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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

The Wittener Volks-Zeitung, 15.7.1937, lists major German WW1 decorations, their award numbers and statistics, and some of the benefits that the recipients received. Of course this was taken from other sources, and known already here, might still be interesting to show: According to these numbers, the HHOX was awarded 8,291 times, so every 40th officer got one. 850 recommendations were still unprocessed by the end of the war. So while the awards of both classes of the Iron Cross continued until 31.5.1924 (with 55,000 1st class and 196,000 2nd class awarded in postwar time), the HHOX was not awarded anymore. (Actually, in this thread, we have seen some cases which may have been exceptions, but even if these are true, they were extremely rare.)

Additional confirmation: Hellmich is Philipp, from IR 19, Lehrer. Wittener Volks-Zeitung, 18.9.1918

We have them both already, but this was an interesting article in the Wittener Tageblatt, 13.8.1934, about award recipients from Witten, which mentions the only two HHOX recipients from the town: Erich Landzettel and (Heinrich) Krumme.

This is the award notice for Hugo Urban, we had him before, died in 1932. Wittener Tageblatt, 27.9.1918

The notice in the Westfälischer Merkur was from Feb 1918, and the other one mentioned (Mettlich) got his HHOX just a few months, rather weeks, before. For Müller, I would think this notice cannot be about an award received more than a year ago. The Lt dL Raven from IR 16 in our list was August Raven, Lehrer. We had him before in this thread as "August Rawen-Bochum", at that time it was not fully clear that this is him. Wittener Tageblatt, 31.7.1917

Here is another Müller, Albert Müller from Ostrach, student of mathematics at the Univ. of Münster. Maybe he is the Lt who got the HHOX in January 1918. Westfälischer Merkur, 15.2.1918 The flyer Lt Hagemann is Bernhard, from Münster. Westfälischer Merkur, 18.7.1918

All the information I have is in the post above, I don't have any more.

Lt dR Pense from GR 12 got later a Schlageterschild. I couldn't find his first name though. Westfälische Landeszeitung Hagen, 23.3.1934 Adam Kaus, Hptm dR, died as Major and Kdr of a Luftwaffenbaubataillon in 1941. Westfälische Landeszeitung Castrop-Rauxel, 26.11.1941 This is an interesting case, since no Luftwaffe connection was recognizable so far, at least not for me. Do we know anything more about his other awards?

Krüger from FAR 43 was Martin, here is his death notice from 1941 (good that they included his regiment!): Westfälische Landeszeitung Castrop-Rauxel, 14.5.1941 More on August Böger: he made Oberpostinspektor and died in 1937: Westfälische Landeszeitung Gross-Dortmund, 1.4.1937

In the VL, there are several mentions of a Lt dR Paul Rosenbaum, born 13.4.1895 in Aachen. At one point (1919), he was in IR 57, heavily wounded. Not sure if this might be the one.

Lt Paul Rosenbaum from Essen. Might be the one from PB 4, otherwise from IR 13. Essener Volkszeitung, 24.7.1918