Mattyboy

An unknown Luftwaffe Major

Adolf Weitkunat https://alchetron.com/Adolf-Weitkunat#adolf-weitkunat-1725c633-e6ae-4452-ae6f-872a938fe6d-resize-750.jpeg

A few more names. Not sure if they are new additions or not. Ewald Hecker, Alexander Oldenbourg, Franz Ullrich. https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/310042/459/?tx_dlf[highlight_word]=Hausorden Hohenzollern https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/310042/837/?tx_dlf[highlight_word]=Hausorden Hohenzollern https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/310042/1177/?tx_dlf[highlight_word]=Hausorden Hohenzollern

Major Henrich Fhr von Welck https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/240581/36/0/?tx_dlf[highlight_word]=Hausorden Hohenzollern&cHash=400293a493aba23c70a4ac6237dcc66d https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/303792/742/0/ Lt dR Oskar Bornheim https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/310042/152/?tx_dlf[highlight_word]=Hausorden Hohenzollern

I know you have him already, but here is some award info for Hptm Oscar Hartung. From the Gothaische Zeitung dated 10th April 1918:-

Hi Daniel, Make that 402! Rittm Walter Heymann (also served in Flieger Abt 256). From the Dresdner Nachrichten dated 14.01.1933.

Thanks again! Great to see additional photos of him too

Not sure if he has been listed already: Lt dR Karl Lehmann - IR 94 https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00258970/JVB_19190225_047_167758667_B1_004.tif?logicalDiv=jportal_jpvolume_00303375&q="Karl Lehmann"

One more unknown officer

Thanks Glenn!

Thanks for your replies. Here is an unknown recipient

Hauptmann Ludwig Schüller. What is the last medal on his bar?

Lt Otto Lenz from IR 68, Hptm dLaD Heinrich Schrömbgens, and Lt Wilhelm Lindau https://www.dilibri.de/rlb/content/pageview/501066?query=hausorden https://www.dilibri.de/rlb/periodical/pageview/212953?query=hausorden https://www.dilibri.de/rlb/periodical/pageview/179897?query=hausorden

Lt dR (later Major dR) Otto Meiners. See pages 5 and 6 https://www.ema-os.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mitteilungen-9-10-1943.pdf

The guy at far right looks like he is wearing the retired aviators badge. If so, he is rather old for a pilot...

A rather high-ranking one, who I could not find in the MWB. Oberst aD Ludwig Haushalter

Lt dR Arthur Rahn. You can see the award date if you download the high-resolution photos. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/908890/german-ace-and-us-citizen-lt-arthur-rahn/

Hi all, This snippet about Lt Hans Müller is from the book on IR 142. I would like to know more about him (date of birth, date of awards etc.). Thanks!

Hi Daniel, Sorry I don't have anything on the WW1 career of Jans, and only one other newspaper clipping. Thanks to all for the additional info on Zeininger! Scratch that, I have found a Lt dR Josef Jans in the verlustlisten. Lightly wounded with IR 394. His date of birth matches the online records. Not much, but something at least. https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/1115669370

Leutnant dL Heinrich Zeininger (see page 8). Born 1867 ! http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv/Gartenkunst/Jg.52/B09.pdf

Rudolf Fischer from the 1942 edition of 'Garten Kunst'. Born 15 Dec 1883 in Berlin. See page 9 of the first file, and page 2 of the second link for details of his EK1. He was from GGR 3 and RIR 262. The book on the latter regiment notes his HOH3x award on page 238. He appears a few times in the verlustlisten. http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv/Gartenkunst/Jg.55/B10.pdf http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv/Gartenkunst/Jg.30/Anhang1.pdf http://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf[double]=0&tx_dlf[id]=http%3A%2F%2Fdigital.wlb-stuttgart.de%2Fmets%2Furn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Absz%3A24-digibib-kxp16632258343%2Furn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Absz%3A24-digibib-kxp16632258343.xml&tx_dlf[page]=270&cHash=6c3ecab334e9f6328518f1cc348b779b

Great work! Here is a 1932 article relating to a Josef Jans (b. 1894). I cannot find him in the MWB or any other publications from the war era. http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika/periodical/pageview/3430365?query=segelflieger hausorden

A first name and some additional awards. Oblt Dietrich Jentsch

Not sure if this is a new name or not - Oblt dR Georg Stephan from Altenburg. IR 153, died 1922. One more - Lt Karl Weber. His name is so common that it might be difficult to find out more about him :- http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika/periodical/pageview/7244269?query=Hohenzollern

Major von Reckow from FAR 63. I can't find him in the MWB or the Staatsanzeiger. http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/periodika/periodical/pageview/6944977?query=Hausorden 1917