Soldbuch and Extensive Document Group to Ernst Leopold Becker – SS-Totenkopf-Division & Zahnärztliche Einsatzabteilung 500

Soldbuch and accompanying personal documents to Ernst Leopold Becker. He was born 12.12.1910 in Saarbrücken. Before the war, he trained as a dentist, passing his exams with the grade “gut” in Karlsruhe in April 1934. He established an independent dental practice in Bendorf/Rhein, as evidenced by his 1938 equipment payment plans and multiple police certificates of good conduct (Führungszeugnis) from Saarbrücken and Bendorf.

His Soldbuch was opened on 16.1.1940 by the Stab of I. Battalion, SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 9. His Erkennungsmarke reads 27 Stab. I. SS-T. I.R. 9 with blood group A. He was promoted to SS-Unterscharführer on 1.3.1940 and later reached the rank of SS-Oberscharführer (Zahntechnischer Meister) on 1.8.1943.

He served initially with SS-Totenkopf-Infanterie-Regiment 9. He then transferred to the 4. Sanitäts-Ersatz-Kompanie der Waffen-SS, followed by service with the Stabsbatterie of SS-Artillerie-Regiment 3 (part of the SS-Totenkopf-Division). Ultimately, matching his civilian medical expertise, he was assigned to the Zahnärztliche Einsatzabteilung der Waffen-SS 500 (Waffen-SS Dental Deployment Battalion 500).

He was hospitalized at the Feldlazarett of the SS-Totenkopf-Division from 24.10.1941 until 6.11.1941 suffering from Lungenentzündung (pneumonia).

He was awarded the Medaille Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42 on 2.8.42, the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz on 19.3.43, and the Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen on 22.5.43.

This massive grouping also deeply covers his post-war life. His dental practice in Bendorf was destroyed or lost due to the war, which is documented by later witness statements for property loss claims. He was interned by the Allies from June 1945 until October 1947. In 1948, he underwent denazification (Spruchkammer Ludwigsburg), where records noted his NSDAP membership (since May 1937) and Allgemeine-SS membership (since September 1933); he was classified as a “Mitläufer” (Follower) and amnestied.

The files detail his personal struggles after the war, including searching for a new dental practice in 1949 and his divorce from his first wife, Martha (née Adam), finalized at the Landgericht Heilbronn in 1949. The lot contains a wealth of supplementary paperwork, including his civilian Führerschein (driver’s license), a 1941 paternity acknowledgment for a child born in Danzig, personal letters from his daughter in East Germany (DDR), marriage institute letters, and finally his 1981 Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) confirming he passed away on July 6, 1981, in Waiblingen.