Dave Danner

As I said, Junker is not in the rolls. I wasn't counting Seebohm among native Schwarzburgers because senior officers in positions like his were not held to the same nationality requirements as recipients of lower classes, who had to be natives of the principalities or commanders of troops in their contingents. Eleven naval officers received the SEK3X from Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Besides Seebohm's SEK1X, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt awarded 9 SEK3X to junior naval officers and 3 SEK4X to Oberdeckoffiziere.

He is not in the rolls from either Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt or Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. With one exception, the only naval officers with the Fürstlich Schwarzburgisches Ehrenkreuz were born in one of the principalities. The exception was Karl Freiherr von der Recke, whose father was Staatsminister in Rudolstadt.

I can't really tell.

Not Max, but Hans. I think I posted the bio on AHF, but I can't find a link. Golden, Hans Ernst *02.11.1895 in Düsseldorf †17.01.1946 in [?] [bestattet in Dürrheim] Vater: Ernst Carl Philipp Adam Thomas Golden, Generalmajor a.D., *05.01.1858 Mutter: Elisabeth (Else) Ottilie, geb. Bender, *01.02.1874, †09.11.1925 Ehefrau: Käthe, geb. Reerink, *12.02.1902, verheiratet den 10.08.1923 2 Töchter (*1925 / *1930) Beförderungen: 07.02.1915 Fähnrich 02.06.1915 Leutnant (Patent vom 19.12.1915 später erhalten) 30.03.1920 Charakter als Oberleutnant a.D. 01.05.1924 Leutnant mit RDA vom 01.04.1918 (5a) 31.07.1925 Oberleutnant mit RDA vom 01.04.1925 (674) 02.03.1929 anderw. RDA vom 01.04.1925 (319a) erhalten 01.02.1932 Hauptmann (13) 01.03.1936 Major (77) 01.06.1939 Oberstleutnant (13) 01.02.1942 Oberst (197) Dienstlaufbahn: 15.08.1914 als Fahnenjunker in das Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 77 eingetreten 30.04.1916 in das Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 73 versetzt 15.01.1917 in das Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 232 versetzt 11.02.1917 mit der Führung der 12. Kompanie des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 232 beliehen 28.09.1917 in das Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 89 versetzt 12.10.1917 Führer der 12. Kompanie des Grenadier-Regiments Nr. 89 (bis 21.03.1918) 10.01.1919 in das Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 77 zurückversetzt 25.03.1919 als Adjutant zum Landwehrbezirk Celle kommandiert (bis 23.09.1919) 30.03.1920 verabschiedet 01.05.1924 in die 6. (Preußische) Kraftfahr-Abteilung wieder angestellt 17.12.1924 in die 6. (Preußische) Sanitäts-Abteilung versetzt 01.10.1925 zu einem Waffenschullehrgang in Dresden kommandiert (bis 15.02.1926) 07.10.1930 zum kraftfahrtechnischen Offizierlehrgang in Berlin kommandiert (bis 13.02.1931) 10.01.1933 zu einem taktisch-technischen Offizierlehrgang beim Kraftfahr-Lehrstabe kommandiert (bis 31.03.1933) 01.03.1933 mit dem 01.04.1933 in die 1. (Preußische) Kraftfahr-Abteilung versetzt 01.10.1934 Chef der 2. Kompanie der Kraftfahr-Abteilung Allenstein (laut Stellenbesetzung) 15.10.1935 in der Panzerabwehr-Abteilung 11 (laut Stellenbesetzung) 20.04.1936 mit dem 01.05.1936 in die Kriegsschule Dresden versetzt 06.10.1936 Lehrer und Aufsichtsoffizier an der Kriegsschule Dresden (laut Stellenbesetzung) 12.10.1937 Lehrer und Aufsichtsoffizier an der Kriegsschule Dresden (laut Stellenbesetzung) 10.11.1938 Kommandeur der Panzerabwehr-Abteilung 5 (laut Stellenbesetzung) 01.10.1940 Kommandeur der Panzerjäger-Abteilung 125 12.06.1941 m.W.v. 29.05.1941 Führerreserve Wehrkreis V 17.01.1942 m.W.v. 05.01.1942 zur Heeres-Kontroll-Inspektion der Deutschen Waffenstillstands-Kommission vers. (Kommandeur der Kontroll-Delegation Mittelmeerküste Wastika) 27.08.1942 m.W.v. 27.07.1942 Führerreserve WKr. V (im Lazarett) 24.08.1943 m.W.v. 07.06.1943 Führerreserve OKH unter gleichzeitiger Kommandierung zum Militär-Befehlshaber in Frankreich 12.11.1943 Führerreserve Wehrkreis V unter Aufhebung seines Kommandos zum Militär-Befehlshaber in Frankreich (im Lazarett) 01.05.1944 Führerreserve OKH unter gleichzeitiger Kommandierung zum Bevollmächtigten Generale der Deutschen Wehrmacht in Italien 01.05.1944 zur Militär-Kommandantur 1006 kommandiert 28.05.1944 zur Leitkommandantur Florenz kommandiert 01.08.1944 Kommandant der Militär-Kommandantur 1003 25.08.1944 Führerreserve OKH (V)

