The Prussian

Thank you! That´s hard... Above is "Zum freundlichen Gedenken" (in friendly remembrance), then it could be "Falkenau" (a small town in Saxony), But unfortunately I can´t read the name. Is it military?

Hello! Please show us the entire page. Another links like numbers and abbreviations could help to find the man more quickly.

Hi Steven! You can show it here. I don´t know, if there is a site with your informations, but we have here a lot of german-speaking people, who can help you.

Add. I found, that he was One-Year-volunteer from 1911-1912 in Inf.Rgt.13. He joined the war as aspirant-officer in Inf.Rgt.57, was wounded twice (but I found him only once as Vizefeldwebel in 1914) June 1916 he was company-leader of 2./57

Hello Kevin! The name was written wrong. It is Kurt Matthaei. He was president of the district Lüneburg since October 1934 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Matthaei

Hello! An interesting photo! He promoted to Leutnant 17.9.06, his first ranklist entry was in 1909 (already with KO4!) Promotions: 17.9.06: Leutnant 28.11.14: Oberleutnant 18.4.16: Hauptmann Ranklists: 1909: 3./Pi.Btl.4 (KO4) 1910: 3./Pi.Btl.4 (KO4, GSF3b) 1911.1912: commanded to Militärtechnische Akademie (Military Technical Academy) Autumn 1912-1913: 2./Pi.Btl.4 Autumn 1913-1914: 4./Pi.Btl.4 Unfortunately I couldn´t find him in the war-history of the bataillon. Probably after his promotion to Oberleutnant he changed the unit...

Hello David! In 1830, Oldenburg had two infantry regiments with to battalions each. Each regiment had a reserve-battailon which had one reserve and one depot-company, One was in Lübeck, the other one in Birkenfeld. Source: "In Wehr und Waffen" (Wehrbürger, Söldner und Soldaten in Oldenburg und den Hansestädten), Peter Galperin, Motorbuch Verlag 1983, ISBN 3-87943-963-X

Unfortunately I couldn´t find infos about his duty in GFuAR2. And I couldn´t find him in the casualty lists. He had a wounded badge.

Hello Claudio! Something about Alfred Galle (FuAR = Foot-Artillerie-Regiment; GFuAR = Garde-Foot-Artillerie-Regiment)): Patent Second Lieutenant: 18.8.95 Patent Premier-Lieutenant: 21.5.06 Appointed to Hauptmann 20.2.12, Patent: 1.10.12 Patent Major: 20.9.18 1896-1897: Sec.Lt. 4./FuAR14 1898: commanded to "Artillerie und Ingenieur-Schule" 1899-1900: 6./FuAR14 Autumn 1900-1902: Adjutant I./FuAR14 1903: 1./FuAR14 1904: commanded to "Artillerie-Werkstatt in Straßburg im Elsaß) 1905: commanded to service at "Luftschiffer-Bataillon" 1906: 3./FUaR14 1907: GFuAR, but commanded to service at "1.Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment" 1908-1910: Leader of Bespannungs-Abteilung (draught horse detachment) of GFaR 1911-1914: 6./GFuAR Ranklist of honour: Major a.D. (retired), died April 15, 1921,

Ah, right. I didn't had time to check it this morning at 4am...

Hi Glenn! Thanks a lot. I didn't check the MWB... Great Job!

Hi! It's a lange hand-written list you can download for free at Invenio. I also can send it to you after work. I'd need your email adress to send it by "we transfer". It's 500MB lange.

Hello! I´ve got a list of the Kriegs-Assistenzärzte (found at "Invenio") until 1918. Unfortunately I´couldn´t find neither a Czerwinski, nor a Rothardt.

Hello! As far as I see, he wears the shoulder board of an "Offizier-Stellvertreter"

Hello Joel! By the way: He also was Leader of 40th Infantry-Brigade (just a couple of days, from August 29, 1914 until around September 1914. He was born August 14, 1862, and he died May 3, 1946. He was commander of IR77 from August 2, 1914 until January 14, 1915. Then he left the active army, became "z.D." (Zur Disposition gestellt, set to disposition) and became commander of Landwehr-Bezirk ("district") Lübeck. Promotion to Oberstleutnant: April 18, 1913 He received the "Charakter" as Oberst (Colonel) April 18, 1915.

Hello Joel! I have the regimental history. Unfortunately there is no photo of him in the book.

Hi all! Roles Baden: https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=13908&klassi=001 Roles Württemberg: https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/suche/findbuecher_mit_digitalisaten.php?archiv=1&klassi=1.12#_1.12 You need the unit and company. Then you can check the roles. Some of them have an index in alphabetical order.

Hello Dave! You forgot the "Trench-mortar-detachment" (see my post from sunday 15:29). I´m not sure if all the scars came from fights in the war... The large one on his left cheek seems to be a dueling scar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_scar

Interesting! Lieutenant March 27, 1917. On March 26, the bataillon started their journey to Macedonia.

Hello Mattyboy! I think so! Werder was leader from 1914-1917 (see above) Your photo shows "Stab der.4.Ersatz-Division" Thanks for pushing the artricle! Since 2013 I received a photo of him too!

Hello! I couldn´ t find an officer in RJB18. I also found two promotions of Thierack. 1) January 27, 1918: Vizefeldwebel to Lt.d.Res. Thierack (from Cologne) 2) April, 29, 1918: Vizefeldwebel to Lt.d.Res. Therack (from Neutomischel) Both don´t fit. According to Wiki he was born in Saxony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Georg_Thierack There is an entry in the casualty lists: Oberjäger (NCO) Thierack in saxon Res.Jg.Btl.13 http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2407768 In that battalion I found him as officer since march 1917: Officer in 1st company (not company-leader): 26.3.17-14.4.17 Trench-mortar detachment: 14.4.17-20.6.17 Adjutant of the regiment: 15.7.17-2.9.17, then sick in hospital Orderly-officer: 18.5.18-5.7.18 Adjutant of the regiment: 5.7.18-12.9.18 Signalling-officer: 16.10.18-10.12.18 Maybe he was 1916 Oberjäger (NCO) and became Lieutenant of reserve in 1917???

You and Andreas are right!

Here we go: G.F.Z. is the name of the regiment. "General-Feldzeugmeister".

Yes. To me it´s Nast.

Yes, I´ve found a Schultz with EKII in the 5.Art.Brig. But in ranklist 1872 he ain´t mentioned. Even not in "Departures". There I only found a "Schulz" (without "t"). And I couldn´t find a Schultz of 5th Art in the EKII list! I think there was a mistake made with the name. Schulz or Schultz is a name like Miller or Smith in english-spoken countries. The are "billions" of them in Germany... From the EKII list: Schultz: Nast: