Information Request

[Brendan Hunt]

Gents,

I'm researching this one soldier off of some info from the Volksbund:

Nachname: Schmehl
Vorname: Hermann
Dienstgrad: Gefreiter
Geburtsdatum: 04.10.1920
Geburtsort: Weinsberg
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 01.09.1941
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Dnjepropetrowsk

Does anyone know what infantry units were stationed around Dnjepropetrowsk at that time? Maybe any other information on him?


And...some photos of him!




I don't know much about him, but his brother-in-law was a super-vet! Poland, France, Romania, Ukraine, Crimea, Kuban, Stalingrad, and later unfortunately dying in a Gulag...

Thanks,
-B

[Doktor Krollspell]

Hello Brendan!

Here goes nothing... As Dnjepropetrowsk lies in southeast Ukraine it's definitely Heeresgruppe Süd and when I quickly looked through an old "Maps of WWII" kind of book I found that, in September 1941, just north of Dnjepropetrowsk was the 17. Armee and just south was the Panzer-Gruppe 1 (Later 1. Panzer-Armee). See links for information on which Divisions that made up these two armies. See if any of those was in/near Dnjepropetrowsk in August/September 1941 and so on...

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... 7Armee.htm

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... armee1.htm


Good luck with your research,

Krollspell

[Brendan Hunt]

Thanks for the links! I'll see what I can find. A possible unit w/o any research is IR.72/ID.46. I'll see what else I can find...

Thanks again!
-B

[Brendan Hunt]

Just found this: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... /198ID.htm

Do you think thats the one, or do you think it could be another?

Its strange, because my best guess was from two postcards of a parade out of Karlsbad. From the date on the back of one of the two, I was able to determine it was elements of the 46ID. That was my best guess, and the 46ID was at Dnjepropetrowsk, but in 1943 instead of 1941...

Ugggh...more research...

-B