Feldgendarmerie! "Halt!"

[HouweTrouwe]

Simon Orchard, many thanks for these beautiful photographs. Do you know more about the unit or where these are taken?

T.K., you are right. Gustav Schwarzenegger was indeed part of the Feldgendarmerie. To be more precise, his unit was Feldgendarmerie-Abteilung 521 (mot.), which was part of Panzergruppe 4 (later Panzerarmee 4). He held the rank of Hauptfeldwebel. I am luckily I bought a grouping of a Feldgendarm a little while ago whose unit was Feldgendarmerie-Abteilung 521 (mot.). He was awarded the Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse and I. Klasse and more. The unit definitly saw action. I included an attachment of him. Josef K. should have atleast seen Gustav S. or know him.

[PBR]

Interesting!
Schwarzy dad definitely met this guy at least once IMHO.

[PBR]

[HouweTrouwe]

Wow! Do you have more where that came from? Is it known in which Kompanie he was positioned? As far I know Gustav S. got wounded in 1942 and finally was discharged in 1944 for illness.

[PBR]

No additional infos on that Bart, sorry.

[Simon O.]

Simon Orchard, many thanks for these beautiful photographs. Do you know more about the unit or where these are taken?

Well i did say in the post

As for the oberfeldwebel kettenhund, it's a choice between the FG company of the XIX Gebirgs Korps or if he travelled with Dietl from Armee HQ. My guess would be Korps

[HouweTrouwe]

As promised a new update to my thread. Albert D. was an Oberfeldwebel (Proof: See attachment, on the photograph you'll see Albert D. wearing shoulderboards of the rank Oberfeldwebel. Please, correct me if I am wrong) in Feldgendarmerietrupp 5, which was part of the 5. Jäger-Division.

He was an experienced driver and had his own car. Earned his deserved Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse in September, 1944. Signed by Friedrich Sixt himself. Albert D. served within this troop - as far I know - from begin till end and probably was captured as I cannot find anything that he was Killed in Action.

[HouweTrouwe]

Some more photographs. Please note that he wears the Edelweiß on his Feldmütze.

[HouweTrouwe]

With the evidence I have I know that Albert D. earned following awards:

- Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42
- Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
- Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern
- Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen in Bronze
- DRL-Sportabzeichen

[Bryant U.]

As promised a new update to my thread. Albert D. was an Oberfeldwebel (Proof: See attachment, on the photograph you'll see Albert D. wearing shoulderboards of the rank Oberfeldwebel. Please, correct me if I am wrong) in Feldgendarmerietrupp 5, which was part of the 5. Jäger-Division.

He was an experienced driver and had his own car. Earned his deserved Eisernes Kreuz II. Klasse in September, 1944. Signed by Friedrich Sixt himself. Albert D. served within this troop - as far I know - from begin till end and probably was captured as I cannot find anything that he was Killed in Action.

Excellent photograph. That is one sharp looking Chain Dog.

-Bryant

[HouweTrouwe]

Excellent photograph. That is one sharp looking Chain Dog.

-Bryant

Many thanks for the positive comment!

[Simon O.]

The helmeted soldier in the photo along with the EKII doc is not the same man. By the looks of it he could be a stabsfeldwebel rather than an oberfeldwebel.

As he's a Jäger, he wears the Jäger oakleaves and not the edelweiss

The ribbon he wears along with the ostmedaille is for the KVKII with swords, thus taken prior to his EKII award.

[HouweTrouwe]

The helmeted soldier in the photo along with the EKII doc is not the same man. By the looks of it he could be a stabsfeldwebel rather than an oberfeldwebel. (a)

As he's a Jäger, he wears the Jäger oakleaves and not the edelweiss (b)

The ribbon he wears along with the ostmedaille is for the KVKII with swords, thus taken prior to his EKII award. (c)

(a) Really? I had this doubt also but some face features (as his nose) look almost identical to other photographs. Yet could you otherwise delete the attachment and replace Oberfeldwebel with Unteroffizier as delete the sentence please see attachment? I will then post a correct attachment.

(b) Thanks for the correction. Didn't know an Oakleave badge also existed for the Feldmütze. Learned something new.

(c) I will add it to the list of awards.

[HouweTrouwe]

Found a better photograph and indeed as Simon O. corrected me, he wears a Jäger badge on his Feldmütze and not an Edelweiß. Even didn't know this existed. Hereby a better close-up. Thanks Simon O.!

[HouweTrouwe]

To correct myself: here an unknown Feldgendarm.