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Familien und Kriesgtagebuch – Family and war diary
All books are DINA5 size, with hard leather or wood cover
Book 1: until April 1937
Content:
Origin of the Wetzel name, family history, Family tree, History of the Wetzel&Co wool company
Pictures: family pictures, pictures of the wool factory, birth and other certificates.
Leather cover
Typewritten
Book 2: April 1937 until 11.10.1939
Content:
Index of places: Ingolstadt, Kempten, Austria, Trip to Italy, Schanzen, Poland campaign
Unit and rank: Oberletunant, 14 Infantry Regiment Konstanz, 13 Company of light artillery 91th Infantry Division
Handwritten
Newspaper report about his unit, 13 Company of light artillery 91th Infantry Division
Picture of the old comrades (Hitler, Hess, etc.) in the Bürgerbräukeller, Hitler speaking, Major Wetzel sitting in the 4th row
Map of the battle at Osiek (Poland) hold 11.09.1939
Pictures: Family pictures, 4 pictures of the attack on Osiek
Book 3: October 1939 until 5.1.1941
Content:
Index: Ostpreussen, Berlín, France, Steiermark, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Norway, Finland, Arctic Sea Front
Pages: 76
Handwritten
Unit: Gebirgsjägerregiment 143
Newspaper: second Ritterkreuz given in history to a prívate of my grandfather’s unit (handwritten: proud of our soldier!)
Rank: Major
Magazine: A Mountain Division in the Balkan Campaign (Eine Gebirgsdivision im Balkanfeldzug). 5 pages with map
Brochure: Balkan campaign of the 12th Army, 2 pages with map
Pictures of his staying in Athens
Book 4: November 6th to July 1943
Content; No index
Pages: 187
Handwritten
Pictures: around 50
Dedicated / signed picture from Dietl to all regiment commanders
Pictures of the opening of the “Tiroler hut” (Tiroler Hütte) (Command post in Lapland) with Mountain General Schörner
Book 5: from 1.8.1943
Content: No index
Pages: 206
Handwritten
Pictures: around 60
Pictures of the opening of the “Tiroler hut” (Tiroler Hütte) (Command post in Lapland) with Mountain General Georg Ritter von Hengl (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ritter_von_Hengl) , General Schörner and Oberst Wetzel
Rank: Oberst
Book 6: no date son title
Content: no index
Pages: 50
Handwritten
Pictures: around200
No text, only description beneath the pictures
Combat pictures in Finland, Lapland and arctic sea front
Additional books
Official pre-war books with 50 pictures each of the following units:
Minenwerferkompanie I.R. 63 Ingolstadt
Infanteriegeschützkompanie I.R. 91 Kempten
Pre-war Book with initial picture of Göring with 50 maneuvers pictures
Guestbook of the Gebirgsjägerregiment 136
One of the soldiers was tough drawing, and made drawings on special occasions, like births, visits, battles, etc.
All pages signed with all the Officers of the Regiment, all color paintings,
Picture album titled “Dedicated to the warmonger”
Content: 16 landscape nature pictures, 15 party pictures of the soldiers
Medals Concessions
Bulgarian courage medal, Iron Cross 2nd Class,
Wounded in combat 2nd Class,
Medals
Finnish Cross of Liberty Second Class with swords
Wounde in Combat 2nd class
Iron Cross ribbon (only ribbon)
Brustspange (ver fotos)
2 Australian and newsealand uniform buttons
Arian certificates of my grandfather and grandmother
Web references:
Here my grandfather appears still as Hauptmann Wetzel: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...r/GJR143-R.htm
Other urls with mentions about him:
http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~holz/dac...r2_440926.html
http://gliederungundstellenbesetzung...91-ir91-d.html
Mention of Hauptmann Wolferseder: (his brother in law, husband of my great aunt)
http://www.ww2awards.com/person/21075
Oberst Wetzel in the Unit “91 Grenadier regiment” at the end of war in Croatia / Bosnia
Book where the author talks about the suicide of my grandfather, Regiment Commander, just before being captured by the Partisans, 16th February 1945, without knowing that he had been appointed General
http://es.scribd.com/doc/82023356/Fr...platz-Kroatien
Familien und Kriesgtagebuch – Family and war diary
All books are DINA5 size, with hard leather or wood cover
Book 1: until April 1937
Content:
Origin of the Wetzel name, family history, Family tree, History of the Wetzel&Co wool company
Pictures: family pictures, pictures of the wool factory, birth and other certificates.
