ccj Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Is this Major Sproesser or Stroesser?Does anyone have a better photo of this man? I've love to see more detail of his medals bar and uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Is this Major Sproesser or Stroesser?Does anyone have a better photo of this man? I've love to see more detail of his medals bar and uniform.Hi Charles,yes, that is the then Major (later char. Generalmajor) Theodor Sproesser 10.9.70 - 8.2.1933RegardsGlenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 Here is a shot of him as a Vorl?ufiger Reichswehr Oberstleutnant and Commandant of Glatz in 1921. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 Hi Charles,yes, that is the then Major (later char. Generalmajor) Theodor Sproesser 10.9.70 - 8.2.1933RegardsGlennGlenn,Thank you, a very nice photo. Sproesser had a nice order bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 Glenn,Thank you, a very nice photo. Sproesser had a nice order bar.What are medals 6, 8, and 9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Here are Oberst Sproesser's awards as listed in the 1924 Reichsheer Rangliste.RegardsGlenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Here are Oberst Sproesser's awards as listed in the 1924 Reichsheer Rangliste.RegardsGlennCan you translate? I'm not fluent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Dwyer Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Charles,Well, I was going to try and answer your question, but my meager references are very inadequate. All I have to look up the symbols and abbreviations is the 1914 Rank List and a list of common abbrevaitions that Rick Research posted a few years ago. Unfortunately, I can't find the BM4XmKr or the WM3 listed on any of those documents, so I don't know what they are.The ones I think I got figuered out are:1. Prussia: Pour le Merite2. Prussia: Knights Cross with Swords, Royal Hohenzollern House Order3. Prussia: Iron Cross 1st Class4. Prussia: Wound Badge (not sure which type)5. BM4XmKr (no idea)6. WM3 (no idea)7. W?rttemberg: Honor Cross with Swords, Order of the W?rttemberg Crown8. W?rttemberg: Knights Cross 3rd Class, Friedrichs Order9. W?rttemberg: Dienstauszeichnung 1st Class (service medal?)10. Austria: Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class11. Austria: Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with War DecorationI could be off a bit on some of those and again I apologize for not being able to find 5 or 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 5. BM4XmKr (no idea)6. WM3 (no idea)The BM4XmKr is the Bayrischer Milit?rverdienstorden 4. Klasse mit Krone und Schwertern (7th place order on his bar) and the the WM3 is the W?rttemberg'scher Milit?rverdienstorden (2nd place on his bar). Rommel also got the WM3.Ciao,Claudio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Dwyer Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 The BM4XmKr is the Bayrischer Milit?rverdienstorden 4. Klasse mit Krone und Schwertern (7th place order on his bar) and the the WM3 is the W?rttemberg'scher Milit?rverdienstorden (2nd place on his bar). Rommel also got the WM3.Ciao,ClaudioThanks, Claudio. The reason I didn't see the MVO in the 1914 rank list is it is kind of indented under the Order of St. Michael and it didn't catch my eye like the rest, I though it was just another variation of the St. Michael Order.I didn't catch the W?rttemberg'scher Milit?rverdienstorden because it's listed as the WMV not as the WM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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