missing first names of Colonels with RDA-dates

[Heimatschuss]

Hello Rossano,

First name of Otl.(1.6.42) (from A.L. Lübeck) Kedor ?

http://www.volksbund.de/graebersuche.html has an

Oberstleutnant Julius Wilhelm Johannes Kedor
* 08.08.1891
+ 09.02.1946

He's buried in the war cemetery Hamburg-Neuengamme.

The Hamburg address book for 1938 lists one
Kedor, Johannes
Hauptmann i. R.
as living in Harburg.
http://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de/subhh-a ... 4261&p=469

That's probably the same chap. He must have been reactivated after that because in the address book for 1939 the 'i. R.' is gone. http://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de/subhh-a ... 8140&p=789

According to the 1940 address book he's already achieved the rank of Major. http://agora.sub.uni-hamburg.de/subhh-a ... 4910&p=817

Best regards
Torsten

[Rossano]

Bravo Torsten !
So, of all his first names the official one is/was Johannes.
Thanks, Rossano
P.S.: could You pls. reply to my last email too ?

[Rossano]

Genetlemen pls. push.........

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

Any assignements (2.42-2.44 only !) for Otl. 1.4.42 (from A.L. Neustettin) Kletschke Karl ?

there was an Oberstleutnant Karl Kletschke who was bestowed with the Order of the Crown of Romania in Jan. 1943 so he must have been somewhere where Romanian troops were involved. http://en.ww2awards.com/person/45283

Kardel (1953, p.34) mentions a Bataillon Kletschke from Infanterie-Regiment 399 that took the Voikov steelworks in Kertch on May 18, 1942. Since Kletschke is an uncommon family name (just 36 times in Germany's phone book) I'm confident this was Karl Kletschke. After the battle of Kertch Infanterie-Regiment 399 took part in the assault on Sevastopol. There a whole Romanian army corps also participated in the attack. Maybe this was the way Kletschke got on the award list of the Romanians.

References:

Kardel, Hennecke
Die Geschichte der 170. Infanterie-Division 1939-1945.
Podzun Verlag; Bad Nauheim; 1953

Best regards
Torsten

[Rossano]

Thanks Torsten, Rossano
P.S.: I wonder whether he later (1943) commanded a Regiment or what......

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

Thanks Torsten, Rossano
P.S.: I wonder whether he later (1943) commanded a Regiment or what......

Gorn (1946) mentions an Oberstleutnant Kletschke as Cdr. of Grenadier-Regiment 740 in April/May 1945 when he was cdr. of 710. Infanterie-Division. Kletschke could have held that command already before Gorn arrived of course.

References:

Gorn, Walter
710th Infantry Division (23 Apr. - 8 May 1945).
Guide to Foreign Military Studies, 1945-54; B-134
Historical Division, Headquarters United States Army, Europe, Foreign Military Studies Branch, [1946]

Best regards
Torsten

[Rossano]

Thanks Thorsten. I do have Kletschke in 1945....So now (after Your previous Info) I miss his assignements 2.43 to 2.44 only.
Friendly, Rossano
P.S.: 710.ID : are there any hints about who were the cdrs. of Pi.Btl., Nachr.Abt., Füs.Btl., and FEB. ?
In this Division I´ve 4.45 a Kpf.Gr. Klein and Rgts.Gr. Köhler, are there any hints about their ranks and assignements ?

[Heimatschuss]

Hello Rossano,

since Gorn led the division just for three weeks he couldn't recall most commanders. Gorn did remember:
Grenadier-Regiment 730: Oberstleutnant Koestermann
Grenadier-Regiment 740: Oberstleutnant Kletschke
[Grenadier?]-Regiment Baum: Major Baum
Artillerie-Regiment 650: Oberstleutnant Caminada
Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 710: Hauptmann Brückensicker [probably Brüggensieker]

Best regards
Torsten

[Rossano]

Thanks Torsten. Too bad, I only miss the above mentioned Btl.Kdre. (but I do appreciate Your effort....). Friendly, Rossano

[Rossano]

