German Death Card · primary-source record
Georg Lottenschmid
abt 1911 (computed from age at death) – 12 October 1942
Died 12 October 1942 · fell in Russia
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At-a-glance facts
Record type
German Death Card
Date of death
12 October 1942
Date of birth
abt 1911 (computed from age at death)
Age at death
31 years
Place of death
Russia
Contributor's notes
Georg Lottenschmid, gefreiter in an infantry rgt. Awarded "various badges". Fell 12.oct.1942 in russia, after being shot in the heart. Aged 31. Double pages, 4 sided card.
No photograph of the card itself is held in the archive, so no verbatim German text can be transcribed for this record.
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Source & citation
- Source type
- Transcription only
- Provenance
- From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
- Transcribed by
- Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
- Last verified
- 2026-07-02
- Permalink
- /records/funeral-cards/lottenschmid-georg-1942/
- Image vs transcription
- Neither — this archive preserves a narrative description of the card only; no photograph of the card was ever published.
Citation: "German death card (Sterbebild) of Georg Lottenschmid, Infantry regiment (Gefreiter), fell 12 October 1942 at Russia," described in the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/funeral-cards/lottenschmid-georg-1942/ : accessed [your access date]).
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