My Urgroßvater Alfred Kranz was born in Blasewitz (today part of Dresden) 16.2.1894. He was a telegraph worker in Dresden already before the war and before his military service. Later he was promotet to telegraph assistant. Unfortunately, there are only few facts known about his life and by now I could not proof them.
I was told that he worked on the telephone line for the royal residence in Dresden, putting the cables from the roof to the basement before the war. But there is no trace of him living in or near Dresden before 1921. I was told he used to be prisoner of war. But I could not find him neither in the German casualty lists nor in the french POW-lists. My Grandma told me, he used to work on a farm near Marseille and still was in mail contact with the farmer when she was a young girl (born 1921).
In his things I found a EK2 and a St. Heinrichs silver medal but I cannot trace him in the lists. So, questions over questions.