SS Wehrpass Kavallerie Regiment, SS Sturmmann Fillip Kinkel.

An amazing SS Wehrpass named to an SS Sturmmann Fillip Kinkel.
Filipp Kinkel was a “Volksdeutsch” German, born in part of Hungary. He volunteered for service in the SS and was inducted into 11 Kompanie / Rekruten Depot der Waffen-SS in Debica and took the oath of allegiance on 9 August 1942.
On 16 June 1942 he joined 3 Schwadron of the newly formed SS-Reiter Regiment 3, which was being formed in Debica ,with the rank of SS-Reiter. At the time this new Regiment would join SS-Reiter Regiments 1 and 2 from the former SS-Kavallerie Brigade to form the new SS-Kavallerie Division and was itself redesignated from a Reiter-Regiment to a Kavallerie Regiment.
At this time the commander of the new Division was SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Willi Bittrich who was replaced on 15 February 1943 by SS-Standartenführer Fritz Freitag and on 19 April 1943 by the notorious SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Hermann Fegelein who had commanded the original SS-Kavallerie Brigade in committing countless atrocities.
As part of the renumbering of all Waffen-SS divisions, the unit was finally given the designation 8th SS Cavalry Division on 22 October 1942 (later given the honour title “Florian Geyer”) It fought in the winter of 1942/43 in the frontal arc near Rschew (Rshew) as well as, again under the designation Kampfgruppe "Zehender" ("Z"), against Soviet troops which had broken through near Orel. In 1943, now subordinated to Heeresgruppe Süd (Army Group South), the division was involved in the defensive battles west of Kharkov, on the Dnieper and in the Kremenchug-Kirovograd area.
After approximately 9 months he is shown in the SS-Kavallerie Ausbildung und Ersatz Abteilung, Genesenden Schwadron ( recuperation squadron) suggesting had either been exhausted or developed illness during his combat service but appears not to have been actually wounded.
He subsequently spend some time on staff postings with the SS-Führungshauptamt before joining the Transport Escort Kompanie on on 15 November 1944. After two weeks he was posted to the SS-Transport-Sicherungs-Kompanie 500, his final posting. This was the security escort unit of the Transport Command of SS Main Office. He appears to have survived the war.
The pass is in very good used condition with the pages all tight and none missing.
SS-Kavallerie Wehrpass' are getting difficult to source.
Special thanks to Gordon Williamson for researching the pass.
Rare piece.

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