English Translation

A b s c h r i f t . Mourning service for l-Brif. Dr. S t a h l e c k e r on 26 March 1942 at the Prague Castle. Today we have a serious duty to say goodbye to our H-comrades S t t a l e C k e ro r . As the commander of his security police forces, he was seriously wounded in the defeat of Bolshevik factions south-west of Lake Ilmen and killed his injuries during the home transport. As with many other comrades, the Schicksal now found it right that Walter Stahlecker gave his life for leaders and people. His last effort was, like his whole life, filled with fighting joy, untiring zeal for duty, and with a disrespectful attitude towards his person when it was necessary to be the leader of his men. Born on 10 October 1900 in Sternfels in Württemberg, he devoted himself to legal studies in Tübingen after completing his Maturity Examination at the Gymnasium in Tübingen. Dr.jur. In the summer of 1918 he entered the Res.Infanterie- regiment 122 in Reutlingen to become an active officer. This goal was abruptly thwarted by the collapse of 1918. The deep and incisive events that we all experienced in the same generation have, as with all of us, been decisive for his way of life and his attitude to life. Thus, the period between 1920 and 1923 led him into the ranks of the Freikorps and frets. - Brigade Ehrhardt, student battalion, police hundred of Esslingen and finally the old NSDAP were the organizations in which he became active in the sense of his people's attitude. So t.l.1.p-168/42