LIR 118 had three mobile battalions and one Ersatz battalion. In October 1918, due to losses, a company from each battalion was dissolved, and the regiment as a whole was dissolved in December 1918. The Ersatz battalion was also dissolved in December 1918, shortly before the regiment as a whole. The Abwicklungsstelle of the active IR 118 supervised the demobilization. It's especially annoying to me when a group of officers from one place are commissioned and sent to a regiment with which they had no prior connection, since it messes with whatever logic we hope to apply when doing our research. I was just going through a group of officers commissioned into IR 75, almost all with a Bremen Kontrollbezirk, who all ended up in Silesian regiments (GR 10, IR 23, FR 38 and IR 62).

It is the award document. A vorläufiges Besitzzeugnis is a "preliminary award certificate". For awards like the Iron Cross, this was sometimes the only document the recipient got, as the sheer number of awards and the exigencies of war made issuing formal certificates less common.

Generalmajor Wolfgang Ziegler https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/Z/ZieglerWolfgang-R.htm

Here is Paul Gerhardt.

Two images of Eugen Voelter, along with a close-up of the ribbon bars. The former shows a Feldspange with Württemberg precedence, the latter from 1938 shows "Reich" precedence. I suppose it's possible he would have changed the bar yet again after the Anschluß to move the ÖM3K ahead of the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer, since it would no longer be a foreign award.

Here's another picture of Gutscher, albeit without the HOH3X. Link to full-size image: http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=1-326697

The Kiel Adressbuch gives his name as Hans Beesel.

It appears to be Emil Otto Friedrich Koehler, *21.7.1884 in Alsleben, †15.5.1966 in Kaiserslautern. He was a Hauptmann (15.8.15) in FußAR 10 and commander of Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 92 from May 1917 to war's end. A char. Major a.D., he was a civilian official in the Reichswehrministerium from 1926-33, an L-Offizier from 1933 to 1935, and then an E-Offizier. He was promoted to Oberst and transferred to the active officer corps on 1.8.1941. He was supposed to retire on age grounds in 1944, but he was considered essential. His last assignment was on 1.1.1945 as Stabsoffizier der Artillerie in the staff of the Festungs-Pionier-Kommandeur XXI.

Herbert Claaßen was awarded his HOH3X on 6.7.1918.

