Feldpost numbers

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AlexM2
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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by AlexM2 » 21 Nov 2012, 05:53

That's great, thank you. Where were you able to find the listing? Could there have been multiple groups/units at this single feldpost, besides Einsatzkommando 14, perhaps until the end of the war?
Thanks a bunch!
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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by history1 » 21 Nov 2012, 09:49

AlexM2 wrote:That's great, thank you. Where were you able to find the listing? [...]
Alex
Hi Alex,
here´s the source of the FPN - listing:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... hilit=mark

Regards,
history1


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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by BrianH » 14 Dec 2012, 16:53

Hi,

I recently obtained two interesting 1942 Feldpost letters. They both have the following unusual marking in blue and the feldpost cancel

Dienststelle Feldpost No 03715

They were both used in German occupied Ukraine from an officer (photos of him in his officers uniform were with one of the letters) to his daughter/wife? Elizabeth in Berlin. These went by airmail and were sent 1-2-42 and 21-6-42 from Alexanderstadt and from Luboml to the same address in Berlin. The officer was named Dietz (Just possibly Major General Dietz - Baron Von Thungen the close friend of Stauffenburg from Bamberg?? since he was in the Ukraine in 1942 and his Daughter was named Elizabeth and living in Berlin). I guess that the letters must have been from someone with important rank or they would not have been allowed as obviously personal mail to travel via airmail feldpost and with the offical markings!

Stangely both letters are stamped (not needed for official feldpost) and care was taken to cancel them tying them to the letters. No idea why he bothered to put the stamps on them perhaps since it represented a wrong use of the feldpost to send his personal mail (via airmail) to his family in Berlin he thought it only right to put the normal postal rate on them?

Both letters did get to Berlin via the feldpost so they do seem genuine postal items if perhaps philatellic inspired (hence the stamps) although it would be interesting to see if the unit went from the two Ukranian locations in 1942 and so could be him informing his daughter about his current location.

Does anyone know anything about this Feldpost Number 03715 (the first 0 looks like it has a diagonal line through it) or what the Dienststelle in the Ukraine was?

Brian

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by hucks216 » 14 Dec 2012, 17:17

Here is the entire listing for 03715...

(28.4.1940-14.9.1940) Transport-Kommandantur Rennes,
(1.2.1941-11.7.1941) Transport-Kommandantur West - Paris,
(15.7.1942-24.1.1943) gestrichen, wurde Fp.Nr. 03069 P,
(1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 12.10.1943 Stab Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 632,
(1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 19.1.1944 Stab u. 1.-3. u. 5.-8. Batterie Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 632,
(24.3.1944-6.11.1944) 15.4.1944 Stab u. Einheit Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 632,
(7.11.1944-Kriegsende) 17.1.1945 Einheit Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 632.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by BrianH » 14 Dec 2012, 17:36

I see nothing for the period concerned with the two letters (Jan-June 1942).

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by hucks216 » 14 Dec 2012, 17:45

BrianH wrote:I see nothing for the period concerned with the two letters (Jan-June 1942).
For that period the entry would be for Transport-Kommandantur West - Paris. The dates at the beginning of the entries are the approx start dates for when the FpNr was used by the relevant units, not the start and end dates.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by BrianH » 14 Dec 2012, 18:01

This is weird since I see no indication that these letters are fakes - they came with a set of ordinary mail and memrobillia from the same person going back to the first world war (some even have the same handwriting). So how could a transport unit from the West of Paris (1941) be in the Ukraine in 1942? Photos obtained with the letter do appear to be of soldiers and officers of a transport unit (alongside and driving trucks) but they are clearly in Russia not France (a cyrillic signpost).

Were transport units stationed in France sent in 1942 to the eastern front and if so would they take their fieldpost number with them? I have been told the Dienststelle in the Ukraine was involved with the transport of prisoners for slave labour so perhaps this was not a fighting unit but one transporting prisoners.

Any ideas?

Brian

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by lebedo » 30 Jan 2013, 00:20

Could someone help me with the following FP numbers for the month of July 1944 :
SS 22717
13876 B
03625
58907
05590

Thanks

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by hucks216 » 31 Jan 2013, 13:42

lebedo wrote:Could someone help me with the following FP numbers for the month of July 1944 :
SS 22717
13876 B
03625
58907
05590

Thanks
For that period:
22717 - (6.4.1944-9.11.1944) 30.6.1944 Stab u. 1.-6. Kompanie Feldersatz-Bataillon 236.
13876 - (1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 20.8.1943 Stab III u. 7.-9. Kompanie Sicherungs-Regiment 200 (B indicates 7 Kompanie).
03625 - (1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 14.3.1944 21. (Sf.) Batterie Werfer-Regiment 83.
58907 - (8.9.1943-22.4.1944) 2.3.1944 Stab u. Einheit Freiwilligen-Aufklärungs-AbtLi3 (13. SS-Division),
(23.4.1944-24.11.1944) 10.8.1944 Stab u. Einheit Aufklärungs-Abteilung 13 (13. SS-Division).
05590 - (1.8.1943-23.3.1944) 3.2.1944 Stab u. 1.-4. Kompanie Reserve-Grenadier-Bataillon 163.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by Hardigan » 26 Feb 2013, 15:38

Hello ,
Can somebody help with a Feldpost number 82364 which is stamped in a map case ? Thanks

Hardigan

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by hucks216 » 26 Feb 2013, 15:52

Hardigan wrote:Hello ,
Can somebody help with a Feldpost number 82364 which is stamped in a map case ? Thanks

Hardigan
That one isn't listed in the database.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by Hardigan » 26 Feb 2013, 17:25

Here it is
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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by hucks216 » 26 Feb 2013, 17:47

It's definitely not listed. The database, while extensive, still has loads of missing numbers that will probably never be found and identified and most of those gaps seem to be in the upper bracket of numbers.
In the '82XXX' range the numbers around yours run - 82325, 82354, 82363,82383, 82414 and so on.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by Larry D. » 27 Feb 2013, 02:23

Could it be:

32364
(2.1.1940-27.4.1940) Korps-Kommando XXXXIV.AK,
(1.3.1942-7.9.1942) Generalkommando XXXXIV.A,K.,
(23.4.1944-24.11.1944) 23.11.1944 gestrichen.

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Re: Feldpost numbers

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Post by Hardigan » 27 Feb 2013, 11:10

I also had doubts about the first cypher , I now see it's indeed a '3' although it has not the same shape as the other '3' , most interesting about the Kommando , thanks both

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