1st Class EK question and a Document to a Soldier KIA at Stalingrad

[Jody]

Hello folks,
I have had this EK a long time and I plan on displaying it with a 1st clas document to a soldier killed at Stalingrad. I also have the man's EK 2nd class, Eastern Front, and Black Wound badge documents.

Is the maker of this cross Rudolf Waechtler und Lange (#100)?

Thank You,
Jody

Obverse:

[Jody]

Ek

Reverse:

[Jody]

EK Document

Here is the document I will display it with. BTW, is there any ideas to the signature on the document?

[Darrell]

Hello folks,
...Is the maker of this cross Rudolf Waechtler und Lange (#100)?

Thank You,
Jody

Obverse:

Yep

[Hank C.]

Here is the document I will display it with. BTW, is there any ideas to the signature on the document?

Hube.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...nen/16PD-R.htm
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...H/HubeHV-R.htm

best
Hank

[Jody]

Document

Hube.
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...nen/16PD-R.htm
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...H/HubeHV-R.htm

best
Hank

Hi Hank,
Thank you and that is great and a diamond winner to boot. I guess getting the diamonds ended up getting him killed. So much for visiting the Fuehrer.

Regards,
Jody

[Jody]

Document

Hello Hank,
It looks like Hube signed his 2nd class document as well. Look at the dates on both documents he got them almost exactly a year apart.

Regards,
Jody

[Robert T.]

Is he the same soldier..?


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E2154567
Nachname: Kowalski
Vorname: Josef
Dienstgrad:
Geburtsdatum: 24.01.1915
Geburtsort:
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 01.01.1943
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Stadt Stalingrad

(Google translation)

According to our information, the aforementioned person missing since 01.01.1943.

Nearly 65 years after the end of the bitter battles of Stalingrad have thousands of families in Germany is still no indication on the whereabouts of their relatives, their traces in 1942/43 between Don and Volga have lost. To those still a place of personal memories to create the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge the identity of Stalingrad missing in the German military cemetery at Volgograd in Rossoschka documented. To 107 granite cubes with a side length of 1.50 meters and a height of 1.35 meters, in alphabetical order of 103 234 names are engraved. The name of the above is on the dice 45, panel 1 records. A photo you like to order from us.
In a commemorative book, we have the name and personal data of the above listed. You can enjoy an extract from us.
In search of the German Red Cross was already at an earlier date of a Suchantrag after the Disappeared, which also remains valid and will be prosecuted. Nevertheless, should you do with the facility in Munich in touch. Perhaps could in the current analysis of documents from various archives of the former Soviet Union or the countries of the Eastern Bloc, the fate of missing persons has already clarified, the information but due to a lack of current address has not given away. The browser will process your request quickly and you in the mail about the current state of information.

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Robert

[jt327gir]

Yep

The top beading row is "scrunched" (more beading than on the other arms), and it also has the flaw on the right beading of the 12 o'clock arm near the cross center (a few of the beads there are also "scrunched"), making your cross a textbook W&L. Nice cross and document!

[Simon O.]

For a lowly infantry obergefreiter to get the EKI this early he must have REALLY earned it. It's a long shot but just sometimes you can pick up the name, action and award in amongst the surviving unit records.