Careers of some officers in Jg.Btl. 10 (Hann.)

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Hello readers:

Perhaps this post may attract some attention and is meant to underline the elite status Jaeger units enjoyed when one sees the subsequent careers of some officers who served in this Jg.Btl.

-Gen.Oberst H. Guderian . Even though on detached duty during WW I he returned to the battalion after the war. His WW II career needs no further words.

-Gen.d.Pz.Tr. Hermann Balck, Hohenzoller, WW II Diamonds to the K.C. w/Oak-leaves and Swords. (note: Gen Bailck wrote a 3 vol. history of this battalion)

-Gen.d.Geb.Tr. Hans Kreysing, Hohenzoller, WW II Oak-leaves and Swords to the K.C.;

-Gen.d.Inf. Bodewin Keitel (brother of Feldmarschall W. Keitel with whom he gets confused often because his signature appears on award documents while head of the Army Personnel Office and a certain likeness of their signatures on top of it), had no command of troops in

WWII.

-gen.Lt. Heinrich Kirchheim PLM, WW II K.C.;

-Gen.Lt. Ernst Haccius WW II German Cross.i.G. and K.C.;

-Gen.Maj. Fritz Fullriede, served in Res.Jg.Btl.10 and postwar in Jg.Btl. Kirchheim. WW II Oak-

Leaves to the K.C.

-Gen.Maj. Hans Joachim von Stolzmann, WW II German Cross i. G., Honor Roll Clasp and K.C.

I believe this an exceptional record coming from the surviving officer personnel of a rather small size formation which experienced severe losses in all ranks especially during the Battle of Verdun in which and in other battles this battalion fought as a component of the German Alpenkorps

Bernhard H.Holst

[Chris Boonzaier]

Balck was really a prolific writer after the war. I think I have some other things written by him.

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Balck was really a prolific writer after the war. I think I have some other things written by him.

Hi:

Yes indeed. He wrote what I would call an autobiography and I believe several contributions to periodic military subjects publications . I do not have his history of Jg.Btl. 10 , the last one offered was too rich for me. But the one volume history by Lt.d.R.a.D. Fritz Jung is quite adequate and is one source for the above post together with the Biblio series on German Army Generals as well as W.Keilig's reference book on the same subject. I should have made mention of sources.

Bernhard H. Holst