i dont know if i have this totally correct, but i found it a little interesting....
this was only my second Wehrpass....
Richard Wolkenstein from Krotoschin, put into the
Stammbattr./schw. Art.Ers.Abt.65(mot) on april 18 1943. Just your basic reserve unit. few months after that his unit was transferred to Toulon where he stayed for a while. He switched around between various reserve units until January 7th 1944 where he was transferred to the artillery of the 356th infanterie . Then there is nothing else in the Wehrpass about it, but it came with a document with his 1944 battle entries that are near impossible to read..i can make out Rimini in one of the entries. Did a little research and found that the 356th infanterie was in Rimini with the 10th armee at that time.. Pretty standard stuff for a while, but in my Wehrpass i have that he is an EK second class winner on 9/18/44 while his unit was fighting in Rimini, and then an EK first class on 4/6/45.. so this is where it gets cool... if you look up the history of the 356th infantrie..
9.44-12.44 LXXVI 10. Armee C Rimini
1.45 LXXIII 10. Armee C Triest
2.45-3.45 IV. SS 6. Armee Süd Stuhweißenburg
4.45 I. SS 6. Pz. Armee Süd Wiener-Neustadt
5.45 I. SS 6. Pz. Armee Ostmark Wiener-Neustadt
you see that the IV SS Korps who had joined with the 6th armee to carry out the failed operation Konrad III, came right through this area. The 356th Infanterie joined the 6th armee IV SS Korps at StuhweiBenburg for operation Fruhlingserwachen, which failed. While the Korps executed a fighting withdrawal towards Vienna, Richard Wolkenstein was awarded the EK first class. I thought it was cool that he earned his EK's while fighting along side the famous 5th SS Wiking and 3rd SS Totenkopf divisions!
units he served in
his EK awards
im not sure how common this kind of thing was, but i thought it was interesting!
this was only my second Wehrpass....
Richard Wolkenstein from Krotoschin, put into the
Stammbattr./schw. Art.Ers.Abt.65(mot) on april 18 1943. Just your basic reserve unit. few months after that his unit was transferred to Toulon where he stayed for a while. He switched around between various reserve units until January 7th 1944 where he was transferred to the artillery of the 356th infanterie . Then there is nothing else in the Wehrpass about it, but it came with a document with his 1944 battle entries that are near impossible to read..i can make out Rimini in one of the entries. Did a little research and found that the 356th infanterie was in Rimini with the 10th armee at that time.. Pretty standard stuff for a while, but in my Wehrpass i have that he is an EK second class winner on 9/18/44 while his unit was fighting in Rimini, and then an EK first class on 4/6/45.. so this is where it gets cool... if you look up the history of the 356th infantrie..
9.44-12.44 LXXVI 10. Armee C Rimini
1.45 LXXIII 10. Armee C Triest
2.45-3.45 IV. SS 6. Armee Süd Stuhweißenburg
4.45 I. SS 6. Pz. Armee Süd Wiener-Neustadt
5.45 I. SS 6. Pz. Armee Ostmark Wiener-Neustadt
you see that the IV SS Korps who had joined with the 6th armee to carry out the failed operation Konrad III, came right through this area. The 356th Infanterie joined the 6th armee IV SS Korps at StuhweiBenburg for operation Fruhlingserwachen, which failed. While the Korps executed a fighting withdrawal towards Vienna, Richard Wolkenstein was awarded the EK first class. I thought it was cool that he earned his EK's while fighting along side the famous 5th SS Wiking and 3rd SS Totenkopf divisions!
units he served in
his EK awards
im not sure how common this kind of thing was, but i thought it was interesting!
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