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Wehrmacht Soldbuch – Uffz Böge – Landesschützen Batl 345 – Battle of Berlin 1945 (Hold)
Soldbuch to Unterfeldwebel Hermann Böge. This World War I veteran, 157 cm short and already 55 years old, was called up for the Endkampf in March 1945, retaining his WWI rank. He was a Berlin resident and remained in his city to serve with Landesschützen-Bataillon 345, at that time located in Berlin-Lichterfelde. Though originally not intended for front line fighting, this Landesschützen unit was trapped in the city and did see fierce action during the last weeks of the war, fighting off the 1st Ukrainian Front. As he is not listed on the Volksbund database, we can assume Böge survived the Battle of Berlin and entered Russian captivity – or perhaps he was able to avoid POW time by throwing off his uniform and returning to his wife in the Stettiner Strasse. Before the battle began he was issued a K98 rifle and 100 rounds of ammo The Soldbuch has a fantastic photo showing the veteran wearing a greatcoat Fought against the 1st UkFr, 7 Panzer G Korps in Berlin 1945 Also featured in the Berlin 1945 book in progress.
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Luftwaffe Soldbuch – Oberleutnant Schulz – Kampfgruppe Schulz – Wounded at Schönefeld Airport Berlin 1945 – Super Rare (On Hold)
Soldbuch Issued to Willy Schulz in September 1939. This is an exceptional Soldbuch, simply because he served in all the famous airports in Berlin as Flugleiter, meaning he was in some sort of Air Traffic control role. A list of the airports/Berlin locations he worked in: Fürstenwalde, Rangsdorf, Döberitz, Schönefeld, Johanisthal, Tempelhof By 1945, according to the entries in the Soldbuch, he was leading his own battle group (Kampfgruppe) “22.4.1945 – Kampfgruppe Schulz – Combat in defence of Berlin” Then, “Wounded and taken Prisoner and send to hospital” It would seem he was according to his Soldbuch delivered to the War Hospital in Potsdam, where he was treated till August of 1945, finally staying in Berlin Kreuzberg St Josef Hospital. This is an exceptionally rare Soldbuch, and is also being published alongside many others for the Battle of Berlin in an upcoming book on artefacts of the battle.
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Deathcard – Staudinger – Killed in action in Berlin Spandau 1945 – Battle of Berlin (on Hold)
Killed in action in Berlin Spandau in the final days of the battle of Berlin 1945.
Comes with the German Graves registry printout.
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Volkssturm/Heimat Flak – Flakwehrmann Fahrentholz – Wounded in Battle of Berlin Tempelhof Airport 1945 – Super Rare (On Hold)
Franz Fahrentholz was born in 1900 in the small town of Altrüdnitz (Today: Stara Rudnica) on the banks of the Oder River. He served in the First World War during the end phases of 1918 and was lucky to have missed the horrible bloodshed seen by the men only a few years older than him. From early 1932 Franz was an employee at the AEG Cable Works in Berlin Schöneweide. Franz continued to work there throughout the war, leading teams that produced items directly linked to the war industry and used slave labour. Franz was not immune to the war effort in another form, defence. These large structures of the AEG were prime targets for Allied bombing raids. The large buildings on the banks of the river Spree would have been an easy target from above. By July 1941, Franz was sent an order to report to a large gym hall in Berlin-Neukölln to be considered for military duty, he was found fit for duty in the Landwehr, also known as a home army. Although he was not sent to a home army unit he could have been called up anytime. By early 1943, Franz was ordered to take his Wehrpass and report for a further inspection, by June he was enlisted into a home guard Anti-Aircraft unit known, Heimatflakbatterie 28/III. Franz was trained on a captured French light machine gun, the FM 24/29 and received instruction on an anti-aircraft searchlight (Flak-Sw 36 – 60cm). The 60cm searchlight was operated by one person and was built on a small turntable equipped with a seat and trailer, it allowed for a 360-degree reach and was deployed very fast. If an allied aircraft was spotted and followed with such a search light it would mean the spotters firing had a clear target to aim at. Franz was given the rank of Flakwehrmann, which was a civilian rank given to those that completed a standard course designed in 1943. The objective of which was to train civilians on anti-aircraft related equipment for the purpose of defending the home front. On successful completion of the course the rank of Flakwehrmann was reached and the soldier was awarded a civilian badge. The badge was worn on the left side of the lapel, the eagle of the Luftwaffe holding the swastika inside the cog symbol the symbol for German workers. He fought with: 1st Flak Division, Leichte Flak Abteilung 979 (o) Stationed at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport. By April 1945 during the advance of the Soviet army, Franz was found on the banks of the Landwehr Canal on the Maybachufer in Berlin Neukölln. The Maybachufer a 1.47 kilometre long street with one side running parallel to Canal. Comments: an extremely rare set for central Berlin, the wounding tag completing the picture on what happened to him.
