Extensive grouping to Major d. Res and commander of II./Infanterie-Regiment 55 Karl Heiland. The grouping was never available on the market before and came of a household clearance lately.
Heiland, born on 24.2.1916, served as an SS-Unterscharführer with SS-Sturmbann I/73 before the war. He was a law student serving as a NS-Studentenbund leader at the same time. Heiland has started his military service time on 1.10.1934 with Infanterie-Regiment 21 and was discharged on 12.10.1935 finishing his service time. He was called back for service on 26.8.1939 and served in the Poland Campaign and the France Campaign. In 1940, he was ordered to II./Infanterie-Regiment 55 as a young Kompanie leader and sent to Russia in summer 1941. He stayed with this regiment which was part of 17. Infanterie-Regiment until he was reported missing in action on 30.9.1943. Heiland served as commander of II./Inf.Rgt.55 in Russia at this time with only 27 years of age.
Major Karl Heiland was posthumously awarded the Knight’s Cross on 27.10.1943.
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Personal photo album No. 2
This album starts on 29.3.1934. The majority of the photos show Heiland serving with the Reichsarbeitsdienst in Ebermannstadt. The last pages document his time serving with Infanterie-Regiment 21 in Nürnberg. He started serving with the Wehrmacht on 1.10.1934 as proven by his Wehrpaß. The first page showing Wehrmacht photos is titled "Barras in Nürnberg". (Barras is a German nickname for the military forces).
