Beiträge von Arne_S

    Vielen Dank für die Begrüßung und die Übersetzung meiner ursprünglichen Nachricht. Ich werde die Website des DRK konsultieren. Was die Bewerbung angeht, habe ich nach 1976 keine konkreten Anfragen mehr gestellt. Ich werde mir das ansehen. Von seiner Gefangenschaft ist mir bekannt, dass er ca. 4 Monate in der Kieler Region blieb und dann nach Hause ging. Ich werde auch die Website des DRK konsultieren.


    Viele Grüße,


    Arne


    Zunächst einmal vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe und die Erläuterung seiner Position. Ich werde versuchen, Kontakt zum Bundesarchiv in Freiburg aufzunehmen. Außerdem würde ich mich freuen, wenn jemand das Einheitszeichen Vielleicht erkennt.


    Viele Grüße,


    Arne

    Hi everyone,


    My apologies for using the English language. As a Belgian I understand German, but sadly enough i'm not able to write it properly. The reason I'm using this forum is because the grandfather of my mother was a German soldier of the Luftwaffe in the second word war. As a lot of soldiers who had the fortune to get out of the war alive he was traumatized and didn't talk a lot about it. From the little he shared we know he served in Poland and Russia (Smolensk was mentioned in conversations). Furthermore at the end of the war he fled from the east and was taken into British captivity after which he came home (Bavaria, Obernzenn). We did a request at the bundesarchiv and received the documents which I uploaded as attachments:


    Information about my great- grandfather:


    Name: Eberlein Michael

    Birth: 16/04/1908

    Death: 20/11/1975

    Place of birth: Obernzenn (Landkreis Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Bayern)


    We found in our family belongings a "feldpostnummer" which was related to the luftwaffe: L24369

    Based on this, the bundesarchiv sended us the following information (see file: Units 1939-1940 & Bundesarchiv kartei)


    I already knew he was in the "Schwere Flak-Transport-Batterie 2/131" from 1939-1940 by entering the feldpostnummer on google. Does anyone have information about this specific unit? (locations, placements, commanders, ...). I can only find its existence but not more specific information.


    Furthermore, you can see that information from 1941-1945 is lacking (the bundesarchiv didn't metioned anything about this period to our request). Is there any possibility to recover information about this period? Do people on this forum have sources to clear up this gap?


    Secondary information: he was a skilled musician and had to play many times in the officers mess. He also took pictures (see attachments) on a regular base, I included some. Thus, you can clearly see he was part of a transport unit, probably a obergefreiter (even the number plate is visible on foto5). A lot of pictures show an Eastern European architecture. Thus, assumably conforming the Polish or Russian campaign.


    We waited one year to receive news from the bundesarchive. Which was very disappointing and not more than we already knew through our own research.


    I thank everyone in advance who can answer my questions or give me any kind of advise to clear up the history of my great-grandfather (i highlighted my questions in blue). Feel free to react in the beautiful German language which I understand.


    It should be a shame if we do not make the effort to find out of our relatives their past, certainly in a world who tries to forget them....


    Kind regards,


    Arne


    Great-grandchild of Michael Eberlein