.V.

• Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
• Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1500-1921
• 1956.03.31 Marriage certificate, registry office Engelsdorf 17-1956
• FamilySearch ID LVWG-GTJ for Waldemar Franz Ernst GürthJ
• Find a Grave, memorial page for Waldemar Franz Ernst Gürth (24 Jul 1932–26 Apr 1985), Find A Grave: Memorial #170761861, citing Friedhof Baalsdorf, Baalsdorf, Stadtkreis Leipzig, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany; Maintained by awg (contributor 48803007)
• BillionGraves Memorial ID 104153888 for Waldemar Franz Ernst Gürth

Acknowledgments

Thanks to A.W.Gürth, son of Waldemar Franz Ernst Gürth & Ursula Luise Hildegard Wuttig for starting this profile.