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Another one to identify if possible.

The 1936 DAL for 25.Division confirms the surname as Ziegler but that is the only place I can find it. There are two Ziegler's in 'Die Dienstlaufbahnen der Offiziere des Generalstabes des deutschen Heeres 1935-45 Vol 1 & 2' by Christian Zweng but neither are this particular individual, or at least don't mention 25.Division.

I would have thought that if he was an Oberst in 1936 then he would have made General rank at some point or retired but neither of that is helping. It also isn't future General der Artillerie Heinz Ziegler as he wasn't an Oberst until 1938.

That's great, thanks Dave.

I'm struggling to identify this signature of an Oberstleutnant und Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei in Kiel in 1940. I thought it looked like 'Betzel' but nothing seems to come up with a search for those details.

Could it be Hermann Keuper who would go on to command Polizei-Rgt Nord in 1941?

Hauptmann Dr Heinrich (Heinz) Wolf

Born: 27 Oct 1914
Died: 13 Mar 2011

Highest rank reached: Major (Luftwaffe) / Oberst in Bundeswehr

Kampfgruppe I. K/88 - Legion Condor
II/KG-27
5./KG-27
FFS C 1
II/KG-27
Staffelkapitän 4./KG-27
Luftkriegschule
Stab/Luftflotte 4
Ia in Stab/Luftflotte 4
Generalstab der Luftwaffe
Stab 15.Luftwaffe-Felddivision
Kdr Feld-Ers.Btl.d.Luftflotte 1
Lw.-Verbindungs-Offz. to Pz.AOK 1.
Ic Stab/I.Fl.Korps
Kdr Feld-Ers.Btl.1(L)

DKiG: 17 Aug 1942
Ehrenpokal: 08 Aug 1941

(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Hauptmann Albert Blumensaat

Born: 02 Apr 1902
Died: 31 Mar 1944 - Illness

Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant

Staffelkapitän 10.(N)/JG-131
Staffelkapitän 10.(N)/JG-2
Kdr IV.(NJ)/JG-2
Kdr I/JG-53
Gruppenleiter JFS-2
Kdr Erg.JGr. Nerseburg
Kdr Erg.Gr/JG-77
Kdr III/JG-52
Kommodore der Ergänzungsjagdgruppen
Kdr II/Fliegerverbindungsgeschwader 2
Kdr NJG-102

Credited with 2 victories
 
(Source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberleutnant Wolfrat Bauer

Born: 14 Aug 1918
Died: 04/05 Jan 1943 - KIA

Stab III/NJG-1
Staffelkapitän 7./NJG-1

Credited with 5 victories

Leutnant (MA) Herwig Geber

Born: 14 Mar 1914

Highest rank reached: Oberleutnant (MA)

Batterie-Chef Malo Terminus - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 244
Batterie-Chef Batterie Prinz Heinrich - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 244
Batterie-Chef Batterie Prinz Heinrich - Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 530
Batterie-Chef Küsten-Artillerie Untergruppe 'MIchaelsturm'

Leutnant zur See Gerhard Schwippert

Born: 23 Nov 1919
Died: 03 Aug 1943

Highest rank reached: Oberleutnant zur See

Zerstörer Z-23
1WO U-706

Oberleutnant zur See Wilhelm Ritter von Georg

Born: 05 Jul 1916

Zerstörer Z-23
Kdr Schnellboot S-69
Kdr Schnellboot S-45
Kdr Schnellboot S-48

Oberleutnant zur See Joachim Metzner

Born: 28 Jul 1920

7.Schiffsstammabteilung
Linienschiff Schlesien
Marineschule Mürwik
Hafenabteilung Calais
Marinenachr.Schule Mürwik
Zerstörer Z-4 Richard Beitzen
Zerstörer Z-29
FTB-Lehrgang
AOB-Lehrgang
Torpedoboot T-14
Ausbilder für AOC-Lehrgdnge bei der SchiffsArt.Schule Saßnitz
Torpedoboot T-35

Korvettenkapitän Dietrich Hoffmann

Born: 17 Jun 1912
Died: 02 Jun 2003

Wachoffizier Leichten Kreuzer Emden
Wachoffizier Leichten Kreuzer Leipzig
Referent beim Oberkommando der Marine
1.U-Lehrdivision, Pillau
Kommandanten-Lehrgang 24.U-Flottille, Memel
Kdr U-594
I.Offizier Zerstörer Z-30
Kdr Zerstörer Z-30
 

Kapitän zur See Heinz Peters

Born: 08 Nov 1905
Died: 27 Sept 1992

Zerstörer Z-7 Hermann Schoemann
Zerstörer Z-25
6.Zerstörer-Flottille

DKiG: 06 Aug 1942

Photo taken from Bundesarchiv PERS 6/301735

Major Kurt Rudolf August Breckerbaum

Born: 21 Aug 1896
Died: 03 Jan 1940 (Appendicitis)

Kp.Chef 15./Infanterie-Rgt 15
Kommandantur (St.) Kassel
Gen.Kdo XI.Armeekorps

Leutnant Hans Hultzsch

Born: 15 Jan 1891 - born in Bangalore
Died: 27 May 1967

Highest rank reached: Hauptmann

Wehrbezirkskommando Trier I (Wehrmeldeamt Birkenfeld)
Zugwach-Abteilung zbV 505
Zugwach-Abteilung 509

