Who was the last German to surrender in World War I?

unclerick

Lieutenant Colonel Lettow-Vorbeck served in German East Africa which later became Tanganyika. He surrendered november 25th,1918, fourteen days after the war ended in Europe. Col. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964) was remarkable among military commanders of the First World War in that he served for the entire period without ever having suffered defeat. Often compared with the better-known T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - Lettow-Vorbeck similarly was a master of guerrilla warfare, this time in East Africa. With a force never great than 14,000 in total - comprised of 3,000 German and 11,000 Askari (native African) troops - Lettow-Vorbeck ran rings around Allied forces (for the most part British and South African) that were ten times larger than his own. http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/lettowvorbeck.htm Feb 21 10, 1:39 AM

serpa

Some fighting occurred in New Guinea and Detzner's claims are controversial. Serpa thinks he hid for four years. In late November 1918, Detzner received the news of the end of the war from a worker at the Sattelberg Mission Station. He wrote a letter to the Australian commander in Morobe in which he offered his capitulation. On 5 January 1919, he surrendered at the Finschhafen District headquarters, marching with his remaining German troops in a column, and wearing his carefully preserved full-dress uniform. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Detzner Feb 21 10, 9:07 AM