The weather isn't great today, so a perfect day to write another Soldbuch thread.
Hans Mauckner (°1926) a bricklayer from Uffenheim was drafted in to the army in July 1944, he was assigned to the Kriegsmarine and joined the 1/21 Schiffstammabteilung which was based in Leba in Pomerania, it was unit that gave basic training to sailors.
At the end of September 1944 the Wehrmacht is desperately searching for new soldiers to replace those lost in the debacles of the summer of 1944; Hans Mauckner is one of the many KM sailors that is transferred to the WH in this period.
On September 25 1944 he returns his blue and field grey KM uniforms and then joins the staff company of Grenadier Regiment 423 in Schieradz, in this Polish town the 212 Volksgrenadier Division is being build from the remainders of the 212ID and new recruits, many of them former KM sailors.
In early November they depart for the western front, towards the Westwall across Echternach in Luxemburg; it is in this period that he is issued a MP44, entered in his Soldbuch with the odd abbreviation M.K.P.44.
As part of the 7th Army they have to secure the southern flank in the Ardennes offensive, but their advance is almost immediately halted by US Army units (9 Armoured - & 4 Infantry Division).
Echternach is a hikers paradise and nicknamed "little Switzerland" this says a lot about the terrain in which they tried to advance in bad winter conditions.
After Christmas the US Army takes back the terrain it lost in this sector of the Ardennes and pushes back the 212VGD units to their starting positions.
It is in this period that Hans Mauckner is taken POW, you can see his POW serial number on the bottom of page 2 of the Soldbuch; his company commander writes a letter to his father on February 12 1945 to inform that his son is MIA since they were pushed out of Berdorf a small village just west of Echternach.
Hans Mauckner (°1926) a bricklayer from Uffenheim was drafted in to the army in July 1944, he was assigned to the Kriegsmarine and joined the 1/21 Schiffstammabteilung which was based in Leba in Pomerania, it was unit that gave basic training to sailors.
At the end of September 1944 the Wehrmacht is desperately searching for new soldiers to replace those lost in the debacles of the summer of 1944; Hans Mauckner is one of the many KM sailors that is transferred to the WH in this period.
On September 25 1944 he returns his blue and field grey KM uniforms and then joins the staff company of Grenadier Regiment 423 in Schieradz, in this Polish town the 212 Volksgrenadier Division is being build from the remainders of the 212ID and new recruits, many of them former KM sailors.
In early November they depart for the western front, towards the Westwall across Echternach in Luxemburg; it is in this period that he is issued a MP44, entered in his Soldbuch with the odd abbreviation M.K.P.44.
As part of the 7th Army they have to secure the southern flank in the Ardennes offensive, but their advance is almost immediately halted by US Army units (9 Armoured - & 4 Infantry Division).
Echternach is a hikers paradise and nicknamed "little Switzerland" this says a lot about the terrain in which they tried to advance in bad winter conditions.
After Christmas the US Army takes back the terrain it lost in this sector of the Ardennes and pushes back the 212VGD units to their starting positions.
It is in this period that Hans Mauckner is taken POW, you can see his POW serial number on the bottom of page 2 of the Soldbuch; his company commander writes a letter to his father on February 12 1945 to inform that his son is MIA since they were pushed out of Berdorf a small village just west of Echternach.
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