Feldpost number ID

[SiPo]

Hi All,

Need some help identifying feldpost No. 27515. Date is either late Feb '44 or late Nov '44?

Thank's in advance.

G

[Jonathan M]

27515

(2.1.1940-27.4.1940) Ortskommandantur (II) 706,
(25.9.1940-15.2.1941) Kreis-Kommandantur 706,
(15.2.1942-30.7.1942) gestrichen,
(10.2.1943-23.8.1943) Kommandeur d. Sicherheitspolizei (SD) Stalino.

regards
Jonathan

[Larry deZeng]

It might be noted that sometimes these entries can be misleading. The Germans pulled out of Stalino during the first week of September 1943 and retreated toward Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Melitopol. I don't know where the KdS Stalino ended up after that. It may even have left Russia by February 1944.

--Larry

[Jonathan M]

Would the unit still have been called KdS Stalino Larry?

Jonathan

[Larry deZeng]

Hi Jonathan -

"Officially", possibly yes because its Feldpostnummer was never changed to reflect new locations nor was it deleted from the FpÜ, which means it continued to exist to the end of the war. This was an inherent problem the Germans had with units that had a place name as part of its official designation. Virtually all of these units were forced to retreat from the occupied territories in the last couple of years of the war, and many changed locations dozens and dozens of times as they withdrew toward Germany. So what to do? Change its Feldpost designation dozens and dozens of times? That would be ridiculous. So the decision was made not to do that. So BdS Stalino, which was no more than an office with from 4 to 16 or so officers and men, retained its original name even though it moved many times after it left Stalino.

Kds Stalino : SS–Obersturmbannfuhrer Erich Körting (geb. 22.1.1902 in Teerten/Dessau ; SS Nr. 3 395 ; Ostub – 20.4.1941) He was KdS Stalino from 25 Jul 42 – Sep 43 and came under the two SSPF Stalino, SS-Oberf. Dr. Rudolf Heuckenkamp and SS-Brigadeführer Willy Tensfeld
Jul 42 - Aug. 43.

Körting was the former commander of Vorkommando Moskau (Einsatzkommando B) and is tied to the massacre of 3,457 people in Oct 41.

Vorkommando Moskau
AKA Sonderkommando 7c
Was to have operated in Moscow until it became apparent that Moscow would not fall and was incorporated in Sonderkommando 7b
Active Smolensk
MURDERS......4.660
1. SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. Franz Six – (20th JUNE 1941-20TH AUGUST 1941)
2. SS-Obersturmbannführer Waldemar Klingelhöfer – (AUGUST 1941-SEPTEMBER 1941)
3. SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Erich Körting – (SEPTEMBER 1941-DECEMBER 1941)
4. SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Friedrich Buchardt – (DECEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1942)
5. SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Bock – (JANUARY 1942-JUNE 1942)


--Larry

[Jonathan M]

Many thanks Larry.

jonathan

[SiPo]

Fp 27515

Hi Guys,

Thank's for all the great info. The FP stamp is on a copy of a telegram sent to a Gestapo guy who was in Einsatzgruppe C, SK 4b, which was typed by an SS Scha. and the FP stamp stamped over the top of the sig. Looks like when SK 4b was disbanded, he transferred to the office in Stalino.

G