House Order of Hohenzollern - info needed

[Mattyboy]

The first name of Hptm Welsch (IR 130) is Hermann. He is mentioned in the loss list. 

[webr55]

On 14/08/2022 at 14:30, Mattyboy said:

Not sure if we have mentioned him already - Ernst Werner. From Jenaische Zeitung 15.09.1918. 

 

 

Good one! The OA dR Werner from GGR 5. 

 

[webr55]

Hptm dR Deloch from FAR 108 is Hans Deloch from Karchwitz/Kosel. In VL (wounded Nov 1917) as a regular Hptm, but that must be an error. There was no regular officer Deloch in ERL. 

There were two other 1914 Lts dR in FAR 42 (also from Cosel) and FAR 20, but I don't think that they could have been promoted to Hptm by June 1917. 

 

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by webr55

[webr55]

About Lt dR Delbrück from IR 396: The name is relatively rare, it looks like they all belong to one influential Prussian family (most famous of course, the later Nobel Prize winner Max). 

Going by VL, there are a number of dR officers Delbrück here, but only two of them would fit, given the rank, branch and the time of award:

1) Hermann Hugo Heinrich Delbrück, born 5.8.1893 in Berlin. Kaufmann, "Großvertreter für Pflanzenschutzmittel" 1940 in Rostock. Died 7.8.1980 in Wolfenbüttel (acc. to myheritage).

2) Wolfgang Gerhard Felix Delbrück, born 1.6.1893 in Halle/S. 1915 in RIR 207. Bankdirektor in Düren, back in WW2 as Major dR. Died 25.12.1984 in Düren (acc. to myheritage). 

 

[webr55]

Dipl.-Ing. Alfred Fladt died in an accident in 1934. Born 22.11.1896 in Rodach.

 

From Rhein und Ruhr Zeitung, 15.3.1934

 

 

[Dave Danner]

Reye, Johann Wilhelm
*7.2.1873 in Straßburg i.E.

†14.2.1952 in Berlin-Zehlendorf

- Oberleutnant d.L.-Felda. I (Molsheim) (27.1.00 Lt.d.R. d. FAR 62, 20.4.10 OLt.d.R.), 7.10.14 Hauptmann unter gleichzeitiger Versetzung zu den Reserve-Offizieren des FARs 51, z.Zt. im FAR 51.
- 1911 Oberförster, 1920 Reg.- u. Forstrat, Oberforstmeister i.R.

- HOH3X (23.4.1918, Hptm.d.R., FAR 225), LD2

 

3./FAR 225 and 6./FAR 225 were taken from FAR 51.

 

Reye was an Oberförster in Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen before 1918, so he does not show up in the Prussian Court and State Handbook. As a former FAR 62 reserve officer, he might have received the Oldenburg Friedrich-August-Kreuz, but there's no way to confirm.

[webr55]

First name: Hptm Adolf Rinn, from IR 85 and IR 14, born 17.7.XX in Hamburg, KIA 2.8.1918. There was only one regular Rinn in ERL. 

 

[Dave Danner]

Adolf Rinn was born in 1877.

 

He entered JB 8 in 1896, so he would have also had the Centenarmedaille.

[webr55]

About Lt dR Ritterbusch from Sturmbataillon Nr. 1: The only officer in VL with that name is Lt dR Ludwig Ritterbusch from Osnabrück, originally from IR 78.

He was a teacher (Oberschullehrer, Rektor), 1884-1944, died in an air raid on Osnabrück, listed here: 

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2008/osnabrueck_ratsgymnasium_ns.htm

Edited August 23, 2022 by webr55

[Dave Danner]

There were at least two Leutnants der Reserve Ritterbusch - Ludwig commissioned on 26.10.1914 and another Lt.d.R. d. Inf. (Torgau) commissioned on 8.9.1917 (no unit given).  Ludwig lists no decorations in his personnel file, and as he became a Volksschulrektor in 1934, he is not in the 1941 DAL of higher Schuldienst officials. He seems a good possibility, but we can't say for certain.

[webr55]

20 minutes ago, Dave Danner said:

There were at least two Leutnants der Reserve Ritterbusch - Ludwig commissioned on 26.10.1914 and another Lt.d.R. d. Inf. (Torgau) commissioned on 8.9.1917 (no unit given).  Ludwig lists no decorations in his personnel file, and as he became a Volksschulrektor in 1934, he is not in the 1941 DAL of higher Schuldienst officials. He seems a good possibility, but we can't say for certain.

 

The Torgau Lt dR, could that have been Wilhelm Ritterbusch, the later Nazi official? He was Kompanieführer in WW1.

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

 

 

[Dave Danner]

1 hour ago, webr55 said:

 

The Torgau Lt dR, could that have been Wilhelm Ritterbusch, the later Nazi official? He was Kompanieführer in WW1.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Ritterbusch\

 

Seems like a good possibility. If so, that points to Ludwig as the HOH3X-Träger, since Wilhelm does not appear to have the EK1 in the photos of him on Wikipedia Commons.

[Glenn J]

2 hours ago, webr55 said:

The Torgau Lt dR, could that have been Wilhelm Ritterbusch, the later Nazi official? He was Kompanieführer in WW1.