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Luftwaffe Soldbuch – Flieger-Hauptingenieur Breitkopf – RLM Berlin – Rare (On Hold)
98Very rare Berlin Soldbuch, for the infamous RLM Building which still stands in Berlin. Flieger-Hauptingenieur Walter Breitkopf was born in 1908 in Breslau (Today: Wroclaw in Poland). Breitkopf, an engineer that joined the Luftwaffe in 1938 worked in the RLM from the early days till the end of the war. Breitkopf was a member of the Fliegeringenieur-Korps (Flight Engineer Corps) admission to the Corps meant having had done a prior two year military service, be commissioned as an officer whilst holding a degree in engineering and whilst having the state exam for aircraft design. Breitkopf was assigned to the department GL4 (later TLR/B) responsible for testing new aircraft. Work was done inside the RLM building and in 1942 Breitkopf was moving back and forth from an airbase in near Paris. When on duty for the RLM in Paris in late 1943 he was sent home to Berlin due to his apartment being damaged due to an allied bombing raid. On the first of March, Breitkopf was promoted to Flieger-Hauptingenieur, a head engineer with the rank equivalent of a Capitan. In the final days of the war he was captured in Rostock, (2nd Belo Fr) likely at the Heinkel aircraft plant. The first page of his Soldbuch is stamped by the Soviet Command in Rostock. His prewar Dienstausweis (entry pass) into the RLM made of waterproof paper displays usage right the way till February 1945. His matching Erkennungsmarke (Dog Tag) and Luftwaffe issue Soldbuch. Interestingly, Breitkopf lived with his wife next to Germany’s oldest airport in Berlin-Johannisthal the many streets around there were home to all the top names in the German aircraft industry. It was from there that the first planes and Zeppelins took to the sky over Germany. The scene of one of the world’s first air disasters. A test flight of a Zeppelin exploded and crashed killing all 28 crew members. Today the former Johannisthal airport is an abandoned place slowly falling apart, the runways are now a nature park, the paths around it a popular spot for runners. Please note: This Soldbuch will feature alongside many other Berlin Soldbücher in a Book currently in he end phases.
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Wehrmacht Soldbuch – Grenadier Schneider – 36 Volksgrenadier Division – Operation Nordwind – Wounded fighting the US Army (sold)
Soldbuch issued in March 1943, to Grenadier Kurt Schneider from Siegland, Germany. He was born in November of 1912. He was not married and had a civilian job before he was called up. After a period training he was deployed into: Arriving in Russia in late 1943, with Ausbildungs Batl 453. He was wounded with them in March of 1944, after that he was sent in June to a replacement unit and made his way back to the front sometime in later 1944 with: Grenadier Regiment 894 ( 265 Infanterie Division) & Grenadier Regiment 165 (36th Volks Grenadier Division) – This time Schneider would fight in the Westfront exclusively. Wounded again in January of 1945 with a bullet wound, 31a in the Soldbuch. He was moved to another hospital in April of 1945 as the front drew closer and likely made it through the war. By the end of November the division had lost 50% of its personnel in the fighting in Lorraine. On December 5, the so-called “Forbach position” was occupied. Although completely exhausted, the division received the order on December 25, 1944 to move from the Saarbrücken area to positions in the St. Ingbert – Blieskastel area east of the Saar in order to break through the Maginot Line from there in a southerly direction. It was thus part of an attack in the lower Vosges to relieve the deadlocked Ardennes offensive in the north. The attack began on December 31, 1944 at 11 p.m. The division was unable to reach its attack objectives in the following days. As early as January 3, 1945, the attack was ordered to cease and the division went over to defense in the old main. In the weeks that followed, things remained relatively quiet at the main front line. The division was replaced, so that on February 3, 1945 it had a fighting strength of 3,165 men again. Interestingly the battles of Grenadier Regiment 165 are documented in the book: In Pursuit of Hitler Battles Through the Nazi Heartland March to May 1945 By Andrew Rawson · 2008 Comments: Interestingly, the NCO of the same Regiment and the first batl is for sale online, – Unteroffizier Hans Greiter (26.08.1920 † 01.10.2002) earned the Ritterkreuz on January 13, 1945 as Unteroffizier und Meldestaffelführer of the I. Bataillon/ Grenadier-Regiment 165 of the 36. Volksgrenadier-Division- Operation Nordwind
