Career
Meier became Germany"s oldest living man on March 2, 2005, when he was age 107, following the death of 111-year-old Hermann Dörnemann. Meier lived in Witten, North Rhine-Westphalia. He was a rarity in being a survivor of the infantry, having seen combat in France on the Western front.
Meier may also have been the last person to have met Kaiser Wilhelm II in person (ie, as the Kaiser: he abdicated in 1918).
He was also a Second World War veteran, spending some time as a prisoner of war in the Caucasus. In October 2006, Robert Meier met then 110-year-old Henry Allingham, the oldest living British World War I veteran, in his hometown.
France"s oldest veteran ever, 111-year-old Maurice Floquet, sent his regards, but could not attend, because he was too frail to traveling Floquet subsequently died on the eve of Armistice Day, November 10, 2006.
Robert Meier was born to German parents in Sergejewka, Ukraine, in the Russian Empire.
Robert Meier had a fine sense of humour. In 2006, he let the local press take his picture while he was wearing a World War I spiked helmet and a T-shirt with the slogan "109 - na und?" ("109 - so what?") on lieutenant