Hello (Dave, Hans, and others)
Pls. push my previous still open Colonels and Majors.
Below I´m adding a few more :
1) Any assignements (from end 43 on only !) for Otl. 1.2.42(276) (from Inf.Schule) Lenz Friedrich ?
2) Any assignements (from end 44 on only !) for Otl. 1.4.42(970 a) (from Rgt.118) Linden Willi ? His Karteikarte reads : "(from) 12.44 Kdr. Pz.Gr.EuA.Rgt.(under the Kdr. Pz.Truppen XII)". I thought that it was the Rgt.42, but Tessin reports this Rgt. 9.44 as disbanded , so what ?
3) Any assignements (end 43 to end 44 only !) for Otl. 1.6.43 (from WBK. Woldenberg) Lindenblatt, Herbert ? He commanded 10/11.44 a battle group, but was he by then also Kdr. Gren.Rgt.893 or what ?
4) Any assignements (from 1.43 on only !) for Otl. 1.1.43(165) (from Rgt.135) Lindow Hans-Gottfried ?
5) First name of Otl. 1.4.43(103) (from Rgt.31) Lipp ?
6) Any assignements (from mid 41 on only !) for Otl. 1.1.43(5) (from A.L. Wiesbaden) Lotz Hanns ?
7) Any assignements for Otl. 1.2.42(320) (from A.L. Landeck) Ludwig Karl ?
8) 1st name+assignements(until mid 44+from 2.45 only) for Otl. 1.8.42(73)(from WBK.Worms/WEI. Koblenz) Dr. Ludwig ?
9) First name + any assignements (from 2.44 on only !) for Otl. 1.4.43(118) (from Rgt.82) Lührs ?
10) First name + any assignements (1945 only !) for Otl. 1.6.41(29) (from Rgt.28) Machnig ?
Thanks to all. Rgds., Rossano

[123guderian]

5) First name of Otl. 1.4.43(103) (from Rgt.31) Lipp ?

LIPP Franz

[Rossano]

Hello
so disappointed, no more ? Pls. push
One question : until when was Ob.(1.4.39) Bech Alexander Kdt. of WBK.Bautzen ? Then no more assignments ? He is in DAL 40 only
Thanks, Rossano

[Dave Danner]

Thanks Thorsten. I do have Kletschke in 1945....So now (after Your previous Info) I miss his assignements 2.43 to 2.44 only.
Friendly, Rossano
P.S.: 710.ID : are there any hints about who were the cdrs. of Pi.Btl., Nachr.Abt., Füs.Btl., and FEB. ?
In this Division I´ve 4.45 a Kpf.Gr. Klein and Rgts.Gr. Köhler, are there any hints about their ranks and assignements ?

Kletschke, Karl Fritz Martin
Born 1. September 1893 in Neustrelitz

25.11.41-13.8.42 Kdr. I./IR 399 (22.5.-25.6.42 Fhr. IR 399)
14.8.42-15.11.42 Inf.Ers.Btl. 16
16.11.42-9.11.43 Stoinf b. Fest.Pi.St. 32
10.11.43-11.3.44 Stoinf b. Fest.Pi.Kdr. XVII
12.3.44- Kdr. GR 740

[Rossano]

Welcome back Dave and many thanks !
I´ve been missing Your so precious informations.......(in the last days/weeks/months I posted so many topics about single officers, as well as groups of officers, which in the majority can be positively replied by someone like You possessing their personal files). So, although I realize that I´m very "annoying",but(if You can) pls. kindly try to check my questions and wherever possible give me some more data like before).
I´d be very grateful to You for that....Friendly, Rossano

[Dave Danner]

1) Any assignements (from end 43 on only !) for Otl. 1.2.42(276) (from Inf.Schule) Lenz Friedrich ?

24.11.43 kdrt. z. Bfh. d. dtsch.Tr. in Transnistrien als Ia
21.2.44 zum Kdt. d. Pl.Kdtr. I d. Feldkdtr. 599 ernannt
28.7.44 durch Gericht d. Div. 471 z. 7 Monaten Stubearrest verurteilt
12.10.44 Urteil durch d. Reichsführer-SS bestätigt *
12.44 vermißt

* Himmler confirmed the sentence, but changed it to 6 weeks Stubenarrest at the time, with the rest of the sentence delayed until after the war, with Lenz given the opportunity to prove himself before the enemy. Lenz does not appear in the Volksbund database, so he may have been taken prisoner.

Lenz was rated only an average officer in World War II, but as an NCO in World War I he had received Prussia's Militärverdienstkreuz, the so-called "Pour le Mérite for NCOs and men".