Stalingrad Related Soldbuch Help Reguired

[hucks216]

Hi,
Amongst the SB's that I have is one belonging to a pionier of the 376ID. He was involved in the Stalingrad campaign but was evacuated from the area due to contracting typhus. What I would like to know is, when? I hope that I have taken photos of the relevant pages that show when he was evacuated away from the Stalingrad area. The soldbuch also has the Feldpost numbers 18669 & 43380 listed, the latter one possibly relates to Kriegslazarett 3/601 - does anyone know where this was located (there isn't much information on the Lexikon-der-wehrmacht website with regards to these units)?
Any and all information is appreciated.

[hucks216]

eldpost Nr's...

[Ian Jewison]

FP Nr. 43380 did indeed belong to 3. Leichtkranken-Kriegslazarett, Kriegslazarett-Abteilung 601.

FP Nr. 18669 belonged to Stab Pionier-Bataillon 376 during your time frame (other units before and after Stalingrad!)

Your guy was admitted into Kriegslazarett 3/601 on 6.10.1942 suffering from typhoid. Of course this is the day he was admitted and could well have been suffering for some time. It could have been an immediate transfer to Kriegslazarett or he could have been attended to by his Truppenarzt (Troop Doctor) some days before.

27.11.1942 he was transferred to a rear hospital, however on 2.12.1942 he arrives at Kriegslazarett V/528 R suffering from dysentry.

I will take a look in Tessin when I can, however there normally is not much on War Hospitals and Battalions in 1942/43, normally where they were at the end of the war.

/Ian

[hucks216]

Thanks Ian, that is very helpful.
I have been able to work out that upon his, eventual, recovery he went on to serve with a POW guard unit (Ldschtz Btl 442) based in Bavaria before he was hospitalized again in April 1945 with Tuberculosis!!! Not the sort of hat-trick I would want!

[Larry deZeng]

.......the latter one possibly relates to Kriegslazarett 3/601 - does anyone know where this was located (there isn't much information on the Lexikon-der-wehrmacht website with regards to these units)?

The wartime locations for the large number of Lazaretten, Reserve Lazaretten, Kriegslazaretten, Feldlazaretten, Ortslazaretten, Kurlazaretten, etc., has never been researched and compiled by anyone, at least that I am aware of. However, there is one study that does contain a great deal of information about these, including periodic location information:

Fischer, Hubert. Der deutsche Sanitätsdienst 1921-1945. 5 Bde (Osnabrück: Biblio-Verlag, 1982-1988).

A very large number of studies was also done after the war by the U.S. Army Medical Corps that would be quite helpful in compiling information on where these hospitals were located on various dates. I believe these studies, or the majority of them, are available at the Army Library in the Pentagon in Washington.

This would be a great research project for someone with a big interest in the subject and the time and resources to work on it.

--Larry

[Larry deZeng]

BTW, Kriegslaz. 3/601 was in South Russia during 1942 under O.Qu. Schwarzes Meer) (Senior Quartermaster Black Sea). That may mean it was in the Mariupol-Taganrog-Rostov area, in Crimea or possibly in North Caucasia. In 1944-45 it was located in Wien-Baden (Baden near Vienna) under Heeresgruppe Süd. That's about all of interest that Tessin has to say about it.

--Larry

[hucks216]

Thanks for the additional info. Research of the various lazaretts would indeed be a great assistance as I am sure it would go along way to filling in the blanks for those researching soldbuchs/wehrpasses & wound badge citations considering the percentage of Wehrmacht personnel that were wounded/contracted diseases during the war and passed through the lazarett system.