Help. What happened to...?

[McCulloh]

I traded a few British medals for a Wehrpass to one Freidrich Solchow of Berlin who served in WW1 in a cavalry Regt (more on that later. Apparently Herr Solchow was called up in 1939 in Berlin 4 Komp. Kraft. Ers. Abt. 3 in Rathenow-but then what happened? Can anybody translate this for me? I would be very grateful. I suspect he was rejected on health grounds as the book seems to stop abruptly in December, 1939.
Danke sehr.
JeMc

[Ian Jewison]

Ooops hit the wrong button and edited your text away!

Basically he was medially fit for discharge...then discharged!
If he had served WWI he could well have been too old or medically unfit for frontline service during WWI...many were called up for the Polish campaign then discharged...some were kept on for the French campaign and also discharged......many were fit and worth keeping so they served through out the war!

/Ian

[Ian Jewison]

His unit roster number was 1061/39 and actually it was of his age why he was discharged...in the Landwehr group (between 35 - 45 years of age).....

[Rick Research]

Jeff: if he had the "Get Out of the Wehrmacht Free Card," the pink "until further notice" exemption slip, it should be tucked inside the cover flap. It was not something HE would have tossed (it had to be produced on demand)... though one never knows with so-called "collectors."

Ian's right-- there is nothing there that actually "explains" WHY, only that he WAS released.

You need the pink exemption sheet.

What about the pages in back from Wehrmeldeämter? Every time he moved, there should be a stamp. I've never seen one yet where the guy stayed in his home town the entire war.

If he was DEAD, there'd be a big "X" on the cover.

This is the white permanent "GOOTWF" slip, NEVER to be called up. I don't happen to have a pink revocable one already scanned.

[McCulloh]

Yup-too old. He was born in 1893 but won the HKX and EK2 in Kurassier Regt 2 in WW1. He was called up in August 1939 as an Unterfeldwebel. He worked as a powerstation manager. He never moved but stayed in Berlin and was "remustered" -or checked on his 50th birthday in Berlin (Dec. 1943). The back has an "H" which has been "x"ed out. I assume he died or ended up in the Volksturmm 18 months later. Sadly-no document, but his WW1 pass still has his "you have a few days to wander around" pass from a Feld Lazarett in 1915.
On his portrit photo he was a DAF member. Nice little group-more WW1 stuff to translate though.