Leather cover
Typewritten
Book 2: April 1937 until 11.10.1939
Content:
Index of places: Ingolstadt, Kempten, Austria, Trip to Italy, Schanzen, Poland campaign
Unit and rank: Oberletunant, 14 Infantry Regiment Konstanz, 13 Company of light artillery 91th Infantry Division
Handwritten
Newspaper report about his unit, 13 Company of light artillery 91th Infantry Division
Picture of the old comrades (Hitler, Hess, etc.) in the Bürgerbräukeller, Hitler speaking, Major Wetzel sitting in the 4th row
Map of the battle at Osiek (Poland) hold 11.09.1939
Pictures: Family pictures, 4 pictures of the attack on Osiek
Book 3: October 1939 until 5.1.1941
Content:
Index: Ostpreussen, Berlín, France, Steiermark, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Norway, Finland, Arctic Sea Front
Pages: 76
Handwritten
Unit: Gebirgsjägerregiment 143
Newspaper: second Ritterkreuz given in history to a prívate of my grandfather’s unit (handwritten: proud of our soldier!)
Rank: Major
Magazine: A Mountain Division in the Balkan Campaign (Eine Gebirgsdivision im Balkanfeldzug). 5 pages with map
Brochure: Balkan campaign of the 12th Army, 2 pages with map
Pictures of his staying in Athens
Book 4: November 6th to July 1943
Content; No index
Pages: 187
Handwritten
Pictures: around 50
Dedicated / signed picture from Dietl to all regiment commanders
Pictures of the opening of the “Tiroler hut” (Tiroler Hütte) (Command post in Lapland) with Mountain General Schörner
Book 5: from 1.8.1943
Content: No index
Pages: 206
Handwritten
Pictures: around 60
Pictures of the opening of the “Tiroler hut” (Tiroler Hütte) (Command post in Lapland) with Mountain General Georg Ritter von Hengl (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ritter_von_Hengl) , General Schörner and Oberst Wetzel
Rank: Oberst
Book 6: no date son title
Content: no index
Pages: 50
Handwritten
Pictures: around200
No text, only description beneath the pictures
Combat pictures in Finland, Lapland and arctic sea front
Additional books
Official pre-war books with 50 pictures each of the following units:
Minenwerferkompanie I.R. 63 Ingolstadt
Infanteriegeschützkompanie I.R. 91 Kempten
Pre-war Book with initial picture of Göring with 50 maneuvers pictures
Guestbook of the Gebirgsjägerregiment 136
One of the soldiers was tough drawing, and made drawings on special occasions, like births, visits, battles, etc.
All pages signed with all the Officers of the Regiment, all color paintings,
Picture album titled “Dedicated to the warmonger”
Content: 16 landscape nature pictures, 15 party pictures of the soldiers
Medals Concessions
Bulgarian courage medal, Iron Cross 2nd Class,
Wounded in combat 2nd Class,
Medals
Finnish Cross of Liberty Second Class with swords
Wounde in Combat 2nd class
Iron Cross ribbon (only ribbon)
Brustspange (ver fotos)
2 Australian and newsealand uniform buttons
Arian certificates of my grandfather and grandmother
Web references:
Here my grandfather appears still as Hauptmann Wetzel: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/...r/GJR143-R.htm
Other urls with mentions about him:
http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~holz/dac...r2_440926.html
http://gliederungundstellenbesetzung...91-ir91-d.html
Mention of Hauptmann Wolferseder: (his brother in law, husband of my great aunt)
http://www.ww2awards.com/person/21075
Oberst Wetzel in the Unit “91 Grenadier regiment” at the end of war in Croatia / Bosnia
Book where the author talks about the suicide of my grandfather, Regiment Commander, just before being captured by the Partisans, 16th February 1945, without knowing that he had been appointed General
http://es.scribd.com/doc/82023356/Fr...platz-Kroatien
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