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! colspan="2" style="font-size: 125%; text-align: center; background-color: #d9e2f3; padding: 0.5em;" |Dr. Alfred Jauerneck
|-
! style="width: 42%; padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Full name
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Born
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |5 April 1892
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Birthplace
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |Posen, German Empire
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Civilian profession
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |Physician; later specialist in ear, nose, and throat medicine
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Military rank
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve''
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Approximate equivalent
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |Major-grade medical officer
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Branch
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |Heer
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Recorded wartime formation
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |''2. Feldlazarett (mot.), Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung 532''
|-
! style="padding: 0.35em; vertical-align: top;" |Document
| style="padding: 0.35em;" |''Wehrpass''
|}
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</gallery>'''Dr. Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck''' was a German physician who served as a reserve medical officer during both world wars. His surviving ''[[Wehrpass]]'' records his earlier military service, his status as an ''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve'', and his renewed mobilisation during the Second World War.

The document is especially valuable because it provides an example of a medically qualified reservist whose military career extended across several decades. Jauerneck was not an enlisted ''[[Sanitäter]]'' or medical NCO. He was a physician and held the rank of:<center><big>'''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve'''</big></center>The rank ''Oberstabsarzt'' was approximately equivalent to the ordinary Army rank of major. 'XUnited States War Department, ''TM 30-506: German-English Military Dictionary'', 20 May 1944, entry ''Oberstabsarzt''. Available online: [https://germanmanuals.com/images/German-English-DictionaryTM30-506.pdf German-English Military Dictionary].

== Early life ==
Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck was born in '''Posen''' on '''5 April 1892'''.

His ''Wehrpass'' records:
{| class="wikitable"
!Field
!Entry
|-
|Surname
|Jauerneck
|-
|Given names
|Alfred Heinrich August
|-
|Date of birth
|5 April 1892
|-
|Place of birth
|Posen
|-
|Nationality
|German Reich
|-
|Religion
|Protestant
|-
|Marital status
|Married
|-
|Civilian profession
|''Arzt'' — physician
|}
The personal-information page also records his parents. The surviving photograph appears to show Jauerneck in civilian dress.

His identity is independently supported by the surviving Posen population register, which lists '''Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck'''. ''e-kartoteka, Posen population register, entry for Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck: [https://e-kartoteka.net/de/search?signature=14547 e-kartoteka].''

== Medical education ==
Jauerneck completed medical training and wrote a dissertation published in Berlin in 1917:<center>'''Geschwülste am Wurmfortsatz'''</center>This title can be translated approximately as:<center>'''Tumours of the vermiform appendix'''</center>The dissertation comprised 30 pages and was published by H. Blanke in Berlin.''Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army'', entry “Jauerneck (Alfred Heinrich August)”: [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924101383622/cu31924101383622_djvu.txt Internet Archive].

His later medical career was connected with ear, nose, and throat medicine, usually abbreviated in German as '''HNO''' for ''Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde''.

== First World War service ==
The campaign page of Jauerneck’s ''Wehrpass'' records military service during the First World War.

The following entries are clearly legible:
{| class="wikitable"
!Period
!Recorded theatre
|-
|2 August 1914 – 15 September 1917
|Western Front
|-
|1 October 1917 – 1 December 1917
|Eastern Front
|-
|8 December 1917 – 30 November 1918
|Western Front
|}
A unit-history page also contains several earlier assignments. One of the most recognisable entries refers to:<center>'''4. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß'''</center>The page contains additional unit names and dates, but several are difficult to decipher reliably.

Jauerneck’s First World War service is significant because it explains his later reserve status. By the time the Wehrmacht mobilised in 1939, he was already an experienced physician with previous military service.

== Promotion to Oberstabsarzt der Reserve ==
The reserve-service promotion page records that Jauerneck was appointed:<center>'''Oberstabsarzt d. R.'''</center>with effect from:<center>'''1 January 1940'''</center>The abbreviation '''''d. R.''''' stands for:<center>'''der Reserve'''</center>An ''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve'' was therefore a reserve medical officer holding a major-grade rank.

This was a comparatively senior medical position. Jauerneck should not be confused with an ''Unterarzt'', ''Assistenzarzt'', or ''Stabsarzt'', which were lower grades within the military medical hierarchy.

== Wehrpass issued in Berlin ==
Jauerneck’s ''Wehrpass'' was issued in '''Berlin''' on:<center>'''28 August 1936'''</center>The first page bears a stamp from the responsible military administrative authority.

The document records a military registration number, or ''Wehrnummer'', beginning with:<center>'''Berlin V / 92 / ...'''</center>

== Mobilisation in 1939 ==
Jauerneck was mobilised again at the beginning of the Second World War.

The wartime pages contain a clearly visible unit stamp:<center>'''2. Feldlaz. (mot.)'''
Armee-San.-Abt. 532
</center>This can be expanded as:<center>'''2. Feldlazarett (motorisiert)'''
Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung 532
</center>In English:<center>'''Second Motorised Field Hospital'''
of Army Medical Battalion 532
</center>A ''Feldlazarett'' was a field hospital. It provided hospital-level care behind the immediate front line and could treat sick and wounded soldiers, perform surgery, stabilise patients, and prepare casualties for evacuation farther to the rear.

The abbreviation '''''mot.''''' stands for ''motorisiert'', meaning motorised.

The surviving stamps show that Jauerneck was connected with this hospital formation during the opening phase of the Second World War.

