Researching an SS Totenkopfring to Heiger

[Michael Kuligowski]

Hello !!!!
how about just name ???? How to trace somebody just by last name ???
I have an SS ring awarded 21.6.39 to S.lb. Heiger.. how to trace that man ?? I asked Don Boyle for help - but he couldnt find anything..
Maybe somebody here on forum can help ???

[Rick Research]

H-e-i-g-e-r?

I don't find any SS officer by that name in December 1937, which is the last "all ranks of officers" Seniority List that I have. (The 1942 reprint I have is only Standartenführer up and the 1944 ones are only Sturmbannführers and up).

French MacLean's books on concentration camp and Einsatzgruppen officers also have no one by that name.

Two possibilities:

1) Heiger was NOT an officer at all. NCOs also received these rings.

2) It might be a fake? All I know about these rings is that there are lots of fake ones.

[Michael Kuligowski]

hello Rick !!!!
thank You very much for posting..
ring was inspected in person by Don Boyle.. and has his certificate..

yep.. spelling is correct - see picture..
it's a real mystery for me..

[Michael Kuligowski]

.... hmm.. so I guess it will be hard to find original owner of this ring..

[J.N. Houterman]

Hello !!!!
how about just name ???? How to trace somebody just by last name ???
I have an SS ring awarded 21.6.39 to S.lb. Heiger.. how to trace that man ?? I asked Don Boyle for help - but he couldnt find anything..
Maybe somebody here on forum can help ???

Could it be:
Heiger, Willibald
Born 05.06.1908
SS-Obersturmführer 11.09.1938
76. Standarte
Partei-Nr. 197750
SS-Nr. 49321

The Dienstaltersliste from 01.12.1938 doesn't list the ring for him, though.

Cheers,

Hans

[Michael Kuligowski]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank You so much !!!!!! Hans !!!!!

hopefully thats the guy The Dienstaltersliste from 01.12.1938 may not show his ring because it was awarded 21.6.39...

Thank You very much !! You just made my day

[Simon V.]

Could it be:
Heiger, Willibald
Born 05.06.1908
SS-Obersturmführer 11.09.1938
76. Standarte
Partei-Nr. 197750
SS-Nr. 49321

The Dienstaltersliste from 01.12.1938 doesn't list the ring for him, though.

Cheers,

Hans

Are u sure Heiger was already an Ostuf. in 1938?
Or is this his Algemeine SS Rank as John Moore lists him as an
Oscha. in the Waffen-SS in July 1940.

[J.N. Houterman]

09.11.1936 Untersturmführer
11.09.1938 Obersturmführer

Source: Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP (SS), Stand vom 1. Dezember 1938

It is just one list. No division in Allgemeine / Waffen-SS.

Additional information from the database of the Volksbund deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="94%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"><TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Nachname:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%">Heiger </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Vorname:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%">Willibald </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Dienstgrad:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%">Obersturmführer </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Geburtsdatum:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%">05.06.1908 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Geburtsort:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%"> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%">Todes-/Vermisstendatum:</TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%">10.04.1944 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=headtabelle width="36%"></TD><TD class=bodytabelle width="64%"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD width="100%">

Willibald Heiger ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Champigny-St. Andre (Frankreich) .
Endgrablage: Block 9 Grab 1766
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Cheers,

Hans

[Michael Kuligowski]

hello !! Thank You guys.. this story is becoming more interesting with every single post... If he is the guy who was awarded this ring - how this ring ened in Poland ?!~?!?! I guess we will never know....

If he died in 1944 in france - propably he was a member of some w-ss unit ??? can we confirm that ??? any chance to trace his awards.... or combat unit ???

You guys are the greatest help on this planet !! thanks for all !!!!

[Simon V.]

Ostuf. Willbald Heiger was killed on 10.08.44 and not on 10.04.44 like the Volksbund says. Otherwise he would be burried on the Eastfront and not in France as the LAH was still on the eastfront in the beginning of April '44.

The Volksbund site contains more then 1 error...
the date on his grave gives 10.08.44

Cheers
Simon

[Michael Kuligowski]

that's why I was thinking that he died in october - in US date is: mm/dd/yyyy.. so lets say month names
he died on August 10 1944 ??

[Simon V.]

Yes he died the 10th of August 1944 in St.Barthélemy (France)

[Edwin Meinsma]

According to John P. Moore's Führerliste der Waffen-SS, SS-Ostuf. Heiger was the Chef of the 4./SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 2 from July 1944.

Regards,
Edwin