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    GreyC

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    1. Glad I could help. Interesting that he wears the wound badge for the navy of WW1. GreyC
    2. Hi, it says Zur Erinnerung und als Dank - Bachmann, Admiral. If it is an authentic signature I cannot say. GreyC
    3. Seems to have been empoyed at Grenzschutz in the East after the war. I can see the Baltenkreuz and the Awaloff-Kreuz. Nice photo. Inbetween the Awaloff and the IC seems to be the Mecklenburger Militärverdienstkreuz 1st class. The wound badge was earned in WW1 but seems a postwar issue. GreyC
    4. The medical corps in the army of the Kaiserreich consisted of four main groups, one of which were the Militärkrankenwärter, conscripts unfit or unsuited for normal military service with weapons. They only got a short military training and constituted the main body of the Lazarett-personnel. They had distinctive uniforms. At the start of the war a Sanitätskompanie consisted of 312 men, most of them Krankenträger (245 stretcher-bearers) but also 8 Militärkrankenwärter. Feldlazarette were equipped with 60 personnel, among them 14 Militärkrankenwärter in 1914. Kriegslazarett-Abteilungen had a staff of 127, of which 40 were Militärkrankenwärter. Kranken-Transportabteilungen were manned with 31 men, of which 8 were Militärkrankenwärter. GreyC
    5. Pleasure! There is a multi-volume publication about Knightscross holders of WW2. Maybe there is more data on him concerning his career in WW1? GreyC
    6. Hi, I was able to read the 2nd Reg. Chronik of IR19. I read until March 1915. He wasn´t mentioned during the description of the activities, not even him being wounded, although this was common practise when officers were involved. HOWEVER: He is mentioned in the 1st list of personell of 6th August 1914 in Görlitz. He is listed as VzFw OA in 8th coy. So he was drafted as former Einjähriger who was not yet elected Leutnant der Reserve, but served as Vizefeldwebel and officer´s candidate. He seems to havbe stayed with 8th company until wounded sometime in late Dec. or January 1915. As he is listed as Ltn. d. R. in the loss list he must have been promoted to Leutnant between 6th of August 1914 and 25th Feb. 1915, the day his wounded in action status was published in the loss list. GreyC
    7. Well done! GreyC I have asked a friend to search the 2nd regimental history of 19. IR for his name. Might know more tomorrow. There is no RG for IR 329 unfortunately. GreyC
    8. I doubt it. He was born in Lettland and his father would have been quite young (underage). The other Kurt A. at Gandersheim can´t be him as he worked continously there. Unfortunately there doesn´t seem to be a personal military file at the Bundesarchiv? GreyC
    9. With the help of a colleague from another forum and some additional research on my part I can tell you, that Kurt Albrecht worked as Vermessungsrat (surveyor) and Katasteramts-Direktor in Hirschberg/Schlesien from at least 1935 until at least 1938/9. No mention 1941. Best, GreyC
    10. Hi, if Dave Danner is right (and much speaks in favour of it), and "your" Albrecht is this one: The Kurt Albrecht born in 1889 in Dahme was wounded as a Lt.d.R. in IR 19 in early 1915. The third ribbon is the Austro-Hungarian Militärverdienstkreuz 3. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration 3. Klasse, which he received as a Lt.d.R. in IR 329. He was quite lucky to get wounded when with IR 19. The usual timespan between getting wounded and this being reported in the loss list was approx. 4-6 weeks, so that he must have been wounded in January 1915. After that he seems not to have returned to IR 19. There are two regimental history, one of which is online. I checked it and there is no mention of him throughout. However the lists with serving officers initially do not give Kompanieoffiziere. They are mentioned only after February 1915. In those lists he is not mentioned. So he was probably transferred to IR 329 after his release from hospital. Good for him. Because his former regiment was then fighting at Verdun, the Aisne and other high profile battles with heavy losses while IR 329 was busy on the Eastern front until March 1918 when the regiment was transferred to the Western front. In the East the regiment probably fought together with Austrian units, hence his Austro-Hungarian Militärverdienstkreuz. GreyC PS: The 2nd regimental history of IR 19 is much more detailed and may mention him. Will try and find out. GreyC
    11. HI, it´s a normal soldier from a Linien-Artillerie Regiment in a Parade-Outfit. GreyC
    12. Hi, this is the house your relative lived in in Hamburg. As a Hafenarbeiter he lived near the harbour in a typical workmensquarter, albeit in the rear of the building pictured (Hinterhaus). https://www.google.de/maps/place/Hardenstraße+70,+20539+Hamburg/@53.5360168,10.032467,3a,75y,323.71h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smElcDKY-7JGZQ3sjxgQ6aQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x47b18e8bd6e545b5:0x2a517f466efb65a1!8m2!3d53.5359067!4d10.0321728 GreyC PS_ I, too, read Morgi. Might be a transmission mistake from the clerk at the Standesamt. Why he did not serve with a unit from Hamburg (being a resident there, is beyond me. Usually you were drafted at the place you lived at during mobilisation.
