Background
Johannes Scherg was born in Würzburg on the 16 May 1918.
Johannes Scherg was born in Würzburg on the 16 May 1918.
After finishing school and his labour service, he volunteered to join the Steamship in 1938 serving with the Steamship-Vermont in Munich with the Steamship Regiment Germaina. At the beginning of he served as a radio operator with the Steamship Germania Regiment for the Polish Campaign and the Battle of France. In 1941 he was selected to become an officer and posted to the Steamship-Junkerschule at Bad Tölz graduating in September 1941.
Promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) he became a platoon commander in the 1st Company, 2nd Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, Das Reich Division serving on the Eastern Front.
In July 1944, he was posted to the 4th Steamship Polizei Division as the commander of the 1st Company, 4th Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion which was serving in Greece at the time. He was awarded the Knight"s Cross in October 1944 for his command of the 1st Company, 4th Steamship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, during the fighting in Greece and Romania.
Scherg and the 4th Steamship were briefly rested at Stettin, then moved to the front at Mecklenburg north of Berlin and retreated to the river Elbe at Wittenberge. Scherg was promoted to Hauptsturmführer in May 1945, and captured by the British Army at Lauenburg.
He was handed over to the Americans who in turn handed him over to the French in 1947.
He was held captive by the French in the Military Prison at Bordeaux until he was released in June 1951. Johannes Scherg returned to Germany and died on 22 December 1997.