Article about: That depends really Dagon, i can read the printed words on the death cards but actual handwritting can be a totally different matter, it can be quite difficult sometimes but i could try
At first I wasn’t sure about posting this sterbebild because of the nature of his death. But after deliberation I decided that although it is a very sad one, it is a subject that needs to be acknowledged.
Josef Waldmannstetter - Stabs-kompanie Festungs Regiment 965
Surname:
Waldmannstetter
Forename:
Josef
Rank:
Unterfeldwebel
Date of birth:
28.01.1913
Place of birth:
Rohr/Nb.
Date of death/becoming missing:
13.08.1943
Place of death/becoming missing:
Amalias
Josef Waldmannstetter is buried in the military cemetery in Dionyssos-Rapendoza (GR).
Grave site: Endgrablage: Gruft 2 Platte 15 - Unter den Unbekannten
During the re-interment activities in his original burial location, it was not possible to identify him without any trace of doubt, so he has been buried as an ''unknown soldier'' in the cemetery Dionyssos-Rapendoza.
His cause of death is recorded as Selbstmord : Suicide
He started his service with Musikkorps Aufklärungs regiment 8, which was the regimental band. He was then transferred to Ersatz und Ausbildungs Bataillon 999, which appears to be a punishment or probation unit. Whether he was sent there for a ‘crime’, or assigned there because of his NCO rank, I’m not sure. Finally he was assigned to Stabs Kompanie Festungs Regiment 965 which was based in the Peloponnese.
It is BlackCat and I agree with what you say about the field hospital. I guess it would be the equivalent of the ‘instant death’ that we see so often in documents and letters that were sent to families.
He was originally a member of Sanitäts Ersatz Abteilung 7, a unit I collect.
Surname:
Mühlthaler
Forename:
Josef
Rank:
Jäger
Date of birth:
01.08.1902
Place of birth:
Simbach
Date of death/becoming missing:
02.12.1942
Place of death/becoming missing:
Storchlandeplatz i.Gunaikatal
Maikop
Josef Mühlthaler is recorded by name on a natural stone stele in the military cemetery in Krasnodar-Apscheronsk set up by the Volksbund.
He died at the main first aid station (hauptverbandplatz) Stork landing site (Storchlandeplatz) in the Gunaika Valley, near Maikop, Russia.
Unfall : Brustschuß durch Pistolen Schuß vestorben (Accident : Died due to a pistol shot in the chest).
He was originally a member of Sanitäts Ersatz Abteilung 7, a unit I collect.
Surname:
Mühlthaler
Forename:
Josef
Rank:
Jäger
Date of birth:
01.08.1902
Place of birth:
Simbach
Date of death/becoming missing:
02.12.1942
Place of death/becoming missing:
Storchlandeplatz i.Gunaikatal
Maikop
Josef Mühlthaler is recorded by name on a natural stone stele in the military cemetery in Krasnodar-Apscheronsk set up by the Volksbund.
He died at the main first aid station (hauptverbandsplatz) Stork landing site (Storchlandeplatz) in the Gunaika Valley, near Maikop, Russia.
Unfall : Brustschuß durch Pistolen Schuß vestorben (Accident : Died due to a pistol shot in the chest).
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
Josef Fischer - 1./Batterie Gebirgs Artillerie Regiment 94
Surname:
Fischer
Forename:
Josef
Rank:
Obersoldat
Date of birth:
08.02.1922
Place of birth:
Egglham
Date of death/becoming missing:
29.12.1942
Place of death/becoming missing:
Feldlaz.101 Apscherowskaja
Josef Fischer was not recovered during our re-interment activities. The planned transfer to the collective cemetery in Krasnodar-Apscheronsk was, therefore, unfortunately not possible. His name will be recorded in the cemetery's memorial book.
Verstorben: infektiöser Darmkatarrh mit Erschöpfung, schwerster Magen-Darmkatarrh, Bronchitis, Marasmus, Dekubitus.
Deceased: infectious intestinal catarrh with exhaustion, extremely severe gastroenteritis, bronchitis, marasmus (severe malnutrition), decubitus (pressure ulcers).
Surname:
Schweiger
Forename:
Nikolaus
Rank:
Gefreiter
Date of birth:
18.02.1919
Place of birth:
Jachenau
Date of death/becoming missing:
25.09.1941
Place of death/becoming missing:
6 km südl. Waseljewka, nördl. Krim
Nikolaus Schweiger is buried in the military cemetery in Kirowograd - Sammelfriedhof.
Endgrablage: Block 15 Reihe 18 Grab 2899
Martin Götz (Priest) - 13./Kompanie Gebirgsjäger Regiment 98
He was originally a member of Sanitäts Ersatz Abteilung 7, a unit I collect.
Surname:
Götz
Forename:
Martin
Rank:
Gefreiter
Date of birth:
19.09.1911
Place of birth:
Pforzheim
Date of death/becoming missing:
25.08.1942
Place of death/becoming missing:
Klitsch-Tal,ca.2 km nordostw.Klitsch,sd.
-ostw.Kluchowpaß/Kaukasus
Martin Götz has not yet been transferred to a military cemetery set up by the Volksbund.
According to the information available to us, his grave is currently in the following place: Klytschtal - Russland
Gefallen : A.G.K - Artillerie Geschoß Kopf
Killed in action : Artillery projectile head
Martin Götz (1911 in Neuötting - 1942 in the Caucasus) was a priest from Töging am Inn.
Martin Götz was born in Neuötting in 1911. His parents moved temporarily to Pforzheim and soon after the First World War back to Töging am Inn, where his father found a job as a medic at the Innwerk.
After completing his studies in Passau, Martin Götz celebrated his first class in Töging in 1936. In several cooperator positions in the Bavarian Forest he developed into an open-minded and modern-minded young priest, who soon came into conflict with the ruling Nazis. He lost his license to teach and was later arrested. Even after he took up his position as a cooperator from 1934 in the parish of Burgkirchen am Wald, where he was met with great sympathy, the Nazis continued to monitor him, arrested him again and imprisoned him in the Stadelheim prison.
Mrs. Maria Götz's half-brother was Matthias Zierhut, local group leader and, shortly before the end of the war, mayor of Töging. Here he led a strict regiment. His sister asked him to do something for Martin, his nephew. That was probably in connection with Stadelheim or the subsequent draft.
In the spring of 1941 Götz was drafted into the military. He was killed in heavy fighting in the Caucasus early 1942. Martin Gotz – RegioWiki Niederbayern
At the Dreikönigssingen in 1932, three archangels preceded the procession of the kings (from left): theology students Michael Westenthanner from Neuötting, Willi Noppenberger, farmer's son of the Reindl farmer in Höchfelden near Töging, and Martin Götz. All three died in the war.
Franz Zierler - Feldstrafgefangenen Abteilung 6 (Field Penal Unit)
Surname:
Zierler
Forename:
Franz
Rank:
Jäger
Date of birth:
30.01.1923
Place of birth:
Frankenburg
Date of death/becoming missing:
04.04.1943
Place of death/becoming missing:
Kirischi
Franz Zierler has probably been transferred to the military cemetery Sologubowka.
Grave site: wahrscheinlich unter den Unbekannten
Feldstrafgefangenen Abteilungen consisted of soldiers which were condemned to prison for longer than 3 months (for a list of reasons). These Abteilungen were used for hard, dangerous labour, for example in partisan endangered areas.
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