Date of birth:

February 1st, 1918 (Neu Ulm)

Date of death:

September 22nd, 1945 (Soviet Union)

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

00.10.1943: III./ TG-2
00.09.1944: 1./ KG-200

Ofw Vierus was implicated in a plot to assassinate Stalin. He flew Pjotr Tawrin-Schilo, and his wife, Lidia, from Riga to a former German airfield at Kuklow, 150km west of Moscow. Upon landing, in a field near Karmanovo on 5 September, 1944, the pair made it to within 15km of Moscow via motorbike (and presumed discovered) when they were stopped at a roadblock. Vierus, unaware of their operation, tried to return to German lines, when he and the crew were captured at Welikije-Luki on 9 September, 1944. They were found guilty of being the crewof a spy transport and were sentenced to death by the NKVD.
The sentence was carried out on 22 September, 1945. Remaining crew: Gerhard Haberecht, R/O; Uffz Wilhelm Braun, Mech 1; Eugen Hetterich, Mech 2; Gerhard Schneider, Gnr and Gerhard Tiedt, Obs (blha-bibliothek.brandenburg.de via H.D.Zemke).
His remains are believed to have been returned by the Soviets after the war (1998)

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• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.