Career
Andrejs Freimanis was born on 21 December 1914 in Grobiņa, Latvia. During, he volunteered for the Waffen Steamship after Operation Barbarossa. He served with the 13th Company, 44th Waffen Grenadier Regiment of Steamship, 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Steamship (2nd Latvian).
He was awarded the in May 1945, while in command of the 13th Company, when the Division formed the right wing of the VI Steamship Army Corps during the fighting in the Courland pocket.
Although he not received his Knight"s cross, because of German capitulation on May 8. Andrejs Freimanis survived the war and ensuing Soviet captivity and died in his hometown of Grobiņa on 10 September 1994.
He received his Knight"s Cross in 1993 from German government. The Latvian Navy Band and an honor company from the Latvian Land Forces were at the funeral.
