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His Wehrpass was recently up for auction.

The part that relates to how he died is at the bottom of the casualty card - IG K (Infanterie Geschoss - Kopf).

According to Lexikon, there are two books about this division:

Fritz Kammerer: Pilzdivision im Einsatz/205. Infanterie-Division Oberrhein-Frankreich-Rußland, Selbstverlag, Müllheim 1969

Walter Gruber/Emil Geier/Otto Wößner: Die 205. Infanterie-Division. Bildbericht vom Schicksal einer deutschen Infanterie-Division 1936 - 1945, Hrsg. vom Kameradenhilfswerk d. ehem. 205. Inf.Div. e.V., Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg 1981

His body won't have been shipped back to Germany. Volksbund states that it hasn't been transferred to a war cemetery so it's most probably still in a long lost field grave.

Here's the Volksbund link for the modern war cemetery where the other soldier is thought to be buried.

https://kriegsgraeberstaetten.volksbund.de/friedhof/duchowschtschina

That's a good book but considering how long the Rzhev campaign went on for and the size of the area it covered, it doesn't cover every unit. There is a new book about the campaign out later this year:

Meat Grinder: The Battles For The Rzhev Salient 1942-43 by Prit Buttar.

Beljajewo would have been his unit cemetery so won't exist now. Duchowschtschina is the modern war cemetery and is listed on his Volksbund entry.

These are the basic details of what the NARA rolls cover for 205.ID for this period:

On the same day that Riepertinger was killed, 5.Kompanie in Inf.Rgt 335 lost a man at Nowo-Niwy and was buried in the unit cemetery at Beljajewo. He is now thought to be buried at the war cemetery at Duchowschtschina (which is to the east of Welish/Velizh) as an unknown soldier.

Riepertinger's body is probably in the same field grave that he was placed in and lost to time.

NARA has a copy of the division's war diary for that period. They are cataloged under T-315 Rolls 1588, 1589 & 1590.

And this is the area as it looks today with Welish (Velizh) to the top right (Ssurash (now Suraz) is just off the map in a SW direction.

The first image is the 02-June-1942 Lage Ost map showing 205.ID's location. The second image is a 1943 dated Russian map of the area that 205.ID was situated in with Surash in the bottom left and Welish in the top right (the main hub for the various roadways) and the river Dwina following the main transport road/track between the two main locations and which bisected 205.ID's positions.

And just down from Welish is a place called Niwy although whether this is the place he was killed is far from certain as a few places have the word 'Niwy' in their name. You will need to find the location of the regiment itself to see where they were.

Very interesting and well produced. I take it you have been able to get a digitised copy of the original Dachau document?

I'm sure you have seen these but for anyone else, here are some WW-1 roster lists for Georg Wagner.

Korvettenkapitän der Reserve Heinrich Engel
Born: 22 Aug 1898

F.d.S Ost, 2.Admiralstabsoffizier und Adjutant
Führer.d.Minschiffgruppe West, 2.Admiralstabsoffizier
Stab Führer.d.Minenschiffgruppe West, 1.Admiralstabsoffizier
Kdr Maasflotille
Führer d. Motorbootsverbände
MVO zu Heereseinheiten

DKiG: 02 Oct 1944

Korvettenkapitän z.V. Kurt Franz Josef Adolf August Eduard Opolski (sometimes listed as Curt)
Born: 05 Jan 1887

Kommandiert nach Ostende, Paris, Den Haag, Hoek van Holland und Rotterdam
Kdr Maasflottille
Kommandiert zur 1.Sperrbrecherflottille, 11. Landungsflottille bzw. 4.Räumbootsflottille

Flieger-Bataillon Döberitz
Feldflieger-Abt. 17.
Führer Feldflieger-Abt. 35
Führer Landflieger des Flugparks 9
Führer Armeeflugparks 9
Kdr Flieger Süd
Fliegerbeobachter-Schule Köln
Kdr Fliegerbeobachter-Schule Jüterbog
FHK Elbing
FHK Stolp
RLM
Erg.-Offizier (Luftwaffe)
Leiter der Verbindungstelle Stuttgart des Luftkreis-Kdo. V, München, to Wehrkreiskdo. V
Offizier d.Lw. beim Gen.Kdo. des V. Armee-Korps and concurrently stellvertretender Kdr d. LuftgauReserve 15
stellv. Kdr Luftgau 15
Lw.-Attaché bei der Deutschen Vertretung bei der Nationalspanischen Regierung
Offizier z.b.V. des RLM und Ob.d.L.
Gruppenleiter Luftwaffe bei der Wehrersatz-Inspektion Nürnberg
Kdr des Wehrbezirkskommandos Ingoltadt
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt. 3/I
Offizier z.b.V. des RLM u. Ob.d.L.

