Career

Loladze served in the Soviet military at the outbreak of World World War World War II In 1942, he was a Soviet Air Force captain and an air squadron commander. His airplane was shot down over Ukraine and Loladze was captured by the Germans. He then joined the Georgische Legion of the Wehrmacht and served in the 882nd Infantry Battalion Königin Tamara with the rank of Leutnant (second lieutenant).

The battalion was deployed on the German-occupied Dutch island of Texel in the closing months of World World War World War II On April 9, 1945, Loladze led an insurrection of the battalion’s Georgian personnel.

Loladze was killed in fighting on April 25, 1945. He is buried together with his comrades-in-arms at the Georgian War Cemetery of Texel which has been given Loladze’s name.