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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.

Photo input from Dave Danner

In this French notice it mentions the death of a Captain Charles Trott who died in a French PoW camp in Verdun on 8th February 1806. He was from Woodbridge in Suffolk but the period French notice mentions that he was a Captain in the 'Scottish Marching Battalion' (unless it has been mistranslated). Any idea what unit that could be and where his service records might reside?

Hauptmann Alfred Bischkowski

Born: 17 Jan 1915

Stab/KG 53
Staffelkapitän 10./KG 53
Staffelkapitän 9./KG 53
Staffelkapitän 8./KG 4

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

Oberleutnant Franz-Josef Maubach

Highest rank reached: Hauptmann

A/Flieger-Ausbildungs-Rgt 62
Staffelkapitän 11./KG 53
Staffelkapitän 13./KG 53
Staffelkapitän 4./KG 53

DKiG: 19 May 1943
Ehrenpokal: 07 Oct 1941

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

Oberleutnant Emil Allmendinger

Born: 18 Feb 1913

Highest rank reached: Major

I/KG 53
Staffelkapitän 1./KG 53
Lehrgangsleiter Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald
Chef 1.Kp Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald
Flugleiter I/Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald
Ausbildungs Gr.Leiter FFS C 15
Kdr III/KG 53
Kdt Platzkommando Eggebek / Fliegerhorst Kdtr A9o) 3/XI

DKiG: 14 Feb 1942

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

Major Alarich Hofmann

Born: 28 June 1903
Died: 27/28 Dec 1942 - MIA in Murmansk area

Highest rank reached: Oberst (Posthumous)

Staffelkapitän 3./KG 53
Ia Stab/IV Fliegerkorps
Chef d.Stabes IV Fliegerkorps
Kdr I/KG 30

DKiG: 09 April 1942

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

Oberstleutnant Paul Weitkus

Born: 17 Oct 1898
Died: 09 Nov 1974

Highest rank reached: Generalmajor

Kdr II/KG 252
Kdt Fliegerhorst Liegnitz
Staffelkapitän 3./KG 26
Kommodore KG 53
Kdr Kampfbeobachtervorschule 1
Kdr He-111-Verbände zur Versorgung im Osten
Kdr I.Rumänischen Fliegerkorps
Fliegerführer Albanien
Fliegerverbindungs-Offz to Heeresgruppe E
Kdr Luftflottentruppen/Luftflotte 4
Kdr 18.Fliegerdivision

RK: 18 Sept 1941

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

Some nice examples. Wehrmacht wedding photo portraits make an interesting collecting field.

Is he a General (not that it narrows things down)?

Hauptmann Gerrit Wiegmink

Born: 30 July 1909
Died: 24 March 1944 - shot down Sønder-Tranders (Denmark)

Highest rank reached: Major

Stab/Küstenfliegergruppe 706
Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 (attached to the battlecruiser Scharnhorst 1940)
Gruppenkommandeur Bordfliegergruppe 196

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

General der Infanterie Briesen, Kurt Alfred Otto Erimar von

Born: 03 May 1883
Died: KIA 20 November 1941

Kdr 30.Infanterie-Division
Kdr LII.Armeekorps

RK: 27 October 1939

(Stamped signature)

Major Hermann Lessing

Born: 20 October 1900
Died: 29 May 1990

Highest rank reached: Oberst / Kapitän zur See

Transferred from Kriegsmarine to Luftwaffe in 1937
Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Scharnhorst
Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706
Lufttransportführer (See)
Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 906
Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706
Verbindungsoffizier OKL to OKM/Skl
XIII. Fliegerkorps Kommandeur Navigationschule Strausberg
Possible Seeaufklärungsgruppe 130
Transferred from Luftwaffe to Kriegsmarine
Kommandierender Admiral der Unterseeboote
Kommandeur U-1231

Ehrenpokal: 26 October 1942

Oberleutnant Otto Hunnius

Born: 08 December 1915
Died: MIA 11/12 May 1943 - reported MIA during a sortie to mine the Thames & Humber estuaries

Highest rank reached: Hauptmann

1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Gneisenau
Führer der Seeluftstreitkräfte West
3.(M)/Küstenfliegergruppe 806
1./LG 1
Staffelkapitän 11./KG 6
Staffelkapitän 7./KG 6