Wehrpass Soldbuch Sonderführer train driver Balkan Greece

(D22117)
Alois Martz, Train driver specialist „Sonderführer (G)“ NCO (Unteroffizier) Army Pioneers and field railway unit.

1) Wehrpass, 14.9.36. Cover loose.
2) Soldbuch, 2.6.42. With uniform pass photo.
3) German Railways „Reichsbahn“ insurance pass, 1938-1939.
4) Third Reich labor pass, 12.10.36.

Entitled to: Wound Badge in Black (11.4.45).

Mechanic born 1913 in Insheim Pfalz. He volunteered the army pioneers in 1935 and served Oct.35-Sep.36 with Pionier-Bataillon 17 in Ingolstadt. Discharged 1936 buit till Aug.38 working as a civil mechanic with Pionier-Bataillon 35 in Germersheim. 1938-1942 as mechanic at the German Railways workshop in Landau Pfalz. Called-up again 1942 and served May 42 till the end of the war as train driver „Sonderführer“ with field railway unit Feld-Eisenbahn-Maschinen-Abteilung 13 active under Feldeisenbahn-Kommando 3 and later Feldeisenbahn-Kommando 6 in Southern Russia (Millerowo, Alexejewska, Charkow, Balkan), Greece (Saloniki), Yugoslavia and Croatia. Wounded Apr.45 but was not hospitalized. He was Aug.45-Jul.46 in POW camp in Feldkirchen Austria working for the railway labour unit. Rifle and a belgian pistol issued to him 1942.