The Major Bauer who received the HOH3X in mid-1917 would appear to be the IR 98 officer. He was promoted to Oberstleutnant on 18.4.1918. His last assignment was command of RIR 236, and his picture in the RIR 236 regimental history appears to show him with the HOH3X buttonhole ribbon. I have no idea what unit he was with in 1917, as he did not come to RIR 236 until some time in 1918. He commanded I./LIR 30 on mobilization and was wounded on 8.12.1914. Bauer, Max Karl Ferdinand Hermann *27.11.1868 in Fraustadt †08.06.1945 in ? (bestattet in Baden Baden)

Meyer, Georg Karl Paul *18.6.1888 in Münchenbernsdorf, Neustadt an der Orla, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach He is not in the 1928 Mitglieder-Verzeichnis of the Offizier-Vereinigung des ehemaligen Magdeburgischen Pionier-Bataillons Nr. 4.

Here is a Militär-Dienstzeitbescheinigung for Bavarian HOH3X recipient Lt.d.L. Karl Bader, later a Luftwaffe Oberstleutnant. No dates, but since he's Bavarian maybe there's a Kriegsrangliste on Ancestry. Luftwaffe files being the mostly worthless messes they are, there's nothing on any World War II service or other decorations, though he would have had at least the WLDA4.

Maj.d.R.a.D. Karl Schönberg, who was awarded the HOH3X on 11.7.1917, is another example of annoying and inconsistent German spelling. He spelled his own name as Schönberg, and his brothers - Oberstleutnant Otto Schönberg and Maj.d.R.a.D. Franz Schönberg - also used that spelling, but Karl's name is "Schoenberg" in Prussian Army sources (Ranglisten, Militärwochenblatt). Schoenberg, Karl Friedrich Otto *7.3.1862 in Langgoslin, Obornik Gutsbesitzer in Wasmerslage, Osterburg 17.10.1883 Sekondelieutenant d.R. des IR 46 15.07.1893 Premierlieutenant d.R. 15.06.1899 Hauptmann d.R. 18.08.1913 der Abschied bewilligt 28.08.1914 Kommandeur des III./RIR 227 (bis 26.12.1915) 24.10.1914 verwundet 27.01.1915 Charakter als Major d.R.a.D. 26.12.1915 zum II. Ersatz-Bataillon des FR 36 11.02.1916 Kommandeur des III./IR 153 04.10.1917 verwundet Known decorations: HOH3X, EK1&2, LD1, EH2bX, VAs A brief description from the RIR 227 Regimentsgeschichte: Photo from the IR 153 Regimentsgeschichte: Photo from the RIR 227 Regimentsgeschichte:

The Napoleonic wars had exposed how weak the numerous small and divided Thuringian states were. There was a desire for greater unity among the Ernestine duchies after 1815, though the rivalries among the actual ruling dukes worked against this goal. Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, formed from two other Ernestine duchies, had been raised to a Grand Duchy in 1815 and established its own Hausorden der Wachsamkeit that year. The other duchies formed a commission a few years later to establish their own common order. Money was probably a factor, but the desire to make a statement of unity was also a stated goal. Not much progress was made until the extinction of the House of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg in 1825, which led to a reorganization of the duchies, brokered by the King of Saxony. It still took a few more years, but the new Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg, who had been Duke of Sachsen-Hildburghausen until 1826, started a renewed pushed for the combined order as a symbol of this goal of unity. It still took a few more years to negotiate the statutes and design the order.

Paul Dietz (1827-1898) married Berta Bayer in 1849. He was ennobled as "Dietz von Bayer" on 17.12.1884. Paul and Berta had three children: Elisabeth (1850-), Konrad (1854-) and Erich (1859-). Elisabeth married Otto Freiherr von Hodenberg (1844-1902) and had 3 children. Erich was childless. Konrad had one son, Friedrich, born in 1887. None of the names I can associate directly with the family - Dietz v. Bayer, Frhr. v. Hodenberg, Iffland (Elisabeth's son-in-law), v. Collas (Friedrich's wife), Boßdorf (Friedrich's son-in-law), and Hartmann (Friedrich's daughter-in-law) - match my LDH and SLH lists. So my best guess is your heir inherited it from someone related through a later maternal line. Erich Dietz von Bayer (*1921) was killed in action in 1945; I have no idea if he had children and whom they would have married. Same for Erika Boßdorf geb. Dietz v. Bayer (1920-1951). It's possible Friedrich had other children after Erika and Erich, but I haven't found them.

