Karl-Heinz Gürth (1940 - 2011)

Born 22 May 1940 in Lerchenberg, Glogau, Liegnitz, Schlesien

Ancestors

Died 1 Apr 2011 at age 70 in Dahlen, Oschatz, Leipzig, Sachsen [uncertain]

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Biography

Karl-Heinz Gürth was born in the Province of Silesia, Prussia

Karl-Heinz Gürth was born 1940 in Lerchenberg (Zerbau=Serby), Glogau=Glogów, Liegnitz, Schlesien^[1] (displaced person). He was the son of Franz Josef Gürth and Anna Luise Auguste Müller.

In the harsh cold freezing winter of early 1945, he fled as a young child with his mother and older brother Waldemar from Zerbau 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.

He married Christel Engelmann.

He passed away on 1 Apr 2011 in Dahlen, Oschatz, Leipzig, Sachsen.

The funeral service with urn interment took place on Friday, April 15, 2011, at 12:30 p.m. at the cemetery in Dahlen.

Burial: Friedhof Dahlen, Dahlen, Oschatz, Leipzig, Sachsen

Sources

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

• Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
• Germany Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1500-1921

Acknowledgments

Thanks to A.W.Gürth for starting this profile.