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Reichskulturkammer – Choir Singer Darmünzel
$65.00Interesting Civilian ID for a professional choir singer for work on stage. Interestingly, he worked in Berlin and in the Deutsche Nationaltheater Weimar in 1943 and 1944. With the support of the conservative state government, the National Socialists had been holding regular party meetings in Weimar since 1924. In 1926, the first Reich Party Congress of the NSDAP was held in the theater after the ban was lifted. The General Manager Ernst Hardt left the theater in 1924 after there had been violent and defamatory protests against his performances from ethnic-nationalists. His successor Franz Ulbrich initially tried to continue playing contemporary authors such as Ernst Toller, Carl Sternheim and others, despite threats of censorship and calls for »cleansing« of the Weimar theater schedule. However, he increasingly made compromises with the National Socialists, who were involved in the state government from 1930 and demanded a “Jew-free theatre”. From 1933, Ernst Nobbe, a member of the NSDAP, took over the directorship, followed in 1936 by Hans Severus Ziegler, who, among other things, had co-initiated the decree »Against Negro culture for German nationality«. During the Nazi regime, a classical repertoire was mainly played, with Schiller’s drama in particular being placed in a National Socialist perspective. Hitler wanted to develop the Weimar Theater into one of the leading theaters in the German Reich and supported the DNT annually with private funds. History – National Theater Weimar The conversion of the auditorium and the renovation of the stage technology in 1939/40 devoured a sum of over 800,000 Reichsmarks, which Hitler personally campaigned for. The fact that such a sum came together during the war years illustrates the special importance of the DNT at that time. The theater also played for the entertainment of the SS members in the casino of the Buchenwald concentration camp. While Franz Lehár’s “The Land of Smiles” was being performed at the DNT, Fritz Löhner-Beda, the Jewish librettist of this operetta, was imprisoned just a few kilometers away in Buchenwald. His name was concealed in the program booklet. In autumn 1944 all theaters in Germany were closed. The DNT was leased to Siemens & Halske as a production facility. An American bombing raid on February 9, 1945 reduced the theater to rubble and ash except for the façade and the foyer.
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Truppenausweis – Oberst Max Röhrs – Judge in Berlin Reichskriegsgericht – Sent “WinzenGruppe German Resistance -” leader to death
Truppenausweiss for Oberst Max Röhrs, born on the 26.01.1893 in Brake, Germany. Röhrs served as a Judge in the Reichskriegsgericht (German War Court). Super rare to find anything for the Reichskriegsgericht in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Röhrs was a Judge that sent Paul Winzer to death, the leader of the Winzengruppe. As well as that, Röhrs was a judge in other high profile cases such as the case against Werner Engel another German Resistance member. This Identification paper was used right up to 1944. He is wearing the WW1 Marine Wounds Badge as well as the Iron Cross First Class with WW2 Clasp. Paul Winzen * November 24, 1911 in Dortmund Paul was born as the youngest child of the Winzen family. It is no longer possible to determine when he left his parents’ house. In the Dortmund address book from 1941 he is still listed under this address, his profession is given as a stationer. Paul Winzen was a member and leading figure of a resistance group that had emerged from free-thinking/free-religious organizations. People met to go to the theater, visited exhibitions and discussed a wide variety of topics. Politically, they rejected both Soviet communism and social democracy. They advocated a humanistic social order. After 1933, the Dortmund group, which was also called the Winzen Group after its founder Paul Winzen, met in various places and organized the resistance: leaflets against the Nazi regime were printed and foreign radio stations were listened to. When an informer finally crept into the group in 1940 and betrayed the members, they were arrested as members of the Winzen group. The trial of Paul Winzen took place in February 1942 in Berlin before the People’s Court. He and another head of the group, Josef Kasel (see Stolperstein Gneisenaustr. 89) were sentenced to death for “undermining the military force” and “preparing for high treason”. Winzen was also convicted of “broadcasting crimes”. The judgment was carried out on June 12, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee.
