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    jonv

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    1. Sorry if I'm repeating Old News here, but was very happy to find the SLUB webpages  (Sächsische Landesbibliothek — Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)...

      This site very nicely complements the Hathi site, which has several missing Saxon Ranglisten.

       

      SLUB has all of the books, at least 1850 - 1914, very easy to find and download as PDF.  Also various and sundry regiment histories available.

       

      https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/31677/1

       

      * find the scroll down menu to the left of the above page.

    2. A couple questions regards Generalmajor Otto von Lossow:

       

      The two included photos are both in Lossow's German Wiki, but ... is this truly the same guy?

      It just does not look like the same person, to me.

       

      Also trying to pin down von Lossow's promotion date to Generalmajor. Again, the Wiki shows

      19.04.1916 (I have 12.04.1916 in my notes), but ... the Bavarian Rangliste of April 1918

      seems to have the date at 17.04.1917.  The note "ohne Patent" here I'm assuming is not the

      same as "charakterisiert".  Was his promotion possibly ante-dated at some later point?  I could not

      find him listed in the Mil-Wochenblatt 1916-1917 nor the Bav. Verordnungs-blatt 1916-1917.

      Lossow_A.jpg

      Lossow_B.jpg

      lossow1.jpg

    3. OK, ob jemand mir bitte helfen könnte, information (Adresse, Beschreibung) oder photos einer der folgenden Armeekorps-Gebäuden zu finden?
      Ich habe jetzt mindestens 20 Jahren fruchtlos versucht, etwas zu finden:

      1.   VII. AK HQ in Muenster
      2.   XII. Saechs-AK HQ in Dresden
      3.   XVIII. AK HQ in Frankfurt aM
      4.   I. Bay-AK HQ in Muenchen

      many thanks! Jon
      http://www.prussianmachine.com/
       



    4. Looking for some help re the III. Armeekorps Generalkommando headquarters facility in Berlin.
      I understand that in the 1914 time frame, the building was located near Magdeburger Platz at the
      address: 2 Genthiner Str., and co-located with the Intendantur, as the below map shows:




      I've tried for 20 years to find an image of this building, no success... but then .... I found the below
      undated photo which is great. I'm very very happy .... There's always a however, though, and I think
      Genthiner Strasse is not really in Charlottenburg, as is labeled on the photo.

      So, wondering if the photo is indeed the Genthiner Str building??   Or, maybe another III.AK Genkdo facility
      that was actually in the Charlottenburg section??:
       

      map_berlin4.jpg

      GenKdo 3.AK.jpg

    5. Thank you so much, Glenn, for answering both questions. 

      On the second one, I guess it is more complex than I'd thought, although I am limiting the question to general officers.

      I've considered (mistakenly?) the terms Epauletten and Achselstücken as interchangeable and so have used epaulet
      to describe both. 

      So the question is if there was a dated order to phase out the older fringed epaullette, seen below with Wilhelm I?  
      Images of WW1-era generals seem to only depict tunics with the oblong-shape Achselstück that Moltke is wearing:

      Jon

      epaulett.JPG

      achselstueck.JPG

    6. General-Adjutant Weiland Seiner Majestaet des Kaisers und Koenigs Wilhelm I.

      Many, many thanks!

      I wasn't sure if weiland was modifying G-A or S.M. (?)
      Either way, to translate as -- former adjutant general of his late Majesty --
      seems to capture it ... although one of those would be implied in the German.

      For some reason, the Rangliste stops including this information in 1909.

       

    7. Looking for a smooth English translation of Generaladjutant Weiland Sr. Majestaet
      The generals connected with Wilhelm I. and Friedrich III. continued appearing in the Ranglisten for several years after both Kaisers died in 1888.  
      Was their listing purely ceremonial, or did any of them have real function or influence within Wilhelm II.'s court???

    8. Wow, Glenn - the Deutsche Ordens-Almanachs are great, although maybe a bit unwieldy. 
      I'm assuming they are very authoritative, or have you noticed errors?

      Example1:  the two Guenthers Etzel and Pappritz are both confirmed in the Rangliste as Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps veterans, but neither is credited with China-Denkmuenze DChM in 1904 / 1908. 

      Example2:  Max v Prittwitz u Gaffron is credited with DChM in 1908, but I can't find evidence he ever went to Asia.

      My question is if I assume the Almanach is correct or does my cross-referencing with the RLs demonstrate errors?

    9. Thanks, fellows, for the quick response! ... sort of good news - bad news. 

      I'm wondering, Glenn, if since the Ranglisten do not show campaign medals, are there other clues pointing toward the soldier having been engaged in war?  I mean, I may just have to be satisfied with confirming the individual's active duty status in 1864  ((for example, I found both SekLt Hans von Plessen and PremLt Graf von Haeseler)) ... but I thought, certainly Prussia would somehow officially recognize a combat veteran in the RL.

      currently thumbing through Militaer-Wochenblatt items but wow, so tedious:
       

      haeseler.JPG.69dc699f47cdcf77f855c2283ee075bd.JPG

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