Show your stalingrad related urkunde's

[skvorin]

Here is a new Urkunde I managed to get for a great price and thought I would show it to you all.

Darren

[Brian R]

Another battle dated group I thought I would share.

A group of Urkunde to Obergefreiten Herbert Wiessner of Infantry Regiment 267. The unit was part of the 94th Infantry Division that was destroyed at Stalingrad. Included is his EK2 Urkunde which is hand signed by Knights Cross and DKIG winner General der Artillerie Georg Pfeiffer.

General Pfeiffer was very lucky to be flown out of the Stalingrad pocket on 11th December 1942 to start the refit of the new 94th Infantry Division in January 1943.

On the date the EK2 was signed the 44th Infantry Division had established security positions on the Don River 50 miles northwest of Stalingrad by a town called Sirotinskaya where the Russians were able to maintain a bridgehead on the southern side of the Don River.

When the 6th Army was surrounded in November 1942 the Division headed towards the city and their eventual doom.

Herbert Wiessner's fate is unknown although there is a person of his name listed on the Volksbund with a KIA date of January 1st 1943 and buried at Stalingrad.

There is also Herbert's IAB Urkunde which is hand signed by DKIG winner Colonel Erich Reimann . Any more information on Colonel Reimann would be welcome.

Darren

Darren - This document is not related to 44. ID but only 94. ID. On the 21st of September, IR. 267 was fighting against Red Army resistance in and around the Grain Elevator. The division ultimately eliminated all resistance in the area and established control over all Tsaritsa River crossing sites.

[Brian R]

Here is an interesting Black Wound Badge citation to an Eduard Schawata with Jäger-Regiment 54, 100. Jäger-Division. The unit was pushing into the Barrikady Gun Factory area at the time alongside, or in support of, Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 108 of 14. Panzer-Division. By the day of his wound, October 17th, the push into the factory was facing increasing resistance and the attacking divisions were seeing a rise in casualties. Schawata's award was processed roughly two weeks after his wound and he was ultimately saved from the Stalingrad pocket. He went on to serve with the division as it was reformed in 1943. He won the Iron Cross Second Class in August 1944 while fighting in the Carpathians.

The FP number on the document reads 42748 which, at some point, belonged to Kriegs Lazarett 926. Does anyone know if these numbers matched at the time and where the unit was located?

[Akira Takiguchi]

I have had this for quite a while...

Kleffner, Josef final rank Feldwebel
born on Feb 20, 1915 in Westfalen,
died on Jan 11th, 1943 in Stalingrad

5.Pz.Brig. - 1./Pz.Rgt.36 - 1./Pz.Abt.60 - 4./Pz.Rgt.36

His early EK2

[Akira Takiguchi]

for his wound on the 3rd day of the "Barbarossa".

[Akira Takiguchi]

awarded Panzerkampfabzeichen in Silber during his Pz.Abt.60 days.

[Akira Takiguchi]

A small photo of him (I believe).

[Akira Takiguchi]

Photos from his 1./36 days.

[jmark]

A small photo of him (I believe).

Indeed it is, the very same photo used in the DRK Vermißtenbildliste.

Jason

[Akira Takiguchi]

Great, thanks Jason!

[Simon O.]

Obergefreiter Wilhelm Hannover a driver with the divisionsstab of the 295 Inf.Div.

Interesting that his EKII was awarded by OKH.

[Simon O.]

Somehow he got out of Stalingrad and he ends up in Norway in the new 295 Inf.Div.

Drivers badge in gold signed by Rudolf Dinter and the ostmedaille issued during the second half of 1944 and signed by Karl-Ludwig Rhein

At the end of the war, the 295 Div. had about 7300 men and i believe there were a significant number who had been in the original division

[jmark]

Nice set Simon. I really like the Ehren-Urkunde, never seen one before.

I've got quite a few documents groups to 295.Inf.Div. soldiers, as well as a couple of albums. If a 295.Inf.Div. soldier survived Stalingrad, he generally rode out the rest of the war in Norway. The division was definitely the luckiest reformed Stalingrad division: about half of the others fought in Italy, and almost all of them went back to Russia again in 1943-1944.

[brooksbz]

Hi. This is my contribution to this thread. Feldwebel Augustin was assigned to the 64 PGR and wounded in Stalingrad in October 1942. I was lucky to get his IDs, paperwork and medals. Here is his wound badge, EK1 and EK2. The EK2 was signed by Hube.

[brooksbz]

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