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Luftwaffe Soldbuch – Obergefreiter GOLDMANN – 17. Luftwaffen-Feld-Division – 167 Volksgrenadier Division – France 1944 / Ardennes 1944/45 – Bastogne (SOLD)
Luftwaffe Soldbuch for Obergefrieter Goldmann, born in Ampen (Soest) Germany in 1908. Worked as a builder before the war and was a protestant. Married to Martha Goldmann, address in Warne an der Lippe, Germany. Soldbuch issued on the 13.January 1942 with: 13.1.1942 – 14.4.1942 Leicht Flak Ersatz Abteilung 94 15.4.9142 – 17.7.1942 – Reserve Flak Abteilung 921 14.7.1942 – 30.9.1942 – Reserve Flak Abteilung 251 – In Dresden 1.10.1942 – 29.1.1943 – Leichte Flak Abteilung 728 – In Dresden 20.1.1943 -1.2.1944 – Nachschub Kompanie 17 (L) – France 1944, Le Harve (17. Luftwaffen-Feld-Division) November 1, 1943 in the Le Havre area in northern France. The unit was created by taking over the Luftwaffe Field Division 17 from the Luftwaffe to the Army. With the formation, the unit was placed under the 17th Field Division (L). In northern France, the unit was destroyed in September 1944. On September 28, 1944, the unit was officially disbanded. Just a few weeks after it was formed, the division was assigned to Army Group D in January 1943 and moved to northern France. After the arrival of the last formations of the division in February 1943, it was used for coastal security in the area between Dieppe and Le Havre. On November 1, 1943, the division was taken over by the army (for the renaming of the division as Feld-Division 17 (L) see here). At the beginning of 1944, the division was converted into a native infantry division under the formation of the Jäger-Regiment 47 (L). The division remained in place after the Allied invasion began in June 1944. After the Allied formations broke out of the Caen bridgehead, the division was drawn into the general German retreat and in early September 1944 found itself in heavy defensive fighting against strong British and Canadian formations. Eventually the division between Ghent and St. Nicolas was broken up and officially dissolved on September 28, 1944. 12.10.1944 – POW – Versorgungs Regiment 167 The re-created division, now designated 167. Volksgrenadierdivision, took part in the Ardennes Offensive. On New Years Day, it, along with the 5th Parachute Division, aided the panzers in defending the area around the Belgian town of Lutrebois in Luxembourg. Alongside the 5th Fallschirm-Division, the 167.VGD advanced towards Bastogne and was then committed in fighting the Americans just east and south of the city once the encirclement broke in the last week of December 1944. While the three were able to hold off the approaching Americans and dealt heavy casualties to their enemies, the situation elsewhere in the Ardennes was different and the 167th was ordered to fall back. Soldbuch details: Found unfit for tropical service Security Stamp – Page 11 – Divisions Versorgungs Regiment 167 (167. Volksgrenadier-Division) Issued in 11.1944 a Red Cross Waterproof ID Equipment: Helmet with Camo Net Camo Jacket K98k with Bayonet – Interestingly he was issued twice a rifle in December 1944 and April 1945. He was issued also ammunition a few times. Medals: War Merit Cross with Swords – 17th LW Feld Division (1.4.1944) Comments: An interesting Luftwaffe Soldbuch career, taking part in defending Normandy, Goldmann survived his unit being wiped out, and was set up in a new division, which would go on to fight in the Ardennes Offensive. In a very sought after battle, the battle for Bastogne. He seems to have
