ROBERT MEIER
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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Robert Meier (March 10, 1897 - January 29, 2007) was, at the age of 109, Germany's oldest living man, a combat-wounded veteran of the First World War and one of Germany's last surviving veterans of that war.
Meier became Germany's oldest living man on March 2, 2005, when he was age 107, following the death of 111-year-old Hermann Dornemann.
He held that title for about two years.
Germany's oldest living person at the time of his death was 111-year-old Irmgard von Stephani (born September 20, 1895).
Meier lived in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was a rarity in being a survivor of the infantry, having seen combat in France on the Western front.
Meier may also have been the last person to have met Kaiser Wilhelm II in person (i.e., as the Kaiser: he abdicated in 1918).
He was also a Second World War veteran, spending some time as a prisoner of war in the Caucasus.
