Robert Meier [SEP] conflict
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.
In October 2006, Robert Meier met then 110-year-old Henry Allingham, the oldest living British World War I veteran, in his hometown. France's oldest veteran ever, 111-year-
Robert Meier
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 Dörnemann. Meier lived in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia.
He was a rarity in being a survivor