Original WWII Soldbuch – TSD Offizier Weber – Berlin 1945 – Döberitz / Wundsorf
Description
Interesting Soldbuch, (although sadly missing pages) issued at Döberitz Training base to Kurt Weber, from Berlin Karlshorst. He was awarded the War Merit Cross with the HVA in Wunsdorf.
(Units and Personal Information are still inside along with a photo of Weber in Uniform!)
He served with:
Heeresverflegungsamt Döberitz
Interesting Barracks, today in ruins outside Berlin and can be visited on tours.
Döberitz military training area, a major military installation near Berlin used by the Prussian Army, the Wehrmacht, and later Soviet forces until 1992. It served as a large-scale training ground for troops, a site for officer and pilot training, and a testing area for new aircraft and motor vehicles. During World War II, it was also a site for training various German units, including foreign volunteers, and housed a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Heeresverflegungsamt Wunsdorf
Wünsdorf–Zossen military complex, south of Berlin was one of the most important German command centers during both world wars. By WWII it served primarily as:
Headquarters of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) – the German Army High Command. Part of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) – the High Command of the Armed Forces also operated from the complex.
A huge underground bunker system including the famous Maybach I, Maybach II, and the Zeppelin bunker, all designed to withstand bombing.
A major communications hub using the Amt 500 complex with advanced telephone, teleprinter, and cipher services. Because of its role, Wünsdorf-Zossen was sometimes referred to as “the brain of the Wehrmacht.”
What happened there in April 1945
During the Soviet offensive on Berlin, the Wünsdorf–Zossen area became a major target.
Key events (April 20–24, 1945):
20–21 April: Soviet forces of the 3rd Guards Tank Army and 28th Army reached the area during their rapid advance toward Berlin.
Fighting around the base occurred as German rear units and training formations attempted to defend the complex.
The Luftwaffe bombed nearby areas trying unsuccessfully to halt the Soviet breakthrough.
22–23 April: The Soviets overran the positions around Zossen. The Maybach bunkers and the OKH/OKW command complex were captured almost intact because German forces had evacuated most leadership personnel shortly beforehand.
24 April: The entire Wünsdorf military complex fell under Soviet control. Large stores of documents, communications equipment, and intact bunkers were seized.
Weber was in March of 1945 in Wunsdorf, and seems he was captured by the Red Army shortly after during the Battle of Berlin and for some reason was pressed into some sort of service given there is entries of payments by the Red Army in Russian language.
