Maria Sigrid Simmank

  General Notes:

Went to school in Gelsenkirchen
Dressmaker by profession- learned trade in Jewish family business. Maria also looked after the children for the Jewish family

Maria later married Corporal Heinrich Schneider. Fest./Pion Btl. 58. (position in the German Army) He was given a medal and was wounded in the second world war. Repeatedly wounded 15 Feb 1945. Received a Woundbadge in Black
Medal Document (Germany)

Wound Badge
Verwundetenabzeichen
VWA Schwarz WK1.jpg
1918 version in black
Awarded by Imperial German Army (WWI) German Army (Wehrmacht) (WWII)
TypeBadge
EligibilityMilitary personnel
Awarded forwounds or frostbite whilst on active service
Campaign(s)World War I & World War II
StatusObsolete
Statistics
Total awarded5 million awarded during World War II
The Wound Badge (German: Verwundetenabzeichen) was a military decoration first promulgated by Wilhelm II, German Emperor on 3 March 1918, which was awarded to wounded or frostbitten soldiers of the Imperial German Army, during World War I. Between the world wars, it was awarded to members of the German armed forces who fought on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War, 1938'9639, and received combat related wounds.[1] It was awarded to members in the Reichswehr, the Wehrmacht, SS and the auxiliary service organizations during the Second World War. After March 1943, due to the increasing number of Allied bombings, it was also awarded to wounded civilians in air raids.[2] It was awarded when the wound was the result of enemy hostile action, with an exception being for frostbite.[2]

The badge had three classes:

Black (3rd class, representing Iron), for those wounded once or twice by hostile action (including air raids).[2]
Silver (2nd class) for being wounded three or four times.[2]
Gold (1st class, which could be awarded posthumously) for five or more times wounded.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_Badge

Maria married Living

Maria next married Christoph Heinrich Warnecke, son of August Carl Wilhelm Warnecke and Christiane Henriette Wilhelmine Menneke, on 24 Aug 1934 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Christoph Heinrich Warnecke was born on 23 Nov 1904 in Rotthausen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany ⁴³ and died on 22 Jan 1944 in Rotthausen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany ⁴³.)