Robert Meier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German centenerian
Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1897
Place of Birth: Witten, Free State of Prussia, Germany
Date of Death: 29-Jan-2007
Profession: soldier
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Robert Meier
- Robert Meier (March 10, 1897 – January 29, 2007) was, at the age of 109, Germany's oldest living man, a combat-wounded veteran of the First World War and one of Germany's last surviving veterans of that war.
- 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 (i.e., 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 travel.
- 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.
- He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany for 70 years, and worked as a railway worker.
- His wife Ella died in 1967; they had a son and a daughter. 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 it.
- He was in good health keeping his own household until late 2006, and hospitalized only a few weeks before his death: he had a bad fall right before Christmas Day and died about five weeks later on, just one day before he was scheduled to have an ulcer operation.
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