Dave Danner
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Hi Dave chanced upon this and doing a little search found that you were and might still be interested in him... Read the name on the back, please.
GreyC
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Hi, Thanks for that.
Now I have to reevaluate all the Theophiles. The FR 90 Stammliste listed its Theophile as Friedrich, but that looks like a "90" on the shoulder boards. Also, the 1915 Frankfurt Adressbuch lists an architect in Isenburg as "Max", and the 1911 rank list of reserve and Landwehr officers says the FR 90 officer was an architect in Isenburg. So the Stammliste got it wrong. He received the MMV1 as well as the MMV2.
Dave
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Mr Danner. I was interested in the printing of the Schwarzburg rolls and when they might be available. I apologize if that already took place and I missed it. I appreciate all your efforts in this regard.
Joe Miller
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Hi Dave,
I was reading an article on this site, "Jewish Officers in The German Army of WW1."
http://gmic.co.uk/topic/17642-jewish-officers-in-the-german-army-of-ww1/
am tracing a story that I recently heard from my brother-in-law that his grandfather, Leo Kahn (1893-1940), received the Iron Cross while serving for Germany in WWI. Unfortunately that is about all I know at the moment. He is from Kirf, in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, according to Wikipedia. Do you have other info about a Leo Kahn being awarded the Iron Cross?
Thanks,
Steve Snyder
Reston, Virginia, USA
cat2steve@yahoo.com
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Hi
I don't know if there is any way to confirm an Iron Cross. They stopped publishing the awards fairly early in the war. The American Jewish Congress and other organizations sometimes published lists early on, based on different sources, but by the time the US entered the war against the Central Powers, they had stopped.
I can say that a Leo Kahn, born 23 March in Kirf, Saarburg, was wounded in action in 1918. I assume that he is the same man, but birth years were not given in 1918 casualty lists. Nor were units, presumably for security reasons. You can seach the German WW1 casualty lists here: http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search/index
There are several other Kahn's from Kirf there, so perhaps your brother-in-law can find out about some more relatives.
Best regards,
Dave
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