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    1. Wow! You folks know so much and are so generous with your time! I am very grateful for your help. Both of you say he may have started in the cavalry or artillery. What is it about his uniform that suggests this to you? Is it possible he was NOT a pilot? (I based my guess on the close match of his uniform to the well-preserved tunic in this thread). The artillery would have been unlikely for him, but we do have a dramatic snapshot of him on a large white horse, all decked out as a formal horse-rider, but not in uniform -- so the cavalry might be an option, Hugo Stefan Kohn, PhD was not a military man. He was a chemist; his field of research was the nutritive chemical composition of artificial or processed animal feeds, a new field of development at that time. (This might explain a cavalry interest.) He was born and raised in Nuremberg to a wealthy Jewish banking and manufacturing family -- and quite a few of the men in the family patriotically enlisted in the German forces during World War One. Surnames in the family were Kohn (bankers), Bing (toy train manufacturers), Reizenstein (musicians), Hopf (hops dealers to the German beer industry), Oppenheimer (bankers), and so forth. Virtually all of them were cousins to one another. Hugo Kohn had lived and worked in England in 1908 before returning to Germany; he also travelled to Hungary and married a Jewish theater actress there. He was quite a character. He escaped the Nazis by travelling to England to stay with friends and family there, and he survived the Second World War. The idea of him in military uniform was actually quite surprising to us. My cousin found this photo among his mother's memorabilia after her death. The "Hugo" is written on the back, but it is in the handwriting of a niece of his and was added in the 1950s.
    2. Here is a photo of my great uncle Hugo Kohn taken right after he enlisted to fight in WWI. The photo was taken in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) with the Frauentorturm (Women's Gate Tower) behind him. He wears no decorations -- he had not yet gone to the front, i believe -- and he seems to be wearing a Bavarian pilot's uniform. Any comments on this image?
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