Feldpost M 50527

[ryan]

Hi All:

Can anyone help me with the following feldpost for Werner Stulz Feldpost 50527...I believe he was a kreigsmarine U-Boat signaler.

I have found a person that has a number of WW2 artifacts from this soldier and his family during the war, including a sandstone memorial stone. This stone was given to the family when lease ran out on the plot...the last remaining family member passed away and now the items will be for sale.

Thanks

ryan

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Ryan, the feldpost number is U Boat related and is for:

50527

(2.1.1940-11.3.1943) U-Boot 738,

(8.9.1943-22.4.1944) April 1944 gestrichen, dann U-Boot 2360.

Cheers, Ade.

[John Brandon]

Hi Ryan, a bit more information for you
U-738 Type VIIC
Feldpost Number M 50 527
Construction Yard F.Schichau GmbH, Danzig
Yard Number 1535
Ordered 10th Apr 1941
Keel laid 25th Feb 1942
Launched 12th Dec 1942
Commissioned 20th Feb 1943
Baubelehrung 7.KLA, Danzig
Training, Flotillas and Duties
02.43 - 03.44 8.U-Flottille, Danzig
Ausbildungsboot (under training)
Commanders
02.43 - 02.44 LT ~ OL Erich-Michael Hoffmann

Stulz Werner FkOGfr 18.11.1923 14.02.1944 U-738+ lost off Gdynia, Baltic

U-2360 Type XXIII
Feldpost Number M 50 527
Construction Yard Deutsche Werft AG, Hamburg-Finkenwärder
Yard Number 514
Ordered 20th Sep 1944
Keel laid 7th Nov 1944
Launched 29th Dec 1944
Commissioned 23rd Jan 1945
Baubelehrung 8.KLA, Hamburg
Training, Flotillas and Duties 01.45 - 02.45 32.U-Flottille, Hamburg
Ausbildungsboot (under training) 02.45 - 05.45 4.U-Flottille, stettin
Ausbildungsboot (under training)
Commanders
01.45 - 05.45 OL Kurt Schrobach

[ryan]

Thanks Adrian and John, amazing you have this information, is it on a website?

ryan

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Ryan, no the Feldpost info is not available on a website. I have a database of this on CD ROM.

Cheers, Ade.

[ryan]

Well, I appreciate you sharing your information from the CDROM

ryan

[John Brandon]

Hi Ryan, no the Feldpost info is not available on a website. I have a database of this on CD ROM.

Cheers, Ade.

we could make a fortune Ade

[Hallibag]

Sorry to resurrect an old post, but I think this must be the memorial stone mentioned in the OP?

[Willmore]

Hi there.

I love to see old threads resurrected.

I found a Werner Stulz with the same date of birth, but a different date of death. I would say this is the same man because he was on U-738.

Seaman Werner Stulz (1923-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

He is also mentioned on the Volksbund.

Name: Werner Stulz
Date of birth: 1923
Place of birth -
Death/missing date: 14.02.1944
Death/missing place -
Service rank: Obergefreiter

Werner Stulz is, as a fallen member of the German Navy, recorded by name either on one of the plates at the U-Boat Memorial at Möltenort near Kiel or in a memorial book on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial.

It is interesting that the date of death on the memorial stone seems to be a year out.


U-738 -
Built at Schichau in Danzig, launched on Dec. 12, 1942 and commissioned on Feb. 20, 1943 the type VIIc U-boat, U-738 would never see war service. On February 14, 1944, a few days short of a year after she was commissioned, the boat was in the Baltic on a training exercise when she was rammed by SS Erna off off Gotenhafen (Gdynia), Poland. Twenty-two men, including her commanding officer were lost. Twenty-four men survived. The boat was raised on Mar. 3, 1944 and scrapped.
MaritimeQuest - Daily Event for February 14, 2012 U-738

U 738 -
U 738 – U-Boot-Archiv Wiki

Kind regards,

Will