Casualty card to Luftwaffe/SS Pioneer

[russg]

Hi All,

Once again I am hoping that someone may be able to help me with locating (that’s if it exists) a casualty card to Obergefreiter Jacob Esser. For the most part of his career Esser served with various flak units within the Luftwaffe before being transferred to an SS Pioneer unit in August 1944.

I assume he would then have been issued with an SS soldbuch which quite possibly could still be with him since his body was never recovered??

From the ‘Volksbund’ website…..

‘Jakob Esser

According to the information available to us, Jakob Esser has been missing since 01.02.1945.

We have recorded the name and the personal details of the person named above in the memorial book of the cemetery Poznan-Milostowo. You are welcome to order an extract from us. Please note that the version on display in some cemeteries is not the current version; therefore, the name of your relative may not be recorded in it.

Details zur Person:

Surname: Esser
Forename: Jakob
Date of birth: 18.12.1906
Date of death/becoming missing: 01.02.1945
Place of death/becoming missing: Gruenberg N.S./Beuthen b. Glogau/Boyadel /Dtsch. Wartenberg/Driesen/Freystadt b.’

I will be grateful for any help.

Thank you in advance,

Russ

[Willmore]

Hi Russ.

I had a look for a casualty card but found nothing. They seem to become patchy in 1944 and I haven’t found one yet for anyone who died in 1945.

[russg]

Hi Willmore,

I thought as much but thanks for looking!!

Russ

[Willmore]

No problem bud, anytime.

[BlackCat1982]

Shame we drew a blank this time Russg. There are some for February 1945, but not for Jakob.