Some Chaplain Death Notices

[PaulR]

What would a Chaplain do to earn an EK while in the role of Chaplain duties? They do not bear arms.... Perhaps in rescueing wounded under fire?

V/r
Paul Reck

[Eppelebub]

According to the book, German Military Chaplains by Mark Hayden, the Kriegspfarrer DID bear arms, atleast in hostile areas outside the Reich, like Russia for example. The WWI Chaplains were awarded the EKI for bravery, but in WWII it was typical to see them with KVK variations, and MAYBE the EKII on occassion.

Eppelebub

What would a Chaplain do to earn an EK while in the role of Chaplain duties? They do not bear arms.... Perhaps in rescueing wounded under fire?

V/r
Paul Reck

[Eppelebub]

Kriegspfarrer

Has anyone seen this Cross on a Chaplains Schirmmütz?

[TWP]

Jacques, thank you for posting your 3 fotos. The second one and third one of the funeral scene were quite moving in an elegant yet tragic sort of way....

[Tim DC]

It's two years old, but time to bring this great thread back to life. I have recently developped an interest in priests in the Wehrmacht after studying the studio portrait below. It shows a Kriegsmarine priest with his family. In another photo, you can clearly see he is wearing some combat awards: the Flotten-Kriegsabzeichen, a wound badge and an EK2.

[Tim DC]

And here are two death cards I've picked up this week. Both show Fransiscan clergymen drafted in the Wehrmacht.

#1 - Josef Winkler was brother Isidor in the Fransiscan cloister of Munchen. He died at the Eastern Front in march 1942 as an ordinary infantryman.

[Tim DC]

And #2, Wilhelm Telser, a Fransiscan priest from Austria, since 1941 in the Luftwaffe, since 1943 he served as a Sanitäter in Russia. Died a year later while helping a wounded near Ostrow.

One interesting thing in these death cards is that they seem to have more information on it than other death cards.

If any of you has something similar in his collection, please share it here.

[W Petz]

Hey Tim,

All my Chaplain items went to a Chaplain....the only thing I have left is this postcard size photo of a chaplain conducting a service. Bill

[JUNGCO]

It didn't turn out well but it's a glass negative of a full length view of an Amry chaplain.

[JUNGCO]

Also a book given out by an Army Chaplain.

[JUNGCO]

And the inside cover.

[Eppelebub]

It's two years old, but time to bring this great thread back to life. I have recently developped an interest in priests in the Wehrmacht after studying the studio portrait below. It shows a Kriegsmarine priest with his family. In another photo, you can clearly see he is wearing some combat awards: the Flotten-Kriegsabzeichen, a wound badge and an EK2.

That is fabulous. I have seen other photo evidence of Kriegspfarrer with EKII's and Wound badges. I suppose if he was on the Float, he would get the award if the ship got decorated with it as wel.

[Ian Jewison]

Hehe.....not been here for a while so I thought I would create a negative of Jeff's negative then I found it was the wrong way round!

/Ian

[JUNGCO]

Well, I've been known to do things a..backwards.
Jeff

[StuGIII]

Father Alois

Here's my contribution. Rest in peace Father Alois.