German Death Card · primary-source record
Hans Westenkirchner
abt 1921 (computed from age at death) – 25 January 1942
Died 25 January 1942 · fell by Schtschign
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At-a-glance facts
Record type
German Death Card
Date of death
25 January 1942
Date of birth
abt 1921 (computed from age at death)
Age at death
21 years
Place of death
by Schtschign
Contributor's notes
Hans Westenkirchner, Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter in an infantry rgt. Awarded the WOUND BADGE, and the INFANTRY ASSAULT BADGE. Fell 25.Jan.1942 by Schtschign, aged 21.
No photograph of the card itself was published, 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/westenkirchner-hans-1942/
- Image vs transcription
- Neither — the archive preserves a narrative description of the card only; no photograph of the card was ever published.
Citation: "German death card (Sterbebild) of Hans Westenkirchner, Fahnenjunker-Gefreiter in an infantry regiment, fell 25 January 1942 at by Schtschign," described in the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/funeral-cards/westenkirchner-hans-1942/ : accessed [your access date]).
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