Deaths in the 1940s

Elli Hatschek

1901–1944 (age 43)

Berlin

Hermann Stehr

1864–1940 (age 76)

Berlin

Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) was a German writer whose literary works contributed to early twentieth-century culture.

Arvīds Bārda

1901–1940 (age 39)

Berlin

Richard von Kühlmann

1873–1948 (age 75)

Berlin

Richard von Kühlmann (1873–1948) was a prominent German politician and diplomat whose career spanned decades of servi...

Kurt Schumacher

1905–1942 (age 37)

Berlin

Werner Seelenbinder

1904–1944 (age 40)

Berlin

German communist resistance fighter executed by the Nazis in 1944.

Walter Kollo

1878–1940 (age 62)

Berlin

Angelo Ferrari

1897–1945 (age 48)

Berlin

Italian actor active in Berlin during the early twentieth century.

Yuri Steklov

1873–1941 (age 68)

Berlin

Heinrich Wolf

1875–1943 (age 68)

Berlin

German chess player from Berlin active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Ivan Brusov

1926–1945 (age 19)

Berlin

Konstantin Nikitovitsj Volosjtsjoek

1916–1945 (age 29)

Berlin

Military personnel who served during World War II.

Ivan Stepanovitsj Gavva

1918–1945 (age 27)

Berlin

Vladimir Zhukov

1922–1945 (age 23)

Berlin

Individual born in 1922 whose life was marked by World War II.

Vasily Kazantsev

1920–1945 (age 25)

Berlin

Vasiliy Petrovitsj Kanoennikov

1916–1945 (age 29)

Berlin

Individual born in 1916 whose life encompassed World War II.

Feliks Jan Mazurkiewicz

1896–1945 (age 49)

Warburg

Wilhelm Canaris

1887–1945 (age 58)

Bavaria

German military intelligence officer and resistance fighter executed for opposing the Nazi regime.

Georg Escherich

1870–1941 (age 71)

Bavaria

Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavaria

1857–1943 (age 86)

Bavaria

Spanish Infanta and Duchess in Bavaria of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Princess Marie Louise of Hanover

1879–1948 (age 69)

Baden-Württemberg

Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia

1891–1942 (age 51)

Baden-Württemberg

Russian Grand Duke and member of the Romanov family who lived in exile.

Vladimir Sotenskiy

1899–1945 (age 46)

Bavaria

Antonín Kubec

1911–1943 (age 32)

Bavaria

Czechoslovak individual born in 1911 whose life was marked by European upheaval.

Bohumír Kobylka

1921–1943 (age 22)

Bavaria

Miroslav Křičenský

1915–1943 (age 28)

Bavaria

Czech military officer who died in service in Bavaria in 1943.

Pyotr Zotov

1925–1945 (age 20)

Brandenburg

Pjotr Ivanovitsj Romanov

1918–1945 (age 27)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Ivan Semjonovitsj Titov

1915–1945 (age 30)

Brandenburg

Idel Abramovitsj Sjandalov

1923–1945 (age 22)

Brandenburg

Soviet serviceman who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Aleksey Ivanov

1923–1945 (age 22)

Brandenburg

Ivan Michaylovitsj Tsjoersanov

1913–1945 (age 32)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Nikolay Dmitrievitsj Doegin

1921–1945 (age 24)

Brandenburg

Pavel Konstantinovitsj Erin

1909–1945 (age 36)

Brandenburg

Soviet military officer who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Aleksey Yerofeyev

1923–1945 (age 22)

Brandenburg

Grigoriy Borisovitsj Zlotin

1923–1945 (age 22)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Sergey Ilyin

1925–1945 (age 20)

Brandenburg

Gerasim Korolyov

1924–1945 (age 21)

Brandenburg

Soviet serviceman who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Michejew

1900–1945 (age 45)

Brandenburg

Ivan Ivanovitsj Landik

1919–1945 (age 26)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Fyodor Marchenko

1919–1945 (age 26)

Brandenburg

Vasiliy Michaylovitsj Nikitin

1918–1945 (age 27)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Pjotr Andreevitsj Rodigin

1922–1945 (age 23)

Brandenburg

Pavel Vasilevitsj Roedakov

1918–1945 (age 27)

Brandenburg

Soviet soldier who died in Brandenburg in 1945.

Aleksandr Vasilevitsj Savelev

1917–1949 (age 32)

Brandenburg

Aleksandr Ivanovitsj (Geroy Sovetskogo Sojuza) Sidorov

1921–1945 (age 24)

Brandenburg

Olga Bancic

1912–1944 (age 32)

Karlsruhe

Bernhard Rust

1883–1945 (age 62)

Schleswig-Holstein

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

1878–1943 (age 65)

Lower Saxony

Prince Waldemar of Prussia

1889–1945 (age 56)

Hesse