Here is a neat grouping from a collection I recently bought. To find a soldier's Wehrpass and Soldbuch together is not so unusual but to have 2 Wehrpaesse and 3 Soldbuecher to the same soldier strikes me as pretty unusual! I plan to sell this but wanted to share it here first. Josef Meiler enlisted in February 1941 and spent most of the war putting up telegraph lines. He served in Lg. Nachr. Rgt. 13, Ln. Rgt. 10, and Luft Nachr. Schule 1, and later in some more unusual units: Ln. Vers. Rgt. (mot.) Berlin, Gefechtskompanie z. b. V. 2, and Luftnachrichten Regiment des Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe. He served for a time in East Prussia and Lithuania but apparently spent most of the war within Germany. In January 1945 he was transferred to the Heer and assigned to Gren. Ers. Btl. 192. While serving in the Heer, he was killed in action in Niederschreibersdorf, Silesia, on 1 April 1945. Here are the scans of the first Wehrpass, issued in 1940.
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The book has a picture of 19-year-old Meiler in civilian clothes. -
He served with the RAD in 1940, supporting the Luftwaffe.Comment
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He was trained to use the K98 and as a Telegrafenbauer.Comment
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He was promoted to Gefreiter in 1942 and then in February 1944 apparently demoted to the lowest enlisted rank.Comment
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His second Wehrpass was issued in May 1944. The photo was never entered and it was never signed. The first Wehrpass still had plenty of space and is in fine shape, I am not sure why he would have needed a new one, unless it had something to do with his demotion.Comment
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The first Luftwaffe Soldbuch, issued in 1941Comment
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The Soldbuch has a lot of entries.Comment
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The second Luftwaffe Soldbuch was issued on the same day the the rank demotion was entered in his Wehrpass. This lists his new rank, Funker.Comment
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This one was carried for a shorter time and has fewer entries.Comment
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He was hospitalized twice, due to illness.Comment
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The last book, the Heer Soldbuch. The ID photo is from 1941 and must have been reused from an earlier ID.Comment
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The Soldbuch was issued in 1945 and has few entries.Comment
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Last of the scans. The KIA entry was added one month after Meiler had been killed. I would be curious to see if anyone else has a grouping of more WP/SB from the same persion. Any comments on this grouping are appreciated.Comment
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