The Doc Group of Dr. Jaensch

[Paul C]

Per the Rick Meister I am posting this group of docs for Lt. Jaensch. Up first is the EK 1 and 2 Doc.

[Paul C]

EK2 Doc

[Paul C]

wound badge doc

[Paul C]

I am unsure of what this doc is. This is the front.

Edited October 18, 2005 by Paul Chepurko

[Paul C]

back of above

[Paul C]

I was told that this doc lets him be called a Doctor but not get paid for it.

[Paul C]

Wehrpass with picture

[Paul C]

Wehrpass awards page, EK1 and 2 also I think Hindenburg.

[Guest Rick Research]

Oh, THAT Doctor Walther Jaensch?

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[Guest Rick Research]

That would be, uhhhhh, THIS Doctor Walther Jaensch

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From the December 1937 SS Seniority List (quality not great since it is xerox-printed from microfilm, I believe): a racial "body types" doctor with a background in eugenics in the SS, oh my!

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Now I don't FIND him in anything neck-elongating, but one has to wonder, doesn't one?

What does his Wehrpass show he did during the war?

[Guest Rick Research]

The little circle with an X glyph indicates "any and all other WW1 awards in the SS Seniority Lists, so he got something else from a German state.

Meanwhile, back to the 1935 "Wer Ist's?," his BROTHER Professor Erich Jaensch was also Famous And Eminent:

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[Guest Rick Research]

EK2 8 October 1914 in Infantry Regiment 22 "Keith" as Assistenzarzt der Reserve = 11th Reserve Division in the Varennes-Malancourt sector of the Argonne

EK1 19 July 1917 in Infantry Regiment 22 "Keith" as Oberarzt der Reserve = horrible losses to gas in untenable ground impossible to hold or shelter in around Lens, involving terrible Allied gas attacks

Black Wound Badge for wound received 22 March 1916 = at (H?)alancourt per the document-- this was during the Verdun slaughter. Moved from the Argonne in March 1916, by May the division had lost 68 percent of its infantry.

Posts #s 4-5 are his demobilization paper, discharged in Cassel 20 December 1918 with food allowances etc.

Post #6 (re?) appoints him as an Auxiliary Professor (as a recalled civil servant without right to a full time position) of internal medicine at the University of Berlin. He was only 50 in 1939, so why he would have been retired and called back and NOT had pension rights etc seems a bit mysterious... or dodgy.

Post #8 shows WW1 EKs 1 & 2, Black Wound Badge, (no other WW1 award as shown by the SS Seniority List), Hindenburg Cross X, and Hungarian WW1 Commemorative Medal (which is not what the SS were counting as a German WW1 award).

[Paul C]

Noted page in Wehrpass

[Guest Rick Research]

Well, that says per order of III. Armeekorps (Berlin) he was released from active military service as indispensable back to the University of Berlin for three months from Sanit?ts Ersatz Abteilung 3 (also Berlin), so

somewhere in there he HAD been called up for Wehrmacht service after the war started, and there must be firther record of what happened when the three months were up. That 1944 notation is a medical board certification that he was still classified as "fit for war service."

Oh, yeah-- and he wasn't entitled to any military allowances during that three months release from duty, either. What DID this guy LIVE on??????

[Dave Danner]

From the bio Rick provided:

? Professor

? Director of the Ambulatorium (outpatient clinic) for Constitutional Medicine at the Charit? Berlin (the Charit? still exists, but this clinic doesn't appear to).

? Docent (Lecturer) at the German University for Physical Exercise (Deutsche Hochschule f?r Leibes?bungen).

? After the war, from 1919 to 1929, he was an assistant to Prof. Dr. Gustav von Bergmann, a leading professor of internal medicine.

? In 1929 he was certified in internal medicine.

? In 1930 he began as a Lecturer at the German University for Physical Exercise.

? In 1932 he took the position of Director of the Ambulatorium for Constitutional Medicine.

? In 1933 he was a special lecturer for constitutional studies at the University of Berlin.

? He co-authored a clinical work on race hygiene and eugenics with Oskar Gundermann in 1934, and authored, co-authored or edited several other works on race, physiology and exercise.

? His specialties were internal and constitutional medical racial hygiene, personality research and biological psychology.

? His interests include boating, skiing, swimming and riding.

? He was a member of the Berlin Medical Society, the German Society for Psychology, the Nation Socialist German Doctor's League (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche ?rztebund) and the Assembly of Researchers and Physicians.

? Just the Iron Crosses and the Wound Badge are listed. Unlike others whose bios are on the page Rick shows, he had no awards from other states listed, nor a "u.a." indicating other awards.

[Dave Danner]

By the way, that guy Franz Jaff? has a much more interesting combination of awards than the others there:

• Prussia, Iron Cross 2nd Class
• Prussia, Red Eagle 4th Class
• Prussia, Crown Order 4th Class
• Landwehr DA 1st Class
• Lippe, War Merit Cross
• Lippe, Leopold Order 2nd Class
• Lippe, House Order of the Honor Cross 2nd Class with Swords
• Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Ducal Saxe-Ernestine House Order, Grand Cross
• France, Palmes Academiques
• Romania, Order of the Romanian Crown, Commander's Cross
• Montenegro, Order of Danilo, Commander's Cross
• Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Gold Medal of Merit in Arts and Sciences with Crown

Too bad he didn't make it into too many more "Who's Who"s - he died in on July 13, 1937.

By the way, he appears to have a Bacon number of at most 4:

• Jaff? was the set designer for Plague in Florence (1919), which was written by Fritz Lang.
• Fritz Lang directed American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950), which co-starred Robert Patten.
• Robert Patten was in Zigzag (1970) with Eli Wallach.
• Eli Wallach was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon.

Edited October 19, 2005 by Dave Danner

[JensF.]

The name of the village is Malancourt. It is northwest of Cote 304. On march 20 1916 a large attack of bavarian units took place in that area (including 3. InfReg from Augsburg and other units). In the back of that area they had many medical camps etc.

>Black Wound Badge for wound received 22 March 1916 = at (H?)alancourt per the document-- this was >during the Verdun slaughter. Moved from the Argonne in March 1916, by May the division had lost 68 >percent of its infantry.

Edited October 19, 2005 by JensF.

[Stogieman]

and it just goes to show you..... it is good to know the wizard!

[Glenn J]

Paul,

I tracked down Dr. Jaensch's promotion to Assistenzarzt der Reserve: 24.12.14. Although I can't make out the date on the EK2 document it appears to be signed in June 1915? Presumably therefore Dr. Jaensch was still an Unterarzt der Reserve at the time of the action in October 1914 which won him the award. The gazetting of his promotion shows him as assigned to Reserve-Feldlazarett 31 (VI. Reserve-Korps) in December 1914.

Regards

Glenn

[Rick]

Black Wound Badge for wound received 22 March 1916 = at (H?)alancourt

Malancourt. R.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Malancourt. R.

That is cool, in fact BETTER than cool..... Verdun Groups are very, very nice.

[Paul C]

I was able to access Jaensch's SS record at the US Archiv. Not alot of information, I guess he just wanted a new black suit to wear to dinner parties so he joined the SS.

[Paul C]

page 1 left side

[Paul C]

page 2

Edited March 7, 2007 by Paul C

[Ulsterman]

Oh I don't know -his Freikorps service is interesting, as is his EK1-which is unusual for a Dr.. Note also his NSDAP service at the university.

He is a classic Maiblumer. with that NSDAP entrance date.