Rath's is the top entry. The second obituary is for Franz v. Netzer.

It wouldn't be Dietz von Bayer. Both Konrad and Erich were highly decorated former active officers. Konrad received the SLH2, but neither had a Detmold award.

Another teacher: Hauschild, Hermann Wilhelm Karl *6.11.1885 in Brüssow, Greifswald gef. 4.7.1918 bei Morlancourt Volksschullehrer in Stettin 7.8.1915 Lt.d.R. (Stettin) im Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 7 Führer der 6. Kompanie des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 232 The regimental history of RIR 232 says Hauschild was with that regiment since the beginning of the Serbian campaign in October 1915. I'm not sure how he went from a Pomeranian unit to a Prussian Saxon one (II./RIR 232's parent formation was FR 36), but I suppose this was not uncommon. He received the HOH3X on 31.1.1918.

The Oberleutnant der Reserve Wiedemann in RIR 99 who received the HOH3X on 30.9.1918 should be the officer from IR 136; I./RIR 99 was formed by IR 136 and there were no other infantry Leutnants d.R. in the 1914 Rangliste. Wiedemann, Heinrich Wilhelm *29.11.1881 in Buxtehude, Jork 1.4.1908 Realschuloberlehrer in Wilhelmsburg 1.4.1909 Oberlehrer an der Humboldtschule in Linden 1.4.1912 Realgymn.Oberlehrer in Grunewald 1.4.1923 pensioniert 1.4.1907-1.4.1908 Einjährig-Freiwilliger 27.1.1912 Leutnant der Reserve (Hannover, später III Berlin) des IR 136 3.5.1917 Oberleutnant der Reserve

Another late-war award which I do not believe made it into the Staatsanzeiger or Militär-Wochenblatt: Hauptmann, later Generalmajor, Heinrich-Otto v. Nordheim. Nordheim was from FAR 9 and had been in the field with that regiment and with RFAR 65, but when he received the HOH3X, he was a Hauptmann and Batterie-Führer in FAR 61. This also accounts for the HT, since FAR 61 was Großherzoglich Hessisch. 22.12.1914 1914 Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse 22.08.1916 Ghzgl. Hessisches Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen "Für Tapferkeit" 27.01.1917 1914 Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse 09.08.1918 Verwundetenabzeichen in schwarz 13.10.1918 Kgl. Preußischer Hausorden von Hohenzollern, Ritterkreuz mit Schwertern 18.01.1935 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer 02.10.1936 Wehrmacht (Heer) Dienstauszeichnung 4. bis 3. Klasse 01.10.1939 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuze 2. Klasse 25.11.1939 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuze 1. Klasse 16.12.1942 Krimschild Since he received the Krimschild, there's a chance he also received a Romanian decoration, but non-German decorations are not typically listed in WW2 Personalakten/Beurteilungen and I have not come across his name yet in Romania's Monitorul Oficial. And we get a picture and signature to boot.

Matthias Josef Timmermann was born on 20.7.1887 in either Kettenis or Hauset, hamlets in the Eupen region (now in Belgium). He was "leicht verwundet" in 1915 and "schwer verwundet" in 1916, both with IR 25, and "schwer verwundet" in 1918 with IR 84. He was a Volksschullehrer in Stolberg. According to his gravestone in Aachen, Wimmar Hennes lived from 1892 to 1981. An IR 25 casualty list gives his birthplace as Cöln-Kalk. The Aachen address books give his occupation as Handelsvertreter. The gravestone and all the address books give the spelling as Wimmar; only the casualty list has Wimmer.