WWII Kriegsmarine Soldbuch – Marine Feldwebel Langner – Battle of Berlin Wounded 30.04.1945 Wilmersdorferstr 96! – Died 1945 – RARE

Description

Artur Langner was born in Prausnitz 1888.

Langner worked as a customs chief secretary in his civilian life.

Langner was issued a Kriegsmarine Soldbuch by the 17th Marine Ersatz Abt in December of 1944.

Langner was given the rank of Marine Art Feldwebel (NCO). 

It seems during the year of 1944 he worked on bringing Secret Items under strict orders, on page 21 of the Soldbuch a unique entry is applied to the Soldbuch. That he must not be pulled out into any ad hoc unit and that the rules stipulated from OKH stated, he is working with the Sonderdienst Transportwesen.

He is not to be halted, put into any alarm units and if he is forced to seek shelter during an air raid he is to be the carer of the secret items at all costs. 

What is clear is that by March of 1945 he was mobilised again, although he was on the 20th of April admitted to Hospital – the Reserve Lazarett 122 – which was located on the Motkestraße 23 in Berlin-Tempelhof.

He must have been mobilsed three days later when he was found fit for service, the same day Berlin was encircled! 

Its worth nothing that he lived with his wife in Biebricher Strasse 51, Berlin Neukölln so he was not too far from his home!

The next clue in his story is the wound tag, Langner was found by LG-Rettungstelle 157 (Unit from Berlin Halensee) on Wilmersdorfer Straße 96 (See Image from GMaps) on the 30th of April 1945. With Grenade Splinter wounds on his left side of his body.

 

Langner was admitted to hospital in Berlin – Martin Luther Krankenhaus on the 12.5.1945 and died of his wounds at 3.30 on the 4th of June 1945.

Interestingly, the Allied Authorities in Berlin issued his Wife Wally, on the 6.6.1945 a permit in both English and Russian languages as a permit to visit her husband by foot in the Martin Luther Hospital.

According to research, I was able to find out that Langner was buried in Berlin-Neukölln, St.-Thomas-Friedhof in his own grave, Block 9 – Row 6 – Grave 7.

Attached are research, Death Certificate and Graves Information. 

This is on of the last Soldbuchs to be entered into a long project, on the Battle of Berlin 1945.