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First, I just want to say thank you for posting your question and the information that you have. I wrote a very long post, so you may not want to read it all.

If you don't want to read it all, then here is the main helpful suggestion I have for you: Try the German military archive. It is suggested to call and speak with someone first (hopefully they speak your language.

Here is the long version of my post...

I've been looking for information about my grandfather also. He was also a Romanian German, but from Timisoara / Temeschwar. I had always assumed he was drafted into the Wehrmacht because he was a volksdeutsche®. From what I have read recently, however, is most volksdeutsche® from Romania were not drafted into the Wehrmacht or into the W-SS until some diplomatic laws changed in later 43-44 due to German losses against Russia.

(As a side note, some Romanian volksdeutsche did 'join' the Wehrmacht or W-SS before 43-44, but not nearly as many as I thought, --with the word 'joined' being used loosely here especially is 43-45.)

Your record from the Romanian archival service reflects that he was first in the Romanian national army and then in the German Army (either the Wehrmacht or W-SS; your record doesn't state he was in the W-SS, but the Romanian archives might not have more information about his service in the German military).

You might also want to contact German military archives as well. They truly exist. I'm sure they must have something to provide. I visited their site and from I can tell you is that you should call them by phone first so they can help you with your search. I really do think the German archives will have something because my grandfather was born in Romania, he was a volksdeutsche®, and because he received a pension from the German government for his military service in WWII.

I'm not sure *any* of the national archival services can provide extremely precise details and that you may think is available; you really will have to make some connections through research / reading before you can come to any conclusions. I trawled through forums like this and discovered some guy searched the archives in person to obtain the limited results he came upon; he did know a lot of stuff though.

Since you have a record (at all; I do not) with details about which regiment and companies he was in, you can use your records to find details of his regiments' and companies' actions during the war (a historian at axishistory.org recommended "Himmler's Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe," of which I have a copy. It will cover the general state of affairs for Romanian Volksdeutsche, not specific details. I would research the various regiments and companies he was in while in the Romanian army since you have factual information on that.)

Regarding some of what I know about my grandfather's service...

I don't know everything about my grandfather's service record or actual experience(s), but I can say a few things that might be helpful:

I have a picture of him. He looks to be between 15-17 in the photo. He was born in 1925. I think Romania entered the war in 1941. If so, my grandfather was probably 16 in the photo. He is wearing a uniform in the photo I have, but there are no markings to indicate what service he belonged to. This makes me think he was in the Romanian service first, which also reflects the situation of most Romanian volksdeutsche. Believe me, I've been scouring the internet for W-SS, Wehrmacht, and Romanian national army WWII tunics, coats, etc,. and haven't found any direct matches (it looks like an over sized coat, square but rounded collars, and one line of light or perhaps shiny buttons over a darker fabric).

I was told my grandfather drove a motorcycle for an officer. My grandfather's rank was as 'private' or the equivalent. He told me himself (well over 26 years ago) that he was captured. My grandmother told me (because he told her apparently) that he and other German / Romanian soldiers would throw mud at the Russian soldiers while they were being held prisoner (if this is true, he probably wasn't captured or guarded by Russians exclusively because he would have been killed for doing that otherwise); not sure if he was being guarded by Russians after being captured or if there was another section of Russian POWs who were also being guarded and throwing mud back at the German POWS, near where he was being held. This is something I've been trying to figure out: Who had he been captured by? My guess is by the Allies. But when and where I don't know yet.

I know he worked on a farm for what seemed like wealthy landowners / farmers somewhere in France (after 1945) for sometime before he and my grandmother emigrated (1951). I read that the allies were on the fence about sending romanian volksdeutsche back to romania because of what was happening to volksdeutsche in serbian banat. I believe they lived in Austria before emigrating.

All of the information i provided about my grandfather is not an uncommon experience for many Romanian volksdeutsche that lived past 1945.