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    Axel Thortsen was born in Oldenburg in 1877: https://tpsalomonreinach.mom.fr/Reinach/MOM_TP_071825/MOM_TP_071825_0002/PDF/MOM_TP_071825_0002.pdf

    Became Regierungsrat. He is found in the Adressbuch Berlin 1941 (but not later) as Regierungsrat and Major aD. 

     

     

    Paul Adolf Thränhardt, 1875-1943

    Karl Theodor Johannes Utpatel, 1896-1983 (in Wüsten)

    Wilhelm Adolf ERICH Freiherr Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen, 1884-1963 (in Rietheim)

    (all from geneal. data)

     

     

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    The Major von Tresckow who got the HHOX in 1917 should be either:

     

    Hans, from IR 92, born 16.7.?? in Friedland (if it is him, his award should be listed in the regimental history of IR 92)

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    Otto, from RIR 118, originally IR 118, OTL aD after WW1

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    Wilhelm, born 19.8.1875 in Schmarfendorf, died (KIA?) 1917. He was still Hauptmann in May 1917, so might have got a last promotion and the HHOX, but I cannot tell.

     

     

     

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    15 hours ago, webr55 said:

    The Major von Tresckow who got the HHOX in 1917 should be either:

     

    Hans, from IR 92, born 16.7.?? in Friedland

    or

    Otto, from RIR 118

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    Wilhelm, born 19.8.1875 in Schmarfendorf, died (KIA?) 1917. He was still Hauptmann in May 1917, so might have got a last promotion and the HHOX, but I cannot tell.

    It is Hans. Born 16.7.1870 in Friedland in Ostpreußen. Kdr. I./IR 92 and Kdr. IR 396.

     

    Otto was wounded in 1914 as Kdr. I./RIR 118 and went to the Ers.Btl. of RIR 80 in 1915. On 2.11.1915 he was placed z.D. and named Bezirksoffizier of Landwehrbezirk Montjoie.

     

    Wilhelm died as a Hauptmann.

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    Fritz Tschunke, born 1883, was involved in the German-Soviet cooperation during the 1920s/30s:

    https://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/0000/adr/adrsz/kap1_2/para2_114.html

    (this is about his brother, but Fritz is mentioned there as well: https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/T/TschunkeErich-R.htm)

     

    Couldn't find his death date though. 

     

     

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    4 hours ago, webr55 said:

    Typke is most probably Gerhard, KIA in 1918.

     

    Gerhard Typke was an active Leutnant in IR 76.

     

    The HOH3X-Träger was a Lt.d.R. in IR 389. He is probably the 24.12.14 Lt.d.R. (Bielefeld) in IR 15, as the only other Lt.d.R. I have found was a Feldartillerie officer.

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    Probably. I had looked through the Typke family tree on Ancestry for people the right age and had seen him, but until you posted that notice, I hadn't seen any connection to Bielefeld. The family appears to be fairly bourgeois, so they may have an entry in one of the editions of the DGB. Those sometimes list military service and awards.

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    This first name was a tricky one: Lt dR (PB 328) August Böger from Lütgendortmund. The notice in Dortmunder Zeitung, 20.8.1918, makes him Oberpostassistent "Vöger" in Lütgendortmund, though without first name. But the address book Dortmund 1925/26 lists him with full name in Lütgendortmund, as Postassessor. 

     

    böger1.jpg

     

     

    böger.jpg

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    Some missing data on admirals:

    Max Bastian (1883-1958), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bastian

    Wilhelm Prentzel (1878-1945), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Prentzel

    Ludwig v. Reuter (1869-1943), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Reuter

     

     

     

    Otto Freiherr von Ellrichshausen, 1874-1937, https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/ACEGG7TYW2QVRQMINUYGHVXKQJZRDK4M (with a picture with his SA3b)

     

     

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    On 16/12/2021 at 16:28, webr55 said:

    Some missing data on admirals:

    Max Bastian (1883-1958), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bastian

     

     

     

    Here is what I have on Bastian:

     

    Eisernes Kreuz (1914), II. und I. Klasse

    Ritterkreuz des Königlichen Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern

    Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz

    Hanseatenkreuz

    Hamburg

    Bremen

    Lübeck

    Großherzoglich Mecklenburg-Schwerin’sches Militär-Verdienstkreuz II. Klasse

    k. u. k. Österr. Militär-Verdienstkreuz, III. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration

    Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer

    Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung, IV. bis I. Klasse

    Kriegsverdienstkreuz (1939), II. und I. Klasse mit Schwertern

    Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern am 12. Oktober 1944 als Admiral und Präsident des Reichskriegsgerichts

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