Excellent Luftwaffe Soldbuch to a 5-year paratrooper assigned to 3. Kompanie of the famous Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1 throughout the war (940 to1945). Born on June 5, 1921, Drumm entered the Luftwaffe on September 20, 1940 at the age of 19 after completing his mandatory labor service. He attended the parachute training course at Stendal. In 1942 he was assigned to Feldpost number 49323 (Stab I Battalion, Fallschirmjäger Training Regiment 1.) He was issued a lot of equipment, including paratrooper pants, paratrooper boots, the paratrooper gas mask bag, a paratrooper ammunition bandoleer and grenade bags. He was also issued a pistol. Early in 1941 he was apparently injured in an accident, suffering from injuries to the face, a concussion, a broken collar bone and fractured ribs. There is an entry by the Braunschweig Air Force Hospital that on April 18, 1941 he was transferred to the Gotha Air Force Hospital for recuperation from the concussion and skull base fracture. He appears to have been hospitalized for most of 1941, as there is another entry for the Oberschreiberhau Air Force hospital on 24 July 1941 for additional recovery from the concussion and broken ribs and an operation, being transferred again to a recuperation hospital on 19 September 1941. This is probably how he survived the war, because the original Fallschirmjäger Regiment 1 of his intake era (1940) was almost completely wiped out on Crete (May 1941) and in Russia that fall and winter. Very well filled out Soldbuch to a paratrooper with uniform photo on the inside cover; awards not entered in this document as is sometimes the case (see item 3, below, the Ausweis, for a typical example of how the awards were not infrequently maintained on a separate Ausweis rather than inside the Luftwaffe Soldbuch). He would have certainly received the paratrooper badge and the Luftwaffe Long Service Medal for 4 years of service if nothing else so for five years his awards were recorded elsewhere.

New info added Nov 3rd 2025

"He was never assigned to Fallschirmjager Regiment 1. Assignend to Fallschirmjäger Training Regiment 1 but they weren't technically related as this was a training and replacement feeder unit to many other Fallschirmjager units. From what I see he was also in the hospital for much longer than described, Dec 1940 - July 43. He was an early volunteer but if I had to guess he was hurt during training (with a skull fracture and brain injury, probably jump training ) and just kept cycling through various Fallschirmjager systems as a hospital patient and never served in the field as a Fallschirmjager." Thanks Matthew for the additional info. Peter