House Order of Hohenzollern - info needed

[webr55]

First name: W. Paepenmöller from Bielefeld. Wilhelm according to Adressbücher Bielefeld (Lehrer, later Rektor)

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 15.8.1917

 

 

[Dave Danner]

Decker was an Oberleutnant der Reserve (Marburg) in Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 9 at war's begin. He was Direktor of the Reichsbanknebenstelle in Marburg. He also had the LD2.

 

Wilhelm Heinrich Paepenmöller from IR 173 was born on 25.10.1887. He was in Volksschuldienst from 1.10.1911 on and was still there in the 1940s, so he should have had the Treuedienst-Ehrenzeichen.

[webr55]

The LtdR Lange from RIR 37 is Heinrich, Lehrer in Bielefeld. Notice in Westfälische Zeitung, 22.8.1917.

 

First name both in Adressbücher Bielefeld as well as Verlustlisten from RIR37.

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by webr55

[webr55]

The OTL v. Wangenheim without first name is Ernst, KIA 1917, Kdr IR 55.

 

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 27.11. and 5.12.1917

 

 

[webr55]

First name: Lt Arthur Bauer from IR 92, KIA 1917

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 11.12.1917

 

 

Major Arnold Kißler, so far listed as Wilhelm in our list.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 27.3.1917

 

[Dave Danner]

His full name was Karl Johann Wilhelm Arnold Kißler, born on 7. November 1891 in Löhne.

[webr55]

First name: Lt dR W. Pankoke, Wilhelm as per Verlustlisten:

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 8.1.1918

 

 

[webr55]

We had his death notice here already, but here is his award notice: Lt dR Fritz Eversmeyer from Bielefeld. Should be the one from RIR 53.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 6.2.1918

 

 

Edited November 20, 2021 by webr55

[webr55]

First name: Lt dR Hans Schwarz from Bielefeld, should be the one from RIR 53. 

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 17.5.1918

 

 

[webr55]

Somehow, I don't find him in our list: Lt dR Artur Göricke, after the war Generaldirektor of Göricke Bicycles in Bielefeld (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göricke). 

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 21.5.1918

 

 

[Dave Danner]

Arthur Göricke was a Lt.d.L. I, previously a Kraftfahrer in the Kaiserliches Kraftfahrkorps. He received the Anhaltisches Friedrichkreuz in 1916 as a Kraftfahrer with the Generalkommando des Gardekorps, and the Fürstlich Hohenzollernsches Ehrenkreuz 3. Klasse mit Schwertern, not the HOH3X, on 8.5.1918 as a Lt.d.L. in the Inspektion der Kraftfahrtruppen.

[webr55]

Ah ok - another Princely made to seem like a Royal one...

 

First name: Lt dR Karl Schürmann from Bielefeld.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 6.7.1918

 

 

[Daniel Krause]

great stuff!

Its Schuermann in the list.

 

a bit of statistic;

We have already first names for about 75 percent of the guys,

59 percent birth years,

42 percent death years.

 

Best,

Daniel

[webr55]

First name: Lt Gustav Wehmeier. Since he was Bataillons-Adjutant, he should be from infantry, if I am not mistaken. So he would be the one from RIR 56.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 7.11.1918

 

 

[Dave Danner]

The Fußartillerie and Pioniere also had battalions, but in this case, assuming there isn't yet another Wehmeier, I think you are right that he is the RIR 56 Lt.d.R.

 

The Lt.d.R. Wehmeier in FAR 58 was:

 

Wehmeier, Hans, *7.2.1889 in Minden in Westfalen; Gerichtsassessor, 3.1.1921 Dr.jur. et rer.pol. (Greifswald), 1930s Ger.Assess.a.D. and Rechtsanwalt in Dortmund; killed in action on 10.9.1941 during the siege of the fortresses around Leningrad as a Major d.R. and commander of I./AR 76, posthumously promoted to Oberstleutnant d.R.

[webr55]

On 20/11/2021 at 14:06, webr55 said:

First name: Lt dR Hans Schwarz from Bielefeld, should be the one from RIR 53. 

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 17.5.1918

 

 

KIA 1918:

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 25.10.1919

[Mattyboy]

A new first name, and a photo - Bruno Kroschewski :- 

 

http://www.homepage-andreas-meininger.de/Familien_Chronik_Kroschewski_Kroczewski_Kroschewsky_1342-2012_von_Guenter_Krome.pdf 

[webr55]

Another first name: Major dL aD Gustav Seydel, died 1926.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 11.12.1926

 

 

[Dave Danner]

Karl Gustav Seydel was born on 16.8.1867 in Oberwüstegiersdorf, Waldenburg, and died on 10.12.1926 in Minden i.W. He was a Steuerrat with the Katasterverwaltung in Minden, and a Hauptmann der Reserve of Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 2. He also had the LD1.

[Mattyboy]

First name for Oblt v Rauchfuß is Hans, from IR 84. The other man (Kurt from IR 31) was promoted to Hauptmann already in 1915. Hans later became an observer and served in Flieger-Abt A 258. 

[webr55]

On 19/11/2021 at 09:27, webr55 said:

The LtdR Lange from RIR 37 is Heinrich, Lehrer in Bielefeld. Notice in Westfälische Zeitung, 22.8.1917.

 

First name both in Adressbücher Bielefeld as well as Verlustlisten from RIR37.

 

Died in 1931.

 

Westfälische Zeitung, 14.2.1931

 

By the way, do we have first names for the two LtdR Lange from RIR 39 and 75?

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2021 by webr55

[webr55]

As per Verlustlisten, Lt dR Fix from IR 79 should be Karl.

 

 

[webr55]

 

The Dr. Walter Bürger is the future Reichsbahnpräsident (1877-1967), who also got the RK KVK in 1944.

[webr55]

Death notice for Dr. Adolf Buttermann (1877-1962) https://www.doolia.de/anzeigen/detail.php?A=50670544fe8d5fe2eab4.1962#dr._med._adolf_buttermann

 

Years for Dr. Felix Eberhard Buttersack (1865-1950):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Buttersack

[webr55]

Dr. Heinrich Claus - what a life: Doctor in China, WW1 in Africa, Russia, Turkey, the Kaiser's private doctor in the 1930s, and still alive at 100 (in 1977). Not sure when he died exactly:

 

https://www.heimatfreundebali.de/heilbad/ärzte/dr-claus/