Feldpost Numbers

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Dave Williams
Need help with Feldpost Numbers and translations...
Tue Nov 6 17:38:03 2025


Hello All,
Does someone have (or could point me towards) a listing of Feldpost Numbers used by Jagdgeschwaderen during the period 1944-45?
Also, is there anyone who would be willing to assist me in translating a large number of personal letters from one or more pilots (from what I believe is JG 2) during the same period?
TIA!

Dave Williams

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Patrick
[email protected]
Feldpost
Thu Nov 8 18:14:56 2025


Hello Dave,

Do you own the book "Luftwaffe Codes, Markings & Units 1939-1945"? If not, let me know and I will see if I can make an Excelsheet of the Feldpostnummers.

Greetings,
Patrick

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Joerg Wurdack
Feldpostnummer
Sat Dec 8 11:43:37 2025


Please help decode
feldpost number

L 55 040

January 1944 - April 1945?

Maybe its an anti-aircraft-artillery unit.

Thanks!

Joerg Wurdack

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Larry deZeng
L 55040
Sat Dec 8 14:27:42 2025


Jörg -

4.Battr.le.Flak-Abtl.958 (E-Tr.) during the entire period.
HTH
(Larry)

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Jörg Wurdack
Feldpostnummer
Sun Dec 9 09:13:08 2025


Many Thanks!

Jörg

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Jörg Wurdack
Feldpost number
Fri Dec 14 08:33:29 2025


Please help decode fieldpost number:

L 10380 in th year 1941?

Thanks
Jörg Wurdack

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Larry deZeng
L 10380
Fri Dec 14 17:30:34 2025


1941 to summer 1943: 5.Battr.Res.Flak-Abtl.907, dann 4.Battr.Res.Flak-Abtl.297.
HTH,
L.

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Jörg Wurdack
Fp-Nummer
Sat Dec 15 09:09:28 2025


Thanks - very helpful!
Jörg

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MGibbs
Aircrew search
Sun Dec 16 22:57:00 2025


Greetings,
Long shot i know but does anyone happen to be able to identify the unit which usd Feldpostnummer L28033 from 1941..? Someone is looking to ID a member of aircew from some documents listing awards which are :
5. Nov.1941 Verw. Abz. in Schwarz
24. Nov. 1941 EK2
15. Aug. 1942 Frontflugspange in Bronze
15. Sept. 1942 EK1
27. Sept. 1942 Frontflugspange in Silber
11. March 1943 Frontflugspange in Gold
2. Nov. 1943 Ehrenpokal für Bes. Leist. im Luftkrieg
15. March 1944 Aufhänger z. Frontflugspange in Gold
5. May 1944 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
Since he has the Honor goblet I wondered how many of thsoe would have been awarded?
Looks like they were attached to a Aufklärungs Abteilung form the doc scans I have seen.
Any ideas anyone..?
Regards
MGibbs

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Larry deZeng
L 28033
Mon Dec 17 12:51:39 2025


1.(H)/Aufklärungsgruppe 11. In 1941 it provided close reconnaissance support to 7.Pz.Div./Panzergruppe 3 from the Bialystok area in NE Poland across the central sector of the Eastern Front via Vitebsk, Vyazma, Klin and then back to Vyazma. Returned to Germany in Dec 41 to rest and refit.
HTH.....
(Larry)

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Peter Kassak
Feldpostummern and Luftwaffe units...
Sat Apr 13 13:41:50 2025
158.195.16.233

HI all.

I have a specific question.
Is it possible to identify the Luftwaffe unit according to the Feldpostnummer? did the units have their own Feldpostnummer during the all time of WWII? Or it was related to the airfield?
I would greatly appreciate if you can sent me some list of the feldpostnummers and the units who owned them.
I am interested in 1943-44, mainly Austrian area.
Thanks for any help...

Peter http://lwag.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Larry deZeng
FpNs
Sat Apr 13 23:23:36 2025
64.12.104.21

The Feldpostnummern ran all the way up to around 85000, and many of them were issued and reissued as many as 5 or 6 times as units were formed and disbanded. People look them up in the following reference:
Kannapin, Norbert, Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945. 3 Bde (I – III) (Osnabrück, 1980-82).
This is a massive tabulation of all of the Feldpostnummern.
(Larry)

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PK
Thanks a lot (n/t)...
Mon Apr 15 07:56:45 2025
158.195.16.233

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Tom
Feldpostnummer
Sat May 25 08:59:32 2025
212.125.48.14

Hi everybody,
I have a question concerning a Feldpostnummer. It is "L 28731 or 28751". Which unit is it?

