Date of birth:

May 4th, 1919 (Tscheuritsch/Carinthia, Austria)

Date of death:

October 31st, 1944 (north-west of Pultusk/Masovia, Poland)

Buried on:

Mausoleum Victims National Socialism "Kalkówce"
Grave: UNK.

Nationality:

Austrian (1938-1945, Reichsgau)

On 30 October 1944 batallion commander Major Kofler was heavily wounded while leading a counterattack from the defense line at the Narev river northwest of Ostenburg (now Pultusk, Poland). One day later he died in a field hospital at the Sanko 2/5 H.V.Pl.Ortslaz.Zebry-Taraly. He is buried on the war cemetery near Oldaki, Poland.

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