name and number research,

[Ostfries]

Dear fellow forum members, perhaps someone here could/would help me with the research of this name and number in one of my helmets, thanks in advance.

[Gerdan]

I read

Ofw. (Oberfeldwebel) Klüs

1941


KLÜS is a common German family name.

Gerdan

[Ostfries]

minimal information,

I read

Ofw. (Oberfeldwebel) Klüs

1941


KLÜS is a common German family name.

Gerdan

Hello Gerdan, thanks for your response and explanation of the rank, I didn’t thought about it that way but oberfeldwebel sounds very plausible, the name perhaps could also be Krüs or something like that, all in all minimal information to do a proper research I think?.

[RaymondG]

Hi Ostrfies

I have looked at it and I think it is Klüs as well.

With regards to research, you would be surprised and even with this, you may have a chance of finding your man, so give it a go

I am not sure if you have used the German war graves site, but that could be a good start. You never know, Ostfries

Here is a link:

http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/

Good luck with your search

Raymond

[Ostfries]

research,

Hi Ostrfies

I have looked at it and I think it is Klüs as well.

With regards to research, you would be surprised and even with this, you may have a chance of finding your man, so give it a go

I am not sure if you have used the German war graves site, but that could be a good start. You never know, Ostfries

Here is a link:

http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche/

Good luck with your search

Raymond

Hello Raymond, thanks for your advise, I apologies for not knowing my way researching things, until now I only purchased the items and never bothered researching them, perhaps one of the interesting things about this hobby.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o></o>
The only information I have is a rank, oberfeldwebel, name, Klüs, number, 1941 and the certainly information that he must have bin a Fallschirmjäger because its written in a FJ helmet liner, perhaps there’s something possible in doing some research and any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

[Gerdan]

Hi Ostfries,

among the 4,4 million graves of German soldiers in the Volksbund datebase you can only find two(!) soldiers named Klüs (Klues) who died in WWII:


1) Klues, Clems, Soldat, * 3 June 1906 in Wettrup + 4 March 1945 in the Görlitz area. His grave is on the cemetery in Königshain/ near Görlitz/Schlosspark.


2) Klues, Heinrich, Obergefreiter, * 29 June 1914 in Plantlünne + 21 Jan 1943 in Africa. His grave is on the cemetery in Tobruk/Libya (Africa).

These two are the only Klüs (Klues) in the datebase.

In the recent German phonebook you will find the name Klüs (Klues) about 25 times.

Gerdan