Gentlemen, this is going to be a long story. My name is A. Reim and I am the great-grandson of Dr. Koschel. It all started when I discovered the award documents of my great-grandfather?s medals in a pile of documents at my parents place. I knew that his medals- except one- had been sold by my old people somtime in the 1990?s .They didn?t know about the documents or those would have been gone, too. I decided to investigate in the all-knowing google oracle about my great-grandfather and learned that his medals are by now anonymosly scattered all over the US and completly gone. Completely gone? No! A certain Rick Research bought the ribbon bars at some remote place and managed to trace the - by than - nameless bars back to my grandfather. I contacted Rick and he encouraged me to post the documents and some pictures of my great-grandfather in this forum and I hope they will be of general interest. The pictures are still a terrible mess from a cardbord box, but I hope Rick will help me to put them into something like a chronological order, with the help of medals and ribbons. Ernst Koschel was born May 27th 1875 in Hannover. Prior to starting a military carreer he was interested in poetry as this picture proves (taken 1885 in Berlin): Im not going to go into the details of his career, They can be found here: www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/Sanitatsoffizier/KOSCHEL_ERNST.html To be continued... Regards, A. Reim
