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Hi Alex I dont have the answer, only a possible hint. It exists a book about Saxon Hauptleute written by an author from Leipzig. Name something like Erhard Roth..?? His regiment was the Saxon 6 FAR which was FAR 68. This book probably have the information you are looking for. Gunnar

Thanks Andy Erwin Möschke is a probably candidate as the first commander of Festungsluftschiffer Truppe 29 despite his promotion date to Hptm is given as 5 Sep 14. The similar lists for the commanders of Flying units at BOW seems to have been made after some months and dont include correction for ranks... Anyone seen a summary list for the renaming of German balloon units in late 1916 - early 1917, similar to the list of renaming of flying units..?? Seems that German balloon units in WWI is an rather unexplored field... Gunnar

Who is who...?? The Hptm x Möschke was the commander of Feld-Luftschiffertruppe 29 when the War started (BOW). Strangely Lt dR Wener Möschke served in the same unit in 1915 according to www.idflieg.de. I have problems with that Oblt dR Werner Möschke was the commander of Luftschiffertrupp 5 in Mar 1917...Havent all the old units been renamed by that date..?? Anyway, I cant find Hptm Möschke later in the War within the German Air Force so I dont have promotions dates etc... he might have been promoted Major or he left the Air Force... Anyone knew more about Hptm Möschke..? Gunnar

Hi Alex I dont have hist first name, but his home regiment is given as IR 25. He was promoted to Hptm on 1 Oct 13. As you probably knew these FLAs were only stab units from 1917 until EOW. They consisted some Balloon züges, like a Jagdgruppe.. Thats all I have at moment Gunnar

Hi Alex I have that von Eickstedt died at Capri 26 Jan 42. Have him at FEA 3 in 1915, so the note when he received the award was probably old... Then I dont have exact dates, but later in 1915 he served BAM/KG2 (dont have specific Kasta) which unit he probably left in Feb 1916 for taking command of the Flieger Beobachter Schule in Freiburg (apparently meaning the Militärfliegerschule Freiburg). This is a rather fuzzy unit and was probably the base for creating the Geschwaderschule Freiburg there. However it actually seems that he left for taking over KES GHQ Charleville already on 1 Aug 16, before the Geschwaderschule was formed. Seems he stayed in this unit including the renaming you mentioned until Sep 1917. Then is it noted that he took over command of an AFP, but I cant figure out which yet.... Gunnar