WWII German Soldbuch – Gefreiter Ingenhaag – (Lived in Heerlen Holland!)Panzer Grenadier Regiment 128 – 23rd Panzer Division – Black Wounds Badge 26.05.1945!!!

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Description

Heinrich Ingenhaag 

Born 17.6.1912 in Gladbach, worked in Coal Mine worker. 

Married in Heerlen Holland in 1934, to Wilhelmena Books. 

It seems they lived for some time together in Heerlen Holland.

Mobilised in December of 1943, in Lingen (Ems) his Soldbuch was issued with: 

Stamm Kp Grenadier Ersatz Batl (Mot) 156 – 1943 

Sec Stamp: 1 Sept 1944 

Promotion: 13.10.1944 – Panzer Grenadier E u A Batl 215 – Windhund 

https://lexikon-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/InfErsBat/InfErsBat215-R.htm

Frontline Units 

He had an Einsatzurlaub – 8.9.1944 – 7.10.1944 

This was likely due to actions in France? Deserves further investigations.

Grenadier Ausbildungs Batl (mot) 156  

Grenadier Regiment (mot) 1021 

March 1944 – Arrived in Krakow, Poland at a hospital but was discharged in August of 1944 due to contacting Tuberculosis.

Although he had a full list of equipment, including a Pistol and holster, Lamp, binoculars.

Panzer Grenadier Regiment 128 – 23rd Panzer Division

The 23rd Panzer Division was part of the German defence and retreat in the southern Ukraine, frequently being moved between crisis points. Between April and July 1944 it was a part of the 8th Army within the Army Group South Ukraine defending the area to the north of Jassy.

After being sent to Poland in mid-1944, the division returned to the southern sector during the collapse of the German frontline in Romania. After the retreat into Hungary the division fought in defensive battles there. The majority of the division was trapped and destroyed in Székesfehérvár in March 1945.

The remainder of the division surrendered to British forces in May 1945.

Wounded 

3.4.1945 – Arrived in a Hospital in Lienz.

Awarded the Black Wounds Badge on the 26.5.1945

Could it have been he was awarded this for mine clearing?

“Starting on 21 May, the division sent clean-up details out along the
Mauterndorf- Tamsweg road to clean up the agricultural areas, roads and
trails of vehicular wrecks and rubble. Panzer-Regiment 23 assumed
responsibility for feeding and caring for a camp composed of civilians,
mostly those who had been bombed out of their homes in Germany. The
medical personnel set up a clearing station in Mauterndorf for the division.
The divisional engineers were employed in road work outside of the
internment area and went to the work places daily by vehicle.”
He was assigned to Marsch Regiment Radstadt 1 (POW Unit)

It seems he was then sent home in June 0f 1945. 

Nice Soldbuch with the matching Wounds Badge in Black (complete with pin and hook) that never left the back pouch of the Soldbuch!

 

 

 

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