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Village Reports Commando Dr. Stumpp, 1942: List and Links

Each of the "Commando Dr. Stumpp" village reports written during German occupation of Ukraine 1942 contains a mountain of demographic data, names, dates, occupations, numbers of untimely deaths (revolution, famines, abductions), narratives of life in the 1930s, of repression and liberation, maps, and much more. The reports are critical for telling the story of Mennonites in the Soviet Union before 1942, albeit written with the dynamics of Nazi German rule at play.

Reports for some 56 (predominantly) Mennonite villages from the historic Mennonite settlement areas of Chortitza, Sagradovka, Baratow, Schlachtin, Milorodovka, and Borosenko have survived. Unfortunately no village reports from the Molotschna area (known under occupation as “Halbstadt”) have been found.

Dr. Karl Stumpp, a prolific chronicler of “Germans abroad,” became well-known to German Mennonites (Prof. Benjamin Unruh/ Dr. Walter Quiring) before the war as the director of the Research Center for Russian Germans at the “Deutsches Auslandsinstitut” (DAI) in Stuttgart.

With Germany’s occupation of Ukraine, Stump was commissioned by Alfred Rosenberg’s Reich Ministry for Occupied Lands of the East to create an official registry and historical overview of each occupied ethnic German village in Ukraine. A key ethnographic task of Stumpp’s commando was “to provide a genealogical and racial-biological assessment of the ethnic Germans in Ukraine.”

In 1942 administrators for “Special Commando Dr. Stumpp” entered Mennonite villages and, with the assistance of local ethnic German teachers and newly appointed officials, completed extensive questionnaires to document the population, history, and cultural and physical assets of each ethnic German village, including detailed registers of those who were deported, starved, and murdered in the 1930s.

The “TSDEA (State Electronic Archive of Ukraine)” links are most direct; the Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) copies are in batches of multiple reports—but without watermarks. The date given refers to the month the forms were drafted ("abgefaßt").


    ---Arnold Neufeldt-Fast

Source: Karl Stumpp, “Village Reports Commando Dr. Stumpp.” Prepared for the German Reichsminister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, 1942.

  • Adelsheim, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/621, Mappe 82, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, slide 712).
  • Alexanderfeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 48, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 258; slide 533).
  • Alexanderkrone (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 44, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 176; slide 357).
  • Altonau (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 38, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 313).
  • Blumenfeld, Rayon Nikopol, BA R6/622, Mappe 136, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 57; slide 114).
  • Blumengart, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 97, July 1942, (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, slide 381).
  • Blumenhof (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/702, August 1942, Mappe 160 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Blumenort (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 47, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 236; slide 485).
  • Burwalde, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 98, June 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 405; slide 843).
  • Chortitza District (Summary for arrested, deported, in Red Army, families without head, mixed marriages, etc.) BA R6/626 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 49, slide 101).  
  • Chortitza (Village), Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/621, Mappe 81, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 1).
  • Deutschendorf, Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 28, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv)
  • Dnjepropetrowsk, Petrikowka, Werchnja Dnjeprowsk (Berislav, Kherson), 10 village summaries, BA R6/626 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv). 
  • Eigengrund (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/623, Mappe 166, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Einlage, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/621, Mappe 83, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 415; slide 843).
  • Felsenbach (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/623, Mappe 127, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Franzfeld, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/621, Mappe 84, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 380; slide 780).
  • Friedensfeld, Rayon Nikopol, BA R6/622, Mappe 137, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 230).
  • Friedensfeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 46, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 211; slide 437).
  • Friesendorf, Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/623, Mappe 169, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv). (Previously a Jewish village, like Rotfeld)
  • Gnadenfeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 45, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 193; slide 401).
  • Gnadental (Baratov), Rayon Sofiejewka, BA R6/623, Mappe 182, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Grünfeld, Rayon Kriwoj-Rog, Dnjepropetrowsk, BA R6/624, Mappe 199, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 272)
  • Heuboden (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/623, Mappe 170, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Hindenburg (Kudaschewka), Rayon Boshedarowka, BA R6/623, Mappe: 192, June 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Hochfeld (Borosenko), Rayon Kriwoj-Rog, BA R6/624, Mappe 200, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, slide 399).
  • Hochfeld, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 85, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 1; slide 4).
  • Kathrinowka (Borosenko), Rayon Boshedarowka, BA R6/624, Mappe 193, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 4).
  • Kronsgarten (Chortiza), Rayon Dnjepropetrowsk, BA R6/703, Mappe 14, December 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Kronstal, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 99, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 441).
  • Kronsweide, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 86, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 322).
  • Lenintal (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/623, Mappe, 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Miloradowka (Borosenko), Rayon Boshedarovka, BA R6/706, Mappe 194, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv [scans start at 125 of 259]).
  • Münsterberg (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 50, June 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, slide 655).
  • Neu-Chortitza (Baratov), Rayon Sofiejewka, BA R6/623, Mappe 184, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Neu-Halbstadt (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 35, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 203).
  • Neu-Schönsee (Sagradovka) Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 42, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 99; slide 190).
  • Neuenburg, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 87, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 352).
  • Neuendorf, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 88, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 89; slide 180).
  • Neuhorst, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 89, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 142).
  • Nieder Chortitza, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/705, Mappe 100, May 1942, (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Nikolaifeld, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/705, Mappe [?], April 1942 (TSDEA;  Bundesarchiv).
  • Nikolaifeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 39, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 348).
  • Nikolaital (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/702, Mappe 176, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Nikopol Gebiet (District). Population overview /totals for Blumenfeld, Friedensfeld, Katharinental, Nikopol (city), Steinau. BA R6/706 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Orloff (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 45, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 432).
  • Osterwick, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 107, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 189; slide 393).
  • Reinfeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 40, 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 416).
  • Rosenbach, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/705, Mappe 91, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Rosenfeld (Borosenko) Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/702, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Rosengart, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 103, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 467).
  • Rosenort (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 36, February 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 231).
  • Rotfeld, Rayon Sofiejewka, BA R6/623, Mappe 185, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv) (Like Friesendorf, previously Jewish).
  • Schönau (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/620, Mappe 37, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 264).
  • Schöndorf (Borosenko), Rayon Friesendorf, BA R6/702, Mappe 180, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv).
  • Schöneberg, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 102, July 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 31; slide 65).
  • Schönhorst, Rayon Chortitza, BA R6/622, Mappe 92, May 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 159; slide 339).
  • Steinau, Rayon Nikopol, BA R6/622, Mappe 138, August 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 259). (See also Nikopol above).
  • Steinfeld (Borosenko), Rayon Kriwoj-Rog, BA R6/624, Mappe 207, April 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 629).
  • Steinfeld (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 43, March 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, sheet 124; slide 248).
  • Tiege (Sagradovka), Rayon Kronau, BA R6/621, Mappe 49, 1942 (TSDEA; Bundesarchiv, slide 595).

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To cite this page: Arnold Neufeldt-Fast, “Village Reports Commando Dr. Stumpp, 1942: List and Links,” History of the Russian Mennonites (blog), August 7, 2023, https://russianmennonites.blogspot.com/2023/08/village-reports-commando-dr-stumpp-1942.html.

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