Request help finding info about this German soldier

So I have this death card of Josef Lackerbauer. The card says he was killed in the east, doesn’t specify where specifically, on December 7th 1942. He was from Freiling. His rank was Gefreiter.

I searched for him on the German war graves commission site and I found one that seems to match with everything besides the name. Instead of Lackerbauer, it’s Lackenbauer. Same date of death, both killed in the east, both born in the same place and both have same rank. Do you think they’re the same person but just had a mix up of name spelling or are they 2 completely different people with just really close coincidences.

 

Misspelling is not uncommon anywhere where there is a long list of people...
eg: Spelling errors on Pembury War Memorial - BBC News

"The names of soldiers who lost their lives in the two world wars have been misspelled on a Kent war memorial, a local historian has discovered.

Richard Snow said eight out of the 67 names on the Pembury War Memorial in Pembury Road were inaccurate."

 

There is also the issue of handwriting. Many records were recorded by hand originally, then transcribed to into data bases. A handwritten small case r and an n can look very close.

 

Such misspelling is quite common among German war dead: after the war, a lot of personal data had to be processed by very few people. The fact that part of the central file of the German war graves commission burned down in 1955 did not make things any better.
If only n and r were exchanged and all other data match exactly, then you have found the right one.

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you!