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

This book pops up on book selling sites quite often:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Träger-Ehrenblattspange-Heeres-Waffen-SS-Ehrentafelspange/dp/3790902837

Cheaper options:

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?full=on&ac=sl&st=sl&ref=bf_s2_a1_t1_1&qi=KMJMwkIf3MmMQTpRYcURpOSmJk4_1649619308_1:1:1

Here's one list: 

https://www.tracesofwar.com/awards/145/Ehrenblattspange-des-Heeres-und-Waffen-SS.htm

Oberleutnant Werner Dabberdt

Highest rank reached: Hauptmann

Blindflugschule 3
2./Flugzeugführerschule C 21
Lw.-Festungs-Btl. III

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Hauptmann Ferdinand Muggenthaler

Highest rank reached: Oberst

Staffelkapitän 5./Kampfgeschwader 355
Staffelkapitän 5./Kampfgeschwader 53
Kdr FFS A/B 9
Kdr KGr.z.b.V. 700
Kdr IV./Transportgeschwader 4
Kdr II./Erg.TG
Kdt Fl.H.Kdtr. E 7/III

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Major Hermann Freiherr von Hofenfels

Born: 09 Jul 1883
Died: 02 Sept 1956

Highest rank reached: Oberst

Wehrbezirkskommando Wiesbaden

Oberstleutnant Hans Hückel

Born: 04 Oct 1891
Died: 15 Dec 1981

Highest rank reached: Generalleutnant

Kdr der Fl.Ausb.Rgt. 32, Ütersen and concurrently Kdt. Fl.H. Ütersen
Adjutant und IIa beim Luftflotten-Kdo
Gruppenleiter with Stab/Lfl.Kdo. 4
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt Liegnitz
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt 5/I Thorn
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt 3/I Neuhausen
Koflug Finsterwalde
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt. 8/VI Pleskau
Flughafenbereichs-Kdt. 10/XII Morlaix
Kdr der Luftflotten-Truppen 3
Kdr der Lw.-Leitstelle beim stellvertretenden Generalkommando XII Wiesbaden
Kdr der Lw. Leitstelle beim stellvertretenden Generalkommando II Stettin
Kdr der Lw.-Leitstelle Nord
Kom.Gen.d.Lw.-Auffangsstab Ost

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberstleutnant Ernst Denk

Kdr Lw.-Bau-Rgt 6/XI
Kdr Luftschutz-Abt 3
Kdr Luftschutz-Rgt 7 München

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberst Eugen von Bernhardi

Born: 05 Feb 1822
Died: 15 Feb 1910

Highest rank reached: Generalleutnant

1.Jäger-Abt
Garde-Schützen-Btl
Garde-Dragoner-Rgt
Kaiser Alexander Grenadier-Rgt
Kompanieführer II Btl 4.Garde-Landwehr-Rgt
Kompaniechef 9.Kompanie Kaiser Alexander Grenadier-Rgt
3.Garde-Grenadier-Rgt Königin Elisabeth
Kdr II Btl 1.Garde-Grenadier-Landwehr-Rgt
Kdr II Btl 3.Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Königin Elisabeth
Kdr 4.Brandenburgischen Infanterie-Regiments Nr.24 (Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Schwerin) 
Kdr 44.Infanterie-Brigade (Kassel)

Leutnant Hans Wittig

Born: 27 Jul 1918
Died: MIA 11 Apr 1944 - Mediterranean Sea NE of Algiers

Highest rank reached: Hauptmann

4./KG-77
Staffelführer 7./KG-77

DKiG: 19 Jan 1942

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberleutnant Kurt von Leutsch

Born: 28 Apr 1915
Died: MIA 26 Sep 1941

Highest rank reached: Major (Posthumous)

Adjutant Stab K/88 Legion Condor
III/KG-1
Staffelkapitän 9./KG-1

DKiG: 27 May 1942 (Posthumous)

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Major Hans-Josef Reichel

Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant

Staffelkapitän 4./KGr zbV 107
Staffelkapitän 2./KGr zbV 108
Kdr Blindflugschule 6
IV/KG-4
Kdr FFS B 17
Kdr FFS B 5

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Hauptmann Edgar Petersen

Born: 26 April 1904
Died: 18 Jun 1886

Highest rank reached: Oberst

KG-51
Stab 10.Flieger-Division
Staffelkapitän Fernaufklärungsstaffel Ob.d.L
Staffelkapitän 1./KG-40
Kdr I/KG-40
Lw.Führungsstab
Kommodore KG-40
Kdr Kdo.d.Erprobungsstellen d. Lw. and concurrently Kdr Erprobungsstelle Rechlin

RK: 21 Oct 1940
Wehrmachtbericht: 03 Oct 1940 & 20 Jun 1941

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Hauptmann Fritz Fliegel

Born: 30 Nov 1907
MIA: 18 Jul 1941 (Officially listed 01 Aug 1944) - shot down over the Atlantic

Highest rank reached: Major (Posthumous)

FFS A/B 42
FFS A/B 113
Staffelkapitän 2./KG-40
Kdr I/KG-40

RK: 25 Mar 1941

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries - Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)