Finland Lt Paul Pollner Pilot in Finland 1918

[christerd]

While looking through papers in the War archive in Stockholm Sweden , I found an interesting letter about this

Danish officer who was seeking service in Finnsih Airforce April 4th 1918 during the Liberty War .

He had been taking into hospital after attacking a servent and was considered to have weak nerves , but he was an excellent pilot and the Finnish Air Force , returned the letter and said he was welcome !

He had his flying License in Germany 1914 if I am right ? As a student

I wonder what happened to him ?

If I find anything I post here

[Dave Danner]

There was a Løjtnant P.B. Pollner in the 2den Artilleribataillon of the Fæstningsartilleriregiment in Copenhagen. He first shows up in the 1916 Statskalender in the list of the battalion's Løjtnanter af Forstœrkningen og Sekondløjtnanter, and is no longer there in 1918. Perhaps him?

Edited June 26, 2013 by Dave Danner

[Philip Donner]

Dear @christerd. It is quite some time since you asked about the later whereabouts of Paul Pollner after the end of the Finnish civil war 1918. Perhaps you have found out by yourself that during WWII he was active in the Danish movement of resistance. The accounts indicate that after having been caught by Gestapo, he committed suicide in order to safeguard his compatriots while being threatened by torture.

 

This is certainly something I would like learn about, as I'm also most interested in Paul Pollner's life history. The reason is that Paul Pollner was closely associated with my grandmother Margareta Sofia Ramsay immediately after the end of the civil war. A few days ago I received a transliteration of the diary of Maggie's sister, 'Caje' Carin Quesnay (b. Ramsay), which contains quite a lot of information on Pollner's and lieutenant Peter de Hemmer Gudme's doings during the period in question.

Edited September 30 by Philip Donner
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[Philip Donner]

Other sources tell an altogether different story: An article in Fyens Stiftstidende indicates that Paul (later possibly Poul) was instead a friend of Hermann Göring.

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søndag den 15. juni, blev der til ære for Göring holdt en stor festmiddag på Pollners moders herregård, Åløkkegård, uden for Odense.

"On 15th of June /1919/ a great dinner party was arranged to honour Göring at the mansion of Pollner's mother, Åløkkegård, outside Odense". The same source states that Pollner finished his engineering studies, and died 78 years old in 1966. - Can we clarify these contradictory accounts? Yes, we can. It was the other lieutenant, Peter de Hemmer Gudme, who was the resistance man. He died in 1944 in the Gestapo prison. Sorry for the confusion.

Edited October 1 by Philip Donner
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