Dr Eugen Hultzsch (Father of Hans Hultzsch) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Hultzsch

Oberstleutnant Peter-Paul Petersen

Born: 04 May 1893
Died: 20 Apr 1945 - killed during an air raid

Highest rank reached: Generalmajor (possibly posthumous)

Kdr Panzerabwehr-Abt 16
Kdr Panzerjäger-Abt 16
kommandiert zum Stab des Armeenachschubführers 530
kommandiert zum Stab des Kraftwagentransportregiments 605
Höherer Offizier der Kraftfahrparktruppe beim General der Kraftfahrwesens
stellvertretenden Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte als Chef des Heereskraftfahrwesens

(Source: AHF members Dieter Z & Askropp)

Hauptmann Friedrich Stenkhoff

Born: 01 Apr 1900
Died: 03 Apr 1945 - KIA NE Germany

Hihest rank reached: Oberst

Pz.Abw.Abt 40
Kp-Chef 1./Pz.Abw.Abt 16
Kdr Panzerabwehr-Abteilung 169
(Possibly Kdr Pz.Rgt 2) 
Kdr Pz.Rgt 15

He appears to have died in 1974.

Here is the card file from Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/301613) for Gerd von Brauchitsch.

Did this come direct from the family to you without any middlemen? If not then it is highly likely that the actual awards were added to the paperwork to increase the profit for the seller which happens a lot.

Nice little set of paperwork though with the EK citation signed by Dr Friedrich Altrichter who died in a Russia PoW camp in 1948/49. Part of his card file in Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/299316)

For others, here is Thurau's casualty card. Unfortunately, it looks like he is not listed in the Volksbund so his body has never been recovered and is currently not listed or updated in their database.

This is a section of the German situation map for the HG Nord frontline just three days before he died with 58.Infanterie-Division bottom left (courtesy of Lexikon der Wehrmacht).

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Ernst-Günther Wilhelm Karl von Schuckmann

Born: 06 May 1899
Died: 08 Sept 1970

Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant (Regierungsrat 1957)

Adjutant des Wehrbezirks Paderborn
Adjutant des Artillerieersatzregiments 6
Adjutant der Kommandantur von Graudenz
Adjutant der 306. Infanteriedivision
Adjutant des Generalkommandos z.b.V. Mieth
kommandiert zum Stab des LXI. Reservekorps
Adjutant des LXI. Reservekorps
Adjutant des XXXIII. Armeekorps

(Information via AHF thread)

Hauptmann Friedrich-Wilhelm von Wedelstaedt

Born: 14 April 1895
Died: 15 March 1973

Highest rank reached: Oberst

Gruppenleiter I, Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In)
Chef des Stabes Feldzeuginspektion (OKH/AHA/Fz In)

DKiS: 10 Oct 1944

(Information courtesy of Dave Danner in a AHF thread)

One item I was able to tick off the collecting bucket list this year was acquiring a prelim RK citation. I would have been happy for an example to anyone, but to have obtained the citation for a significant General was more than I expected.

The RK & Gold Wound Badge citations are for eventual General der Artillerie Erich Marcks. In 1940 he was tasked with drawing up a draft proposal for what would become Operation Barbarossa and during Op Barbarossa he commanded 101.leichte Infanterie-Division which was part of 17.Armee in Heeresgruppe Süd. On 26th June 1941 he was severely wounded which resulted in him having his left leg amputated.

It was during this period that he was awarded the Knights Cross. It was awarded for the performance of his division during the opening days of Barbarossa, especially the crossing of the San river northeast of Przemysl and the subsequent battle against a Soviet bunker line at Medyka.

During the period of his recovery, he commanded first 337.Infanterie-Division and then LXXXVII.Armeekorps which were both based in France.
On 1st August 1943 he was placed in command of LXXXIV.Armeekorps that was responsible for what would become the D-Day sector.

Marcks was one of the few senior officers who believed that an invasion in Normandy was a possibility and upon the Allies landing ordered a counterattack which ultimately failed.
Here he is in the film The Longest Day, played by the German actor Richard Münch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YnMaNTx30

On 12th June 1944 while touring the front northwest of Saint-Lô, his staff car came under attack from Allied aircraft and Marcks was hit by a 20mm shell. Despite his driver dragging him to a ditch, the injury was too severe and Marcks died of blood loss. He was posthumously awarded the Knights Cross with Oakleaves and now lies buried in the cemetery at Marigny - Block 2, Row 38, Grave 1478.

The following documents and clippings are from his files in the Bundesarchiv (PERS 6/300187 & PERS 6/269)
 

On 23/11/2023 at 10:13, nesredep said:

A great picture Larry. Thank you for helping to keep alive this thread that Martin W started. Sad that we are the only ones who post here while others will harvest information without posting anything themselves. Everyone must remember that this is a of the best Thread together with the thread on the Forum wehrmacht-Awards .com on Mutzenbander in wear
 

cheers, Morten HP.

164,000+ views of this outstanding thread cannot be wrong. 

The Index has now been upated: 

On 17/11/2023 at 23:14, Jock Auld said:

Hucks, more house clearance stuff, the medals were there but way too expensive. When I came back to him someone had bought the medals and left the pictures? Bit odd?

Rich

I'm never surprised what people do and do not collect. I've seen people buy groups of citations, keep the Ostmedaille citation and then sell the remainder and others who buy Soldbücher just to keep the front cover with the photo and sell the coverless Soldbuch.