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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

Wilhelm Mejo, born 1896 in Kray, died in a crash in 1929. He was in Kagohl/Bogohl 4. Not in our lists so far. Linden-Dahlhauser Tageblatt, 21.5.1929

Lt Berghaus is Bruno: Linden-Dahlhauser Tageblatt, 8.3.1918

Max Krappe died in 1943 as Oberst aD. Bad Oeynhausener Anzeiger und Tageblatt, 20.3.1943

Just looking at the text, I would take "nicht abzulegen" to mean you could indeed WEAR both of them. In the sense of "you can keep them both on your bar, you don't have to take them off it".

Wilhelm II and the Crown Prince got the Royal Victorian Chain, quite special.

Originally posted in Imperial, but maybe this is the more appropriate place here: This picture was sold to me as showing a Lt dR Beitz (left) - but I was more interested in Mr Monocle (right): Am I totally wrong or is this a photo of the later GFM Model as Oberst, taken between 1934 and 1938? Also, this would be one of the very few pictures I have seen that show Model wearing a ribbon bar. I see some small problems however with this being Model: - his wound badge seems to be black, but Model had the white one. - the ribbon bar looks slightly different, I don't see a HHOX for example, but with the light it is hard to tell. But if this is not Model, then it must be a (quite lookalike) Oberst between 1935 and 1939 (certainly future general) with a wound badge, monocle and exactly that number of awards (including WM LS awards).

I see some problems with this being Model: - his wound badge seems to be black, but Model had the white one. - the ribbon bar looks slightly different, I don't see a HHOX for example, but with the light it is hard to tell. If not Model, then it must be a (quite lookalike) Oberst between 1935 and 1939 (certainly future general) with a wound badge, monocle and exactly that number of awards (including WM LS awards).

This picture was sold to me as showing a Lt dR Beitz (left) - but I was more interested in Mr Monocle (right): Am I totally wrong or is this a photo of the later GFM Model as Oberst, taken between 1934 and 1938? Also, this would be one of the very few pictures I have seen that show Model wearing a ribbon bar.

Hptm Lipschitz should be the one from FAR 69, but I don't have his first name.

Another Schulz: Lt dR Walter Schulz, Lehrer in Radevormwald Lenneper Kreisblatt, 19.3.1918

First name: Peter Buchholz from Lüdorf. He must be the Lt dR from FußAB 54. Lenneper Kreisblatt, 22.4.1918 Died from the Spanish flu in 1918: Lenneper Kreisblatt, 19.11.1918

More about Adolf Schulte (including his other awards), Amtsgerichtsrat in civil life, born 1874 in Günne. Zeno Zeitung/Halterner Zeitung, 2.10.1935

Strange: Lt dR Hans Koebke - cannot find him in our list, nor in VL. Or is that an HHOX without swords? Minden-Lübbecker Kreisblatt, 6.9.1917 Just a question of first name: Heinrich Henrici, not Hermann. Minden-Lübbecker Kreisblatt, 26.6.1918

The Pionier-Olt dR Dammann was "Königlicher Katasterlandmesser" from Berleburg. I couldn't find his first name. Wittgensteiner Kreisblatt. 24.7.1918