Albert Mayer

First Imperial German soldier to die in World War I · Lived 1892 to 1914 · aged 22

Albert Otto Walter Mayer was the first soldier of the Imperial German Army to die in World War I. He died one day before the German Empire formally declared war on France, in the same skirmish in which Jules-André Peugeot became the first French soldier to die.

Albert Mayer is read about 61 times a day, in 9 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 8 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 120 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare

Also in Deutsch Français