SS Officers - ID Help

[chris235]

Hello,

I am looking for the names of both these Officers.

I know one is named Urbanitz - but I dont know which one.


Any info on these guys would be nice!

Thanks

[Tim W]

The second one looks like Richard Pauly?
Tim

[chris235]

Thanks for your reply,

Could be the cuftitle states - SS Heimwehr Danzig, also in the photo is a corner of someone elses armband that is SS Schule Braunschweig.

This is the info I have found on Pauly, but I dont have a picture to confirm this, surely there is one floating around?


Born: 21/12/13 (Kriensen)
SS NO: 128,581
NSDAP NO: 3,037,646
Ustuf: 10/4/37
Stubaf: 9/11/43
1936-37: Cadet, SS-JS "Braunschweig"
1937: Oranienburg ("Camp Men"), or SS-TS 2 "Brandenburg"
1938: Ostuf, SS-TS 3 "Thüringen" (DAL)
Oct 1939 - May 25, 1940: 00 (Ordonnanzoffizier), III. /SS-Totenkopf-Inf. Regt.3
May 25 - Aug 1940, & 1941 to 1942: Adjt. (IIa), SS-Totenkopf-Inf. Regt.3 (wounded Feb/April 1942)
1943: "Hohenstaufen" Div ("Camp Men")
1944: General Staff Training ("Camp Men")
July 1944: SS-FHA (gestr.), 4th SS-Pz. Korps (gestr.), 5th SS-Pz. Div "Wiking" (1944 W-SS DAL)
August 1944: Ia "Wiking" (succeeded Schönfelder), according to internet resources

[chris235]

It is him, wrote on the back beside Urbanitz, is a barely readable Rich Pauly.

Thanks for this!

Any more information on him?

[MarcRikmenspoel]

I agree, it is Erich Urbanitz (top photo) and Richard Pauly. Urbanitz served as an artillery officer in numerous Waffen-SS units through the war. Pauly isn't listed in the veterans' history of Wiking. I suspect he was a staff officer with IV. SS-PK headquarters, and may have briefly held the position of Wiking Ia before being KIA in August 1944. But the long-term (well, several months) successor to Schoenfelder was Heer Major i.G. Otto Kleine.

[chris235]

Hi,

Thanks for the info - do you have any information on his death?

[MarcRikmenspoel]

John Moore's Fuehrerliste has Pauly being KIA at an unspecified date during August 1944.

However, a little digging brought up this detail posted two months ago to the AHF: Richard Pauly, 21/12/1913 born, 25/02/1947 extradited from US zone to Poland, 27/08/1947 sentenced to 8 years in Warsaw,
06/12/1951 died in prison.

[chris235]

Interesting - two conflicting reports on one man?

I wonder what one is correct?