Thanks Tom

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Larry deZeng
FpN L 28731
Sat May 25 17:05:00 2025
205.188.198.178

is III./JG 77. L 28751 was a Heer number.
(Larry)

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Tom
Re: FpN L 28731
Sun May 26 16:46:07 2025
212.125.48.12

Thank you very much, Larry, do you also know the Staffel of III./JG 77?
Regards
Tom

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Larry deZeng
III./JG 77
Sun May 26 18:03:33 2025
152.163.197.84

Gruppenstab III.: L 24187, 28731;
7.St.: L 33858, 31587, 09797, 32936;
8.St.: L 30508, 32936, 33746;
9.St.: L 18152, 34840, 63624;
10.St.: L 31587;
11.St.: L 32936;
12.St.: L 60738.
To sort these out, you need the 3 Norbert Kannapin volumes on the Feldpostübersicht (Biblio Verlag, early 'eighties), or the Rosch book on Luftwaffe Codes and Markings (Schiffer Publishing, 1995) or the 4-volume Jochen Prien history of JG 77. It's all there.
(Larry)

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Donald Anderson
Feldpostnummern question
Tue Jun 4 05:13:32 2025
68.12.170.46

In perusing Rosch's book on Luftwaffe codes I'm curious if the field postal numbers assigned to Luftwaffe units represent a fixed location on a map in time or exactly what? Hoping to pin down the location(s) of Seenot Staffel 81 in 1944 -45.

Thanks,
Donald Anderson

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Andreas Brekken
Locations & FP Nummern
Tue Jun 4 11:25:13 2025
129.240.8.184

Hi, Donald.

I am by far an expert on this, but I have the books by Kannapin covering the FP Nummern.

As far as I have understood, the FP Nummern was assigned to a unit, and there is no connection to location.

(other than maybe regional listings by the higher order offices)

Regards,

Andreas Brekken

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Nick Beale
FPN and location
Tue Jun 4 18:30:16 2025
212.159.1.2

I'd always assumed that the aim of the a system (the British have BFPO = British Forces Post Office and no doubt other countries do something similar) was to avoid revealing a unit's location. By using just a number, you wouldn't broadcast in the public postal system where your military units were. Also, it means that families at home don't need to know where a unit is - and of course units can move often - to get a letter to a soldier. Only the military authorities know where unit FPN XXXXX actualy is.

I guess that locations at a given time would only be revealed this way if the records of the military postal system survived. Now there's a new research topic!

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Andreas Brekken
Surviving records
Wed Jun 5 08:21:11 2025
129.240.8.184

The records that have survived are the allocation of FP Nummern, from the records of the Feldpostmeisters office I believe.

I must reread the foreword of Kannapins book to see if he says something about what else might have survived.

My guess is that the Germans used some form of hierarchy, where the surviving records of the postmaster general would only indicate which larger area a unit was located (like Norwegen, Frankreich.... etc etc), or maybe by which higher unit the mail was to be sent. You would probably then have to check out if records from these units have survived.

I have not seen other publications by Kannapin, but I would suppose that some philatelists and collectors of Feldpost would have a good idea on how this was organized. Hell, they even know outside which street address the special private local post boxes of small cities in Norway were placed.....

So if You are really into finding out via this "back door" where a unit was at a given time, I would try a search into the world of philately. I would not be surprised if there are dedicated researchers doing great work on the reconstruction of the posal system of the German armed forces of World War II.

Regards and a big smile from sunny Norway!!

Andreas

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Larry deZeng
Re: Feldpostnummern question
Tue Jun 4 15:13:54 2025
205.188.195.173

Seenotstaffel 81, FpN L 11334, had its Kommandostab and main component at Bug auf Rügen during its entire existence from 19 August 1944 to the end of the war. However, it operated small air-sea rescue detachments (Kommandos) from seaplane bases and airfields around the Baltic. For example, on 25 Apr 45 it had 5 Do 24s at Bug auf Rügen, 2 at Travemünde, 2 at Großenbrode, 1 at Swinemünde, 1 at Aalborg, 3(2) Me 410s at Parow and 3(2) Ju 88s at Parow.
HTH,
(Larry)

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Donald Anderson
Thanks, guys! That's useful info! n/t
Wed Jun 5 03:39:39 2025
68.12.170.46