Please translate death record Karl Kunkel 3 Sep 1845
Also help me understand was records would be in this collection Magdeburg, Death Records, because Karl Kunkel lived in Ingelfingen, Poland near Konin.
Thank you
Laura
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No. O. 387
East Magdeburg, the 3rd of September 1945.
The lead machinist Karl Kunkel, lutheran, resident at 4 Coswiger street, Magdeburg, died on 19 April 1945, at 9:35 at the Margaretenhof Hospital in Magdeburg.
The deceased was born on 23 September, 1873 in Ingelfingen by Kalisch.
Father: Ferdinand Kunkel
Mother: Wilhelmine Kunkel, nee Berndt, both deceased in Ingelfingen.
The deceased was married to Lina Martha Louise Kunkel, nee Straßer, resident of Magdeburg.
Registered on written notification of reserve hospital I, Magdeburg, Am Anger.
The deceased is buried in the honorary cemetery of reserve hospital I in Magdeburg, at Anger-Grab 28 - on April 20, 1945.
Read aloud, approved and signed, the registrar in representation: Bemann
Cause of death: serious injury, cardiac and circulatory weakness
Marriage of the deceased was on 11, February 1899 in Roßlau (Roßlau Registry office Nr. 12/99)
So Karl was born in Ingelfingen (Kalisch) and his parents died there. He was married in Roßlau and his marriage record No 12/99 can be found in the Roßlau Registry Office.
Karl and his wife ended up living in Magdeburg so you might also find his wife's death record there if she stayed in Magdeburg and possibly their children might have records there if they also moved there.
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I tried to find out a little more about the above mentioned hospital as this death occurred at the end of the war and it was not clear to me if Karl died as a result of a war injury. I found this discussion online.
https://www.hadis-soldatenforum.de/t268f124-Mai-Es-geschah-im-Standortlazarett-Magdeburg.html
I've translated part of the second post with google translate:
The devastating Second World War was also drawing to a close for Magdeburg. The city on the Elbe, which was declared a fortress at the last minute, was stormed on April 17, 1945 by American units of the 2nd Armored Division and the 30th Infantry Division after stubborn fighting in the outskirts. Between April 15 and 17, numerous Wehrmacht groups and SS squads that were still capable of fighting had set off across the only intact Elbe bridge to the east bank, where the combat group Adolf Raegener (combat commander of Magdeburg) tried to hold the Elbe line with infantry and the few remaining artillery weapons. At that point, no one could have guessed that the Americans would stop at the Elbe and not march any further to Berlin.
The Soviet Berlin offensive on the Oder-Neisse front began on April 16, 1945. On April 1, the Soviet troops of the 1st Byelorussian Front were still far from Berlin and the Elbe.
A few days later, the German resistance fell dramatically against a massive superiority of Soviet armies with the highest losses. In Magdeburg-Ost, transports of wounded people from the east arrived at the hospitals every day, which had already been filled with wounded people from the retreat areas in the west in the weeks before. Medical care for the seriously wounded could hardly be guaranteed.
The dramatic conditions that prevailed in the on-site hospital at Margarethenhof am Herrenkrug can only be guessed at from the few reports that have been preserved.
Only rarely is it possible to find new documents that provide information about the personal attitudes and actions of American soldiers during the occupation period. Such documents could be found for Magdeburg, copies of which have now been handed over to the Museum of Cultural History. These include the report of Joseph Puma, of D Company, 82nd Reconnaissance, 2nd Armored Division, and the particularly graphic report of Sergeant Melcom A. Moore, K Company, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, which by the end of May 1945 was the occupying power on the Elbe. The author also had the After Action Reports of the US units and the Unit Journal 117th Infantry, 13 Apr – 29 Apr 1945 at his disposal for evaluation.
Sergeant Melcom A. Moore describes, among many other episodes and descriptions of the situation, how the German Lieutenant General Kurt Dittmar attempted to rescue severely wounded Wehrmacht soldiers from the base hospital to the Americans, failed and then went into American captivity.
From the Unit Journal 117th Infantry, 13 Apr – 29 Apr 1945 we first learn about the drama of a rescue attempt for around 300 seriously wounded by a hospital doctor to the Americans, but this also failed.
Two key witness reports from Gerhard Erwin Besler-Grabowski, who was severely wounded at the time, and the wounded lieutenant Lenz, described the conditions in the on-site hospital at Margarethenhof when, on May 5, 1945, troops from the 370th Rifle Division of the 69th Russian Army reached East Magdeburg and took over the hospital. Nursing staff, medics and the wounded were at the mercy of Soviet soldiers and GPU commissars.
Two large mass graves on the grounds of the base hospital bear witness to the terrible events and the helplessness of the seriously wounded, around 300 of whom were doomed to die.
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Thank you for the information about the fighting in Magdeburg at the time of his death. It adds so much when you can learn about the period of time you are researching. Question about his marriage record. I do not know how to research for the Roßlau Registry office? Can you explain how I can search for this?
Laura
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I am assuming it is the Roßlau on the Elbe river south east of Magdeburg. It doesn't look like Familysearch, Ancestry or Archion have any of those records available online. Roßlau (now called Dessau-Roßlau) is in Saxony-Anhalt. It may be that records for this area might be available somewhere online but I'm not aware of it.
Familysearch has a nice description of how to find Anhalt records here:
You may have to follow the procedure described in the article to obtain the record from the current Standesamt (Registry Office). The address for the Dessau-Roßlau Standesamt:
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