www.U-35.comThe Homepage for U-35, a Type VII U-Boat
... 1936 - 1939 ...
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U-35 crew member Gerhard Freier
Gerhard Freier was born on 11 April 1919, and became a crewmember of U-35 in April 1939.
He was assigned POW Number 37318.
 The crew of U-35 arriving at a Scottish port after being captured. The original caption to this wartime magazine photo read: "Most of the forty-three prisoners expressed distaste at their task of sinking defenceless ships and seemed glad that their share in this type of warfare is finished." Pictured: Ernst
Weber, Siegfried Kienast, Gerhard Freier, Wilhelm Janssen,
Siegfried Bruse, Johann van der Pütten, Martin Müller, Karl Sommerer. [19,33,38]
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 U-35 crewmembers assembled at the Grande-Ligne POW camp in Quebec, Canada, 1944.
Back row, left to right: Gerhard Freier, Heinz Erchen, Hans-Joachim Roters, Gerhard Stamer, Paul Fichte Front row (seated), left to right: Albert Schrader, Siegfried Kienast, Werner Lott, Peter Schwarz, Kurt Grosser [33] |
 Another photo of U-35 crewmembers at Grande-Ligne. Left to right: Gerhard Freier, Siegfried Kienast,
Dietrich Jahr (U-39),
Albert Schrader, Peter Schwarz, Paul Fichte. [48]
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 Another photo of U-35 crewmembers at Grande-Ligne. Left to right: Siegfried Kienast, Peter Schwarz,
Albert Schrader, Gerhard Freier, Paul Fichte, Kurt Grosser. [48]
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A photo of POWs at Grande-Ligne. Included in the picture from U-35: Paul Fichte, Kurt Grosser, Peter Schwarz, Siegfried Kienast,
Albert Schrader, and Gerhard Freier.
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 POWs assembled at the
Bowmanville POW Camp.
Siegfried Kienast is seated, second from left, and Gerhard Freier is in the back row on the far right. [53] |
 Walter Roloff
with wife Christel Roloff, and Gerhard Freier with wife Gerda
Freier, in 1992. [56]
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Gerhard Freier and Evangelos Angelakos featured in the Greek edition of Deutsche Welle after meeting on 23 October 2009.
Gerhard Freier passed away on 21 September 2010.
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(relative of U-35 Chief Engineer Gerhard Stamer).