 

Wilhelm Adolf Ritterbusch was commissioned into RIR 227 on 8.9.17.

 

Regards

Glenn

[webr55]

Hauptmann Rubach is the 1914 Lt in Uffz-Vorschule Sigmaringen, from IR 46. Just couldn't find his first name. 

Only one Rubach in ERL.

[Glenn J]

7 minutes ago, webr55 said:

Just couldn't find his first name. 

 

Herbert Rubach.

 

Regards

Glenn

[webr55]

28 minutes ago, Glenn J said:

 

Herbert Rubach.

 

Regards

Glenn

Ah! Lived in Potsdam in 1934 as Hauptmann aD.

 

[webr55]

Lt dR Rux from RIR 76 should be Alfred Rux, born 28.3.1897 in Hamburg. He is listed as a regular Lt in VL Jan 1919, missing. The VL July 1918 has him as a reserve officer, however. 

I find no trace of him after WW1. 

[Dave Danner]

54 minutes ago, webr55 said:

Lt dR Rux from RIR 76 should be Alfred Rux, born 28.3.1897 in Hamburg. He is listed as a regular Lt in VL Jan 1919, missing. The VL July 1918 has him as a reserve officer, however. 

I find no trace of him after WW1. 

There was no him after World War I. He was killed in action on 18.10.1918 by Le Cateau.

 

He was a Lt.d.R. of IR 21.

[webr55]

Lt dR Scherre (rare name) from IR 467 should be Karl Scherre, originally from RIR 71, born 20.5.1894 in Leubingen/Eckartsberga. 

[webr55]

The Lt dR Schildert (rare name) from 6. GFAR must be Walter Erich Max Schildert. He was Apotheker. Born 1.4.1896 in Berlin, died 25.10.1930 in Berlin (acc. to VL and ancestry). 

VL have him as a regular Lt, which must be an error, since there is no Schildert in ERL.

Edited August 26, 2022 by webr55

[webr55]

Hptm "Servais", who got the HHOX around June/July 1917, is a puzzling case. In the ERL, there are only two officers "Servais", both made only Lt, one of them (Albert from FußAR 16) was KIA in 1916.

He cannot have been reserve, since there was no reserve officer Servais in the 1914 RLs. 

 

The only other option is that this is a typo: The name is "Servaes". There are two Servaes in the ERL:

- Oberst aD Heinrich Servaes, who got the HHOX in September 1917 as OTL, originally from FußAR 3. Not him.

 

- The 1914 Olt Servaes from UR 7, served in Generalstab 17. LD. He is listed as Rittmeister aD, not Hauptmann - but still, he is the only candidate. Maybe he served with infantry during the war and got the cavalry rank after the war. Also, he had a Knights Cross of the Portuguese Order of Saint Benedict d'Aviz.

I don't find his first name, maybe Glenn has it. 

 

He is not in VL, neither as Servais or Servaes.

[Glenn J]

41 minutes ago, webr55 said:

I don't find his first name, maybe Glenn has it. 

 

Carl Servaes.  As a captain in the general staff, he would have used the rank of Hauptmann even from a cavalry or train background.

 

Regards

Glenn

[Dave Danner]

Servaes, Carl Franz
*22.01.1883 in Ruhrort am Rhein (jetzt Duisburg-Ruhrort)
†19.08.1960 in Gernsbach, Baden-Württemberg

 

01.10.1901 Fahnenjunker im UR 7
18.07.1902 Fähnrich
12.02.1903 Leutnant
21.02.1911 Oberleutnant
01.10.1911 zur Kriegsakademie kommandiert
02.08.1914 Adjutant der 31. Infanterie-Division
08.10.1914 Rittmeister
09.05.1915 zur Verwendung in einer Generalstabsstelle zur 9. Kavallerie-Division versetzt
16.10.1915 unter Belassung in seiner Dienststelle in den Generalstab der Armee versetzt
06.12.1915 in den Generalstab der Etappen-Inspektion der 6. Armee versetzt
21.09.1916 in den Generalstab der Etappen-Inspektion der 1. Armee versetzt

 

22.09.1914 EK2
10.12.1915 EK1
05.08.1916 BMV4X

xx.xx.19xx PB3b

[webr55]

It looks like Carl Servaes went into military intelligence in WW2, made Oberst (1.1.1942) and "Leiter der Abwehrstelle Brüssel". He was close to Canaris. 

[webr55]

For Hptm Bullrich, received HHOX around April 1917, we have two brothers as candidates, both Olt in 1914:

 

- Arthur Fritz Franz Bullrich, from IR 72, GSt 81. RD, born 21.8.1885 in Glatz. Had a BMO5. Died in Berlin in 1932 as Kaufmann and Major aD. Several publications, one about "der chemische Luftkrieg" in 1931. 

 

- Georg Louis Eberhard Bullrich, from IR 162, GSt 15. ID, born 1.7.1882 in Glatz. He was in South West Africa before WW1, held a KO4X and the DSWA medal. Major aD. He is listed as Polizei-Oberst aD in passenger lists until 1938, as well as in the death certificate of his brother. 

 

Cannot tell which one at the moment. 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2022 by webr55