    13. Hi, nobody above the rank of Hauptmann. So probably not the staff of IR 163. More likely Kompanieführer-Treffen around 1915 orl later, as all have EKII and at least three EKI. Interestingly no medals on the Oberst. But it was the officer´s choice what to wear in a situation like that. GreyC
    14. As inhabitant of Hamburg he would have been registered with either Bezirkskommando 1,2 or 3. and if assigned to an infantry regiment, it would have been IR 76 or RIR 76. Other regiments in the region (as IR 163) were not out of question, but woulds have been a rare case, depending on the ability of the Bezirkskommando Neumünster to scrap up enough enforcements for its regiment or not. GreyC
    15. How do you come to that assumption? The IR 163 was garrisoned in Neumünster und Heide in 1914. It was formed in 1897 by contributions from regiments from Schleswig-Holstein (IR 31, 84, 85, FR86). The Ersatz was also from Schleswig-Holstein. Attached a photo from the inside of the barracks in Neumünster and a picture postcard with the barracks in Heide from my collection. The latter was only completed in October 1914. The III. Btl was stationed in Lockstedt from 1912-14. GreyC .
    16. He writes the card to someone who wrote him with his picture, both having belonged to the crew of SMS Mars at one time. Schlieper writes that he wants to live at least until 100 years old and that he belonged to ther Crew of 1880. GreyC
    17. Hi, are you sure about thne spelling? In the list of killed Prussian reserve officers there is no Buddee, but 8 Budde, one Bude and one Buder. Or do you mean Dr. Friedrich Buddee, born 16.03.18?? in Greifswald, Oberarzt d. Reserve, wounded in action and later reported dead in the Verlustliste of 03.09.1918. Did you buy this? https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/1405656-a-lot-with-uniforms-parts-for-german-wwi-medical-officer One of his doctoral dissertations was submitted at Greifswald University in 1910: Über Rechenversuche an Gesunden und Unfallkranken nach der Methode der fortlaufenden Additionen (1910) You can get it from a library it should contain a short CV till 1910. His father might have been Karl Buddee (1836–1910) Landgerichtsdirektor in Greifswald. He seems to have had at least one brother, also a medical doctor. GreyC PS: You find birtday and date of death as well as family-relations here: https://www.geni.com/people/Friedrich-Buddee/350677965540001178 You could have googled all that yourself within minutes.
    18. Hi Bayern, I never said he was an officer. I said/wrote I agree with your assessment of him being a Kanonier. GreyC
    19. He is from Fielkd Artillery Regiment (FAR) 8. With regards to rank I agree with Bayern. Kanonier, not officer. GreyC
    20. As I stated above, citing the statuts of the VWA (Verleihungsbedingungen vom 3.3.1918, that was not the case (as opposed to the Verleihungsbedingungen in WW2). If you have documents to the contraryI´d be glad to learn more about it. Thank you! GreyC
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