Erich Grützner [SEP] place of death
Erich Grützner
Erich Grützner (30 July 1910 in Pirna – 21 November 2001 in Leipzig) was an East German Trades unionist and a senior official in the country's ruling SED (party).
Life.
Grützner was born in so-called "Saxon Switzerland", a then prosperous mining region on the German frontier with Bohemia. His father was a steel smelter. He attended junior school in Copitz, a small town which since 1923 has been incorporated in the Pirna agglomeration. After leaving school, from 1925
the other, Curtis paired with observer Second Lieutenant H Munro later that day. They shot an Albatros D.V down in flames off Westende, West Flanders. Their victim is believed by some to have been Leutnant Franz Pernet of Jasta Boelcke. Pernet was the stepson of General Erich Ludendorff. Curtis had his fourteenth aerial victory on 14 September 1917 when his Bristol F.2b (A7224), with Uniacke as observer, defeated an Albatros D.V, destroying it over Ghistelles. His final triumph took place on 17 Sep 1917 when, with Uniacke