Militaria Archive

9./SS-Polizei-Regiment 2, SS Polizei Division

Photo album and paperwork of August Döring of the 9./SS-Polizei-Regiment 2 of the SS Polizei Division (12th October 1939-April 1942). Polizei-Schützen-Regiment 2 is listed as Polizei-Infanterie-Regiment 2 in some sources. Döring went on to serve in 1./SS-Panzer Regiment 1, part of the 1. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" (April 1942 - 9th May 1945). This partly civilian album covers the period up to April 1942, with just one damaged picture showing him in the SS Panzer Regiment 1 uniform. Paperwork includes the certificate document for the Wound Badge in Black (Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz) 10th August 1941, Booklet for the Deutsche Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL), Deutsche Reichssportabzeichen in Szhwarz, Polizei Mehrfachversicherungen (Quittungsbuch), 1937 promotion certificate & 1955 unterbringung schein. As well as a handwritten note outlining dates of rank change and wartime service record. Graves photographs include :Friedrich Arndt & Walter Becker (SS Polizei Regiment 2), both killed on 10th June 1940 in France (buried in Noyers-Pont-Maugis, Ardennes). Among the photographs are one showing Czechoslovakian or Protectorate Böhmen-Mähren Financní stráž (Finanzwache, Financial Guard=border guard), possibly taken in September or October 1938 & dating from his Schutzpolizei days. Sources - SS Polizei-Division, & SS-Panzer-Regiment 1

see also Husemann, Friedrich. Die Guten Glaubens Waren: Geschichte der SS-Polizei-Division, band I/II/III,