webr55

Daniel, I am sorry but I have to say this: we cannot go on for another 10 or 15 years. We have put a lot of effort into this, and there is so much new information we have found, it has to go out and should not be withheld from the public. We now find only very few new cases per year, rather like 5-10, at maximum. That would take us another 5-10 years, at least. And we don't even know if that total number you mention is anywhere near correct. Again, sorry, but someone has to bring this up. Chris

Dr. Friedrich Speich died in 1933: Ferdinand Leonhardi died as OTL aD in 1937: Mindener Zeitung, 14.4.1937

Ah that one - I came across him several times. An impostor.

Definitely an Adler der Inhaber.

Julius Schönian died as Oberst aD in 1942. Lippische Staatszeitung, 10.12.1942

Höver was from Detmold, but I couldn't find his first name. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 26.7.18 This might be a new one: Wilhelm Krehmke from IR 131, died in 1923. He is in VL as Lt, from Spandau. Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 17.4.23

We had Hptm Willi Halbach here already. The other Halbach was Lt dR Hermann Halbach from Lage, KIA shortly before the armistice: Lippische Landes-Zeitung, 25.10.1918

We had him already, but some new info: Werner Calov, born 28.03.1880, was from Pioniere. (Hemersche Zeitung, 26.4.1917) He made Polizei-Oberst around 1930: http://recherche.landesarchiv.sachsen-anhalt.de/Query/detail.aspx?ID=93459

... and Flach died in 1939: Hasper Zeitung, 8.12.1939

Eversbusch is Fritz, from Haspe Hasper Zeitung, 23.11.1917 The LtdR Flach who got the HHOX in October is Edwin Flach from Haspe, as I understand he was from RIR 202. Hasper Zeitung, 5.10.1918

Mejo again confirmed with HHOX: Essener Allgemeine Zeitung, 8.7.1927 Fehrenberg is Leo, from Essen: Essener Allgemeine Zeitung, 6.7.1918

This will probably be the most promising focus for the last meters of our project to find missing HHOX awardees: career officers who got the HHOX in October or November 1918, not listed in Staatsanzeiger or MWB, and probably, at least in a number of cases, not even mentioned in newspapers, for various reasons. Some newspapers just stopped reporting awards, for example. And we have to be clear: the list will never be fully complete, some just will not be found. The project has to be finalized at some point, though. Westerberg is Fritz, from Essen. General-Anzeiger für Essen und Umgegend, 22.8.1918 "Krägelow" is Franz Krägeloh from Essen. General-Anzeiger für Essen und Umgegend, 21.9.1918

Very interesting! I don't think we had him yet!

I wonder if we are missing more last-minute Bavarian ones...

That looks very interesting! We have an Olt dR Arthur Ungewitter (born 1895) so far, but no Max. Can you read the HHOX award date? Ungewitter was promoted Lw Oberst in 1942/43, but the Luftwaffe sources that I have do not mention his HHOX.

First name: Lt dR Joseph Ebert Hünfelder Kreisblatt, 21.5.1918

No first name, but one of the Hauptmann Pieper must be from a Westphalian IR: Münstersche Zeitung, 9.6.1918 Carl/Karl Hockelmann died in 1939. Münstersche Zeitung, 11.9.1939

Another mystery: 17-year-old, freshly promoted Lt Hellmuth Bunn. Can't find anything about him. Münstersche Zeitung, 8.12.1917

Coers is Walter, from Lünen. Lüner Zeitung, 23.9.1918

Not sure what this is: Lt dR Bernhard Stoffers, got a "Ritterkreuz der Hohenzollern". Not in our list. Gelsenkirchener Zeitung, 18.2.1918

We had Joseph Müller here before, but here is some more info: He was a Lt dR from Gardepioniere. Gelsenkirchener Zeitung, 31.10.1918

Olt Klems was from Gladbeck, no first name provided though. Gelsenkirchener Zeitung, 6.6.1918

New first name: OTL Otto Meißner, born 1873 in Bremen. Originally in FAR 7, later Cdr of FAR 59. Gelsenkirchener Allgemeine Zeitung, 1.6.1935

New first name (last name a bit hard to read): Lt dR August Nocke from Hochlarmark. Acc. to VL born 19.10.XX in Eickel. Gelsenkirchener Allgemeine Zeitung, 22.5.1918 This must be an error: Offz-Stellv. Robert Heibert certainly had the Golden MMC, but he cannot have had an HHOX. Gelsenkirchener Allgemeine Zeitung, 2.8.1918

First name: Lt Mathias Geenen Geldern'sche Zeitung, 1.3.1918 According to VL, born 13.4.1887 in Weeze. New first name, a very late one, but his last name was in the list already: Olt Hubert Klümpen from Kevelaer Geldern'sche Zeitung, 6.11.1918