Wehrmachtbeamte Soldbuch - Kampf um Wien 1945

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I bought this soldbuch pretty cheap resently, bought it without knowing what it exacly was and what was in it.
This is the first Wehrmachtbeamte soldbuch that i got, so at first i had no idea about the ranks on page 1.
At the opening of the soldbuch Konrad Nowak was an Assistent.
He got promoted to Sekretär (administrative Leutnant) later on.
The soldbuch isn´t very spectaculair compaired to combat soldbücher.
He was at least in the following units:

62 ID, Stab.
Wh-Nachr-Kdtr. Wien
Generalkommando LI Armeekorps
Transportkommandeur Brünn
Transportkommandeur Linz
45 ID, Stab.
183 Volks-grenadier-Division, Stab.
Heeresstandortverwaltung Wien
Aufkl.Ers.u.Aus.Abt. 11, Ausbildungs Schwadron.
Aufklärung-Ersatz-Abteilung 11

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This soldbuch gets interesting in 1945.
After his hospitalation for code "25" (Skin and connective tissue problems).
He gets send to Aufkl.Ers.u.Aus.Abt. 11, Ausbildungs Schwadron, located in Wien (Vienna).
Here he gets training as this unit is written in part "B" of page 4.
He gets a new rank, Wachtmeiser, which is "lower" then his previous administrative rank.
This unit also re-signs the soldbuch on page 2.. i have never seen this before.
And i wonder what the reason for this is? i quess because he transfers to a combat rank?
In the following time after this he gets issued new items and a new pistol.

When the Russians came closer to Wien, Division Nr.177 was ordered to form various Kampfgruppe to fight against the Russians.
Aufklärung-Ersatz-Abteilung 11 (which was part of Div.Nr.177) was also formed into a Kampfgruppe: "Kampfgruppe 11/XVII".
This Kampfgruppe was located in Wien according to what i found on the internet.
But i don´t know what this unit exacly did during the battle for Wien.
I do know that Konrad Nowak was in this unit at least from 28-2 till 24-4-1945 as those dates are written on page 4 and 17.

On the glued in equipment page you can see a 3-5-1945 date, so he survived the Wien battles.
On page 19 there is some text saying that he received 300 Reichsmark for some reason on 14-5-1945
He received it from Reserve-Lazarett Prachatitz, which is located in Czech.
I wonder how he ended up there? retreat? wounded?

I´m looking for opinions about the 1945 part of this soldbuch.. and especialy the re-signing of the soldbuch on page 2.
Was this done often?

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I know that these kind of soldbücher are not as spectaculair as combat SB´s but i hope someone can answer the questions i have:

* Has anyone seen such a re-signing as on page 2 of this soldbuch before?

* Is there a specific reason to do this?

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Anyway, in my search for info about the battle around Vienna 1945 i found some more info.
Source is "Combat in Vienna, 29Mar-16Apr 1945" by "General der Infanterie Rudolf von Beunau", written for the US-Army.

Here are 2 extracts from it, it looks like the unit was under command of 2.SS-PzDiv. for some time:

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Hello,

I do like the Soldbuch - the late war entries.

All I can tell you at the moment is that the "Kampfgruppe 11/XVII" was at one time assigned to the 357. ID outside of Wien in April. I need to look up the details and will contact you.

Erich

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The resigning on page two is a mistake. All corrections or additions are to be noted on page 3. The Zeitstempel on page one is a mistake also. It was not to be used in Army and Waffen SS books. Who ever the Admin person was, he made his share of mistakes.
Jeff

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Hello,

I do like the Soldbuch - the late war entries.

All I can tell you at the moment is that the "Kampfgruppe 11/XVII" was at one time assigned to the 357. ID outside of Wien in April. I need to look up the details and will contact you.

Erich

Thats some great info, i hope you can find the details!

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The resigning on page two is a mistake. All corrections or additions are to be noted on page 3. The Zeitstempel on page one is a mistake also. It was not to be used in Army and Waffen SS books. Who ever the Admin person was, he made his share of mistakes.
Jeff

Thanks for the help!
I see what you mean with the Zeitstempel, a mistake indeed!
But what do you mean with the resigning being a mistake?
It was noted on page 3 that its resigned.
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