Patriot Guard Riders -- The pain is not alone Berlin, 02.07.2009.



More than 900 people with an ecumenical service in the church bathroom Salzungen farewell taken from the three Army soldiers killed. Among the funeral guests were Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and the Defense Commissioner of the Bundestag, Reinhold Robbe, and Prime Minister of Thuringia Dieter Althaus. "They were good men and true patriots," Jung said in his funeral speech.

Jung said at the funeral Mass Speech (Source: Getty Images / Vedder) View Larger Image "We are deeply saddened and shocked by the loss of these good soldiers. He leads us clearly just what a high price we pay, so that we in Germany live in peace and freedom, "said young guests to the funeral.

TLZ -- The Eichsfeld mourns Oleg Meilinger.

The 21-year-old from Hausen was one of the three Army soldiers who died on Tuesday in northern Afghanistan during a gunfight with insurgents of the radical Islamic Taliban died. Counter clock time was 11:59, the patrol seven kilometers away from Kunduz with automatic weapons shelled.

It developed an hour-long battle. In the case of a crash avoidance maneuvers of armored transport of type "fox" with the three soldiers in a major flood ditch and remained on the roof lie. Because of the battle, the three soldiers could not be saved. Oleg Meilinger had only been a few days in Afghanistan.

Patriot Guard Riders -- On Thursday, 7th May, was attended by family, friends and comrades farewell Sergei Motz. The Senior Corporal was on 29 April 2009 in the Afghan Kunduz fell. At the funeral service were Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung and the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Wolfgang Schneiderhan.

In Bad Saulgau in the St. John Baptist Church was the central memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers instead. Jung said the relatives of his dismay: "We are stunned."

The 21-year-old member of Hauptgefreite was stationed in Donaueschingen Hunter Battalion 292, which is German-French brigade belongs. He served as a soldier with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, ISAF. "The ambushes and suicide attack near Kunduz, where the Hauptgefreite Sergei Motz has fallen and another ten German soldiers were wounded, has given us with brutal clarity, the high price to pay to see that we in Germany live in peace and freedom , "said Jung.

Stabsunteroffizier (Staff Sergeant) Patrick Behlke was one of two German Paratroopers killed during a suicide bomb blast as they searched for a hidden weapons cache in Kunar province, Afghanistan. A further two Canadian soldiers were wounded.

The 25 year old belonged to the 2nd Company, 263rd Paratrooper Battalion. He joined the German Army on New Years Day 2004 and was assigned to the unit after initial training. Patrick had been in Afghanistan since September.

This deployment to Afghanistan was the second abroad. Patrick had served with the EUFOR mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Stabsefreiter (Staff Corporal) Roman Schmidt died at the age of 22 when he and a fellow soldier were killed during a suicide bomb blast as they searched for a hidden weapons cache in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Two Canadian Soldiers were also wounded.

He joined the German Army on New Years Day 2005 and was assigned to the 2nd Company, 263rd Paratrooper Battalion.

Roman had previously been deployed to the Congo and Afghanistan.

Family, comrades and members of the public attended a simple funeral, held in the Holy Cross church in Zweibrucken, on September 1. They were there to farewell Hauptfeldwebel Mischa Meier, who died in a bomb blast in northern Afghanistan on August 27. Meier was 29 years old. He was assigned to the 263rd Paratrooper Battalion.

Six soldiers formed a guard of honour around the coffin of the fallen soldier, with a black framed picture of a smiling young man in uniform in the back ground. The Defence Minister said in his funeral speech, Hauptfeldwebel Meier died for a better, more peaceful future in Afghanistan and the security of our country.

Mischa Meier was an enthusiastic soldier who had only four weeks left to go on his deployment.

German helicopter pilot Freidrich Deininger was due to spend the Christmas holidays and New Years at home with his family in Gutenzell. He decided to get one of his fellow soldiers home and gave up his leave to fly as the co-pilot for the flight on Saturday.

It took some time for the news to filter through the barracks in Baden-Wurttemberg Laupheim. On Sunday it became evident that several of the seven dead in the crash were stationed there.

Six other German service members perished when their Sikorski CH-53 crashed in Kabul on December 21, 2002. Freidrich had more than 7000 hours in the German aviation industry and the CH-53 was his favorite aircraft.

BMI -- Eulogy by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Wolfgang Schauble for three police officers killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan at the funeral ceremony held in Berlin, 18 August 2007

We mourn for three police officers who were killed while performing their duties on behalf of the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police.

We mourn the loss of Kriminaloberkommissar Jorg Ringel, Polizeiobermeister Mario Keller, and Polizeiobermeister Alexander Stoffels.

We mourn with their families, their wives and partners, their children, parents, brothers and sisters, with their friends and colleagues in the police forces of the Federation and the Länder.

Master Sergeant Thomas Kochert, 29, and Master Sergeant Mike Rubel, 27, were killed on March 6, 2002, when they went to defuse a SA-3 air defense rocket near Kabul. They were both assigned to Kampfmittelbeseitigungskompanie 11 stationed in Munster.

They are the first two members of the German military to lose their lives in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Three Danish peacekeepers were also killed in the detonation.

The tasks of the unit were to clear, by defusing or destroying, unexploded ordnance both from the battlefield and weapons caches. The ordnance encountered ranged from the Soviet era wars to the present.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday visited Berlin's contingent of troops in northern Afghanistan, three days after a suicide bombing killed three German soldiers there. "Terror threatens us everywhere and there is no absolute protection against terrorist attacks, this we had to learn in a very painful way," Steinmeier told soldiers at the German base at the city of Kunduz.

Three German troops died and five were wounded in a powerful blast while patrolling in a market in the city last Saturday. Five Afghan civilians were also killed.
Michael Diebel