Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 Just recieved these.....The EK 2 doc is a rough one... but superb. You can see it has a place to cross out some words... this means it can be used to make awards to active members of the schutztruppe, or to the ex soldiers who were living in GSWA and were pulled in to serve.
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Author Posted September 1, 2006 His EK1 doc.I was really suprised at the price it went for, it is not only an EK1 doc but to a "Freiherr von..." commander of a Aufkl?rungs unit on the South African border, deeply involved with the Boer Rebels and who actually crossed the border into South Africa with a group of rebels!!!
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Author Posted September 1, 2006 Released from captivity be made his way back to Germany to join the Freikorps...
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Author Posted September 1, 2006 Was a Major a.D. in the 30;s
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Author Posted September 1, 2006 And a few letters about his pilots ausweis earned in 1912.
Leutwein Posted September 1, 2006 Posted September 1, 2006 Fantastic and rare GroupCongratulation.All the bestLeutwein
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 1, 2006 Author Posted September 1, 2006 I just managed to get his wound badge doc, issued in 1936.am not sure if this was for GSWA or Freikorps as some are awarded for Freikorps actions as well.
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 2, 2006 Author Posted September 2, 2006 Hmmmm not the circle jerk of awe I was hoping for :-(
Gerd Becker Posted September 2, 2006 Posted September 2, 2006 So he was a Reconnaissance PILOT in SWA??? Great docs, Chris
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 2, 2006 Author Posted September 2, 2006 So he was a Reconnaissance PILOT in SWA??? Great docs, Chris Hi,nope, a mounted abteilung.I dream of finding a Foto of him.....
Guest Rick Research Posted September 2, 2006 Posted September 2, 2006 Perhaps more exciting had we known these were YOURS and NOT eBay pix from some split up group...am fully brain-occupied with WW1 rolls and miss 'sibtleties.""Lookee what I GOT" would have clarified things.I find nothing on him. MIGHT have his parents from the Heldengedenkmappe but can't be sure he WAS the "Hauptmann Fritz im Felde" listed as a surviving brother. Might have been a cousn.
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 3, 2006 Author Posted September 3, 2006 Perhaps more exciting had we known these were YOURS and NOT eBay pix from some split up group...am fully brain-occupied with WW1 rolls and miss 'sibtleties.""Lookee what I GOT" would have clarified things.I find nothing on him. MIGHT have his parents from the Heldengedenkmappe but can't be sure he WAS the "Hauptmann Fritz im Felde" listed as a surviving brother. Might have been a cousn.Hi,His name was indeed Friedrich.There are a few papers in the group from what I assume is his Brother, PLM winner Heinrich von Hadeln.On the web I found a reference to "Von hadeln, Himmlers adjutant"PLM von hadeln died 1940, Friedrich in 48 or so.
Daniel Murphy Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) Hmmmm not the circle jerk of awe I was hoping for :-(Chris, Sorry I did not post earlier. I just kind of went and forgot what I was doing. That is a fantastic one of a kind group. Dan Edited September 3, 2006 by Daniel Murphy
Glenn J Posted September 3, 2006 Posted September 3, 2006 Chris,Fritz Werner Oskar Johannes Freiherr von Hadeln born 14 May 1885 was indeed the youngest brother of PLM winner Heinrich Freiherr von Hadeln. If my memory serves me right an SS-Sturmbannf?hrer Freiherr von Hadeln was KIA in 1943 as a battalion commander in the Westland Regiment of the Wiking Division.RegardsGlenn
Guest Brian von Etzel Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 Chris, definitely deserves some awe. Nice to see all these together. And what a group. Wow.
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 And to close off.... his wound badge.I am still having trouble seeing why he was "Conditionally released" during the war when the rest of the germans were kept in POW camps... maybe because of this wound?
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 Chris,Fritz Werner Oskar Johannes Freiherr von Hadeln born 14 May 1885 was indeed the youngest brother of PLM winner Heinrich Freiherr von Hadeln. If my memory serves me right an SS-Sturmbannf?hrer Freiherr von Hadeln was KIA in 1943 as a battalion commander in the Westland Regiment of the Wiking Division.RegardsGlennHi,A vague google search shows a Von hadeln as hitlers adjutant, probably a son of one of them.In the group of extra papers I got with this group is the last will of Heinrich, the PLM winner, written and signed a few months before his death in 1940.
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 Without gloating, the whole group cost about EUR550. I am very, very, very, very pleased with it.
Glenn J Posted September 6, 2006 Posted September 6, 2006 Chris,a couple of more snippets for you:1. From the Milit?r-Wochenblatt showing Frhr. v. Hadeln's return to the Prussian Army and entry in the 4. Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment.RegardsGlenn
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 Hi Glenn,thanks, that adds to the dokument in post 3.bestChris
Glenn J Posted September 6, 2006 Posted September 6, 2006 And although published officially a few days later, a further entry showing his leaving Sch?tztruppe service on the 10th of January 1919.Glenn
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 Here is a point that may make the first doc unique.... I had not noticed it before (DUH !!!!!)It is signed and awarded in Berlin in May 1918...................why is that soooooooooooo unusual...... any ideas ?????????????????????????????????????
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 Here is a point that may make the first doc unique.... I had not noticed it before (DUH !!!!!)It is signed and awarded in Berlin in May 1918...................why is that soooooooooooo unusual...... any ideas ?????????????????????????????????????I have never seen this kind of doc before, most of the EK2s are on the decorative version like von hadelns EK1.Here is a hint to the above question....... Von Hadeln may well have been the first Schutztruppe EK2 awarded.... or at least the earliest by many months !!!!
Leutwein Posted September 6, 2006 Posted September 6, 2006 Hello Chris Boonzaier,in the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class were the earliest awarded on the 01.12.1914 Some of them who get the Iron Cross 2nd class on this day were Bezirksamtmann Dr.vet Wilhelm von Vietsch or Stabsarzt Dr. med. Felix Meyer.A lot of Southwest-veterans get their award on the 28.04.1918. On the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class Oblt. von Hadeln get his award on the 28.04.1918 too.All the best Leutwein
Chris Boonzaier Posted September 6, 2006 Author Posted September 6, 2006 A lot of Southwest-veterans get their award on the 28.04.1918. On the name list of recipients of the Iron Cross 2nd class Oblt. von Hadeln get his award on the 28.04.1918 too.All the best LeutweinHmmm... then my theory shot to hell....They were mostly all still captive in South Africa/South west Africa at this time, the war still had a ways to go.... The award was made in Germany.How on earth did they get that together?? The Schutztruppen were captured en masse....
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