[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Dear Gerhard,

You can scare someone (:-) but the Werkenr. 290105 first appeared in the lists of Verluste der Nachtjagdverbände from the late Hans Höhler (Gemeinschaft der Jagdflieger). This Werkenummer was copied into Roland Remp's wellknown He219 book.

First of all, the first He219 with a Werkenummer in the range 2901xx was actually 290110 and not sooner delivered then end of September 1944. Therefore 290105 cannot be correct.

Secondly, the Namentliche Verlustmeldung of the He219 which crashed near Hopsten gives another, more credible option: 210905, one of the first five, seriesproduced He219A-0's from Heinkel Rostock.

Case closed? One would say so but I have some contradictive references for 210905:

20 May 1944 : 1. Werkflug in Rostock (Flugbuch Lietsche)
13 June 1944 : transferred from Rostock to 2./NJGr.10 in Finow (EHW archive)
28 July 1944 : I./NJG 1, G9+EK, selbstbeschuss, belly landed Erbenheim (EHW archive)
31 July 1944 : 2./NJGr.10, 28 July 1944 selbstbeschuss, belly landed Erbenheim (EHW archive)
9 Sept.1944 : 2./NJG 1, G9+DK, Hopsten, 3 Tote (NVM= 210905)

Therefore, there might be a mix-up somewhere and there is still some margin of error.

Herzlichen Grüssen aus Venlo, Marcel