== Service in Poland ==
The campaign page records Jauerneck’s service during the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

The handwritten wording includes:<center>'''Feldzug gegen Polen'''</center>meaning:<center>'''Campaign against Poland'''</center>A following entry appears to refer to service with occupation troops in Poland:<center>'''Einsatz bei der Besatzungstruppe in Polen'''</center>The document therefore places Jauerneck and his medical formation in Poland during the early months of the war.

The wider historical context must not be overlooked. The invasion of Poland began a brutal occupation marked by extensive violence, persecution, and repression. A military medical document records an individual’s administrative service history, but it should always be interpreted within the context of the war and occupation in which that service took place.

== Release from active service ==
A later entry appears to record Jauerneck’s release from active military service in '''April 1940'''.

The handwriting is partly difficult to decipher. The safest interpretation is that his active wartime service with the field-hospital formation ended during the spring of 1940 and that he returned to civilian medical work.

The release did not erase his reserve status. Later pages contain administrative entries showing that he continued to remain within the military-registration system.

== Award ==
The decorations page records that Jauerneck received the:<center>'''Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse'''</center>on:<center>'''1 September 1943'''</center>This was the '''War Merit Cross, Second Class'''.

== Civilian medical career during the war ==
Jauerneck continued his work as a physician after his period of active wartime service.

A medical article published in 1943 identifies him with the:<center>'''Abteilung für Ohren-Nasen-Halskranke'''
des Städtischen Krankenhauses Berlin-Neukölln
</center>This was the department for patients with ear, nose, and throat disorders at the municipal hospital in Berlin-Neukölln. ''Alfred Jauerneck, “Geheilter Schläfenlappenabszeß mit Ventrikeleinbruch”,'' Archiv für Ohren-, Nasen- und Kehlkopfheilkunde'', vol. 152 (1943), pp. 247–252. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01587048 10.1007/BF01587048].''

The article was titled:<center>'''Geheilter Schläfenlappenabszeß mit Ventrikeleinbruch'''</center>or approximately:<center>'''Successfully treated temporal-lobe abscess with rupture into the ventricle'''</center>This publication confirms that Jauerneck remained professionally active as an HNO physician during the war.

== Post-war career ==
Secondary literature on the history of German ear, nose, and throat clinics records that Jauerneck later played an important role in rebuilding the HNO department of Berlin’s Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus.

A history of German HNO clinics states that Jauerneck took over leadership of the department in '''1948'''. ''Tilman Brusis,'' Geschichte der deutschen Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Kliniken im 20. Jahrhundert ''(Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2002), section on Berlin. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56301-0 10.1007/978-3-642-56301-0].''

His career therefore extended beyond military medicine. The surviving ''Wehrpass'' documents only one part of the life of a physician who also contributed to civilian clinical medicine and specialist medical literature.

== Selected timeline ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Date
!Event
!Confidence
|-
|5 April 1892
|Born in Posen
|Confirmed
|-
|1914–1918
|Recorded service on the Western and Eastern Fronts during the First World War
|Confirmed
|-
|1917
|Dissertation ''Geschwülste am Wurmfortsatz'' published in Berlin
|Confirmed by external bibliographic source
|-
|1 June 1936
|Appointed ''Stabsarzt der Reserve''
|Confirmed
|-
|28 August 1936
|''Wehrpass'' issued in Berlin
|Confirmed
|-
|1939
|Mobilised during the opening phase of the Second World War
|Confirmed
|-
|1939–1940
|Served with ''2. Feldlazarett (mot.), Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung 532''
|Confirmed by stamps; precise appointment not yet established
|-
|1939
|Recorded service during the campaign against Poland and subsequent occupation duty
|Confirmed in general terms
|-
|January 1940
|Appointed ''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve''
|Confirmed
|-
|April 1940
|Release from active military service appears to have been recorded
|Probable; handwriting should be checked
|-
|1943
|Published an HNO medical article while associated with the municipal hospital in Berlin-Neukölln
|Confirmed by external publication record
|-
|1 September 1943
|Awarded the ''Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse''
|Confirmed
|-
|1948
|Took over leadership of the HNO department at the Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhaus
|Confirmed by secondary literature
|}

== Transcription notes ==
This article is based on photographs of selected pages from the surviving ''Wehrpass''. Several entries remain difficult to read.

The following information is considered secure:

* the surname '''Jauerneck''';
* the full given names '''Alfred Heinrich August''';
* the date of birth: '''5 April 1892''';
* the birthplace: '''Posen''';
* the civilian profession: '''Arzt''';
* the rank: '''Oberstabsarzt der Reserve''';
* the effective date of that rank: '''1 June 1936''';
* the field-hospital stamp: '''2. Feldlazarett (mot.), Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung 532''';
* recorded First World War service on the Western and Eastern Fronts;
* recorded service during the campaign against Poland;
* the award of the '''Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse''' on '''1 September 1943'''.

The following points should remain provisional until clearer scans or archival sources are available:

* the complete ''Wehrnummer'';
* several early unit assignments;
* the full wording of the April 1940 release entry;
* the exact military appointment held within ''Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung 532'';
* whether the War Merit Cross was awarded with or without swords;
* several later reserve-administration entries.

== Source ==

* ''Wehrpass'' of Dr. Alfred Heinrich August Jauerneck, ww2archive.de collection. Selected pages photographed and examined for ww2archive.de.

== See also ==

* [[Wehrpass|Understanding the Wehrpass]]
* [[Soldbuch|Understanding the Soldbuch]]
* [[Ranks|German military medical ranks during the Second World War]]
* [[Medical units of the Wehrmacht]]
* [[German military medical abbreviations]]
* [[Researching an individual serviceman]]
* [[Ranks|Oberstabsarzt]]
* [[Feldlazarett]]
* [[Armee-Sanitäts-Abteilung]]

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