NEW ULM JOURNAL, 6 January 2007
[Photos provided by Jim Aufderheide]
NEW ULM— Robert ‘Buddy’ Aufderheide, 87, of New Ulm died Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007 at the Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in New Ulm with Rev. Todd Nelsen officiating. Burial will be in the New Ulm City Cemetery with full military honors conducted by the New Ulm Area Comrades of Valor. Visitation will be 3—6 p.m. Saturday at Schmucker Funeral Service in New Ulm and one hour prior to the service at the church.Robert George Aufderheide, the son of Karl and Clara (Weddendorf) Aufderheide, was born May 15, 1919 in New Ulm. He graduated from New Ulm Public High School in 1937 and from MacCalester College in 1942. He participated in high school, Legion, college, and New Ulm town baseball, with his teams winning two state championships in 1934 and 1941. Buddy was also a member of the 1937 State Basketball Team. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, receiving an honorable discharge in 1946. He later served during the Korean Conflict in 1951.
Buddy was united in marriage to Helen Simones June 18, 1944 in Minneapolis. The couple made their home in New Ulm where Buddy was co-owner of the New Ulm Brick and Tile Yard until his retirement in 1982. He was inducted into the New Ulm Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame and Legion Hall of Fame in 1987. Buddy was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in New Ulm where he served as choir director, organist and also as a choir member. In addition to baseball and basketball, he enjoyed bridge, wild flowers, bird watching, crossword puzzles, and coin and stamp collecting.
The Karl Aufderheide Family: Carl Jr., Robert "Buddy", Ruth, Clara Weddendorf Aufderheide, Karl Sr. (seated), and John "Jack"
Survivors include his son, Dale Aufderheide and his wife Lois; daughter, Diane Aufderheide and her special friend Stuart Klotz, all of New Ulm; five grandchildren, Mark Winterfeldt, Jr. and his wife Jessica, Karl Winterfeldt and his wife Shawn, Adam Winterfeldt and his fiancée Lindsey Davis, Bob Aufderheide, Travis Aufderheide; three great grandchildren, Hope, Grace, and Jaden Winterfeldt; nieces and nephews. Buddy was preceded in death by his wife, Helen on Oct. 31, 2006; his parents; brothers, John ‘Jack’ Aufderheide and his wife Joyce, Carl Aufderheide and his wife Janet; twin sister, Ruth Salter and her husband Bill.
Section: Obituaries Posted: 1/6/2007
3 comments:
Was this Jack Aufderheide the same man who bailed out of a damaged bomber over Switzerland during World War II?
Dwight, I don't know if anyone has responded to you. Jack Aufderheide did bail out of a bomber over Switzerland. You could get more information from his son Jim Aufderheide, jaufderheide@comcast.net. I translated a Swiss newspaper article for Jim reporting on this incident.
Philip Graupner
Here is the translated newspaper article:
Guntershausen, 11 April. (Private telephone) At about 11:25 a.m. on Wednesday, we saw a foreign bomber-plane south of Guntershausen. A long trail of smoke indicated a defect of the machine. A few seconds later we already noticed two white dots very high up, which rapidly grew larger. In very short intervals, another nine followed, now distinctly recognizable as parachutes. The machine continued quite calmly on in the direction of Lake Constance (Bodensee). As was discovered later, it was without any crew.
It was interesting to observe how a company of soldiers that was then serving in the area, sprang into action. Within two or three minutes, about twenty soldiers had been loaded onto a truck and were driving at full speed in the direction of the parachutes being carried downwind. Just outside Eschlikon, three of the American pilots were spotted. The local militia, which had been immediately notified, was also quickly in place. Within about one and one-half hours, they succeeded in apprehending the entire eleven-man crew of the plane in and around Eschlikon, Wilderswil, Bichelsee and Braunau-Wengi. Three pilots were wounded, one of which had already been shot during an air-battle at about 9:45 a.m.
After completing their mission, the first mentioned troop returned at full speed to their base while the local militia turned the crew over to the territorial command post.
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