Who has his medal bar?

[Naxos]

Saw this nice photo of a Reichswehr General wearing his imperial medal bar - thought I share, perhaps one of you owns his bar.

[saschaw]

[...] thought I share, perhaps one of you owns his bar.

"What a foolish idea" was my first thought, to be honest. Buuut...

I don't know who owns it now, but the bar is damn close to this bar - with set - that was owned by our very own HeikoGrusdat but has been sold, if I my memory serves me right.

World's small, isn't it.

:speechless1:

Edited October 12, 2008 by saschaw

[MattGibbs]

Thats nice to see, because I saw this post earlier, admired the nice photo and thought to myself, knowing this forum I bet someone just might some up with something like that

great stuff

regards

[Noor]

Oh, what a nice one! And I recognised Heiko's medal bar as well!

So, what would be the general name? :unsure:

[HeikoGrusdat]

What a small world............................

The group has been sold to another member of this forum, maybe he will be very lucky now to get a name to this group with a now known face and a (for us) new breast cross to this group !!!!

In my eyes this is exactly the medal bar from my (former) group !!!!

picture has been sold on ebay.de for 68 Euro...

Heiko

[Guest Rick Research]

Whoever he was, he was retired before 1924, so I have not been able to find him!

That pinback "WK2cX" should be the key, since there is nothing on his medal bar that we have worked on Rolls for.

Maybe Daniel can turn him up from his W?rttemberg work.

I would say this officer began the war as a very senior Major, was almost immediately promoted to Oberstleutnant and then promoted again by war's end to Oberst, and probably falls through the cracks as one of those neither Imperial nor Reichswehr charakterisiert Generalmajor aD 1920 types.

ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH.

[Naxos]

I knew it!

Rick - this is what is written on the back: ... perhaps his name?

Hardy

Edited October 13, 2008 by Naxos

[HeikoGrusdat]

This is why the seller said in his auction title "picture from Glogau" ..... that is a german city..... but maybe it is his name ?!

The only Glaugau that could be a match is a Generaloberarzt Dr. Glaugau that has a RAO4 in 1914 !!! Could it be him?

[webr55]

Dr. Georg Glogau, Dr. med. from the University of Berlin in 1888 (Dissertation on "Zur Casuistik der Oberschenkelamputation im unteren Drittel nach Gritti"). Listed in the DOA 1908/09 with RAO4 and ZM, as OStA in IR 74 (Hannover). In 1914 Generaloberarzt (Divisionsarzt) at the 20th Division (Hannover). A.D. as Generalarzt.

[Guest Rick Research]

There are no medical devices on his boards, and a Generalarzt under the rank titles back then was = to an Oberst, not an actual General.

I come up empty on this one, unless Daniel has him for a list of WK2cX holders I do not have. :(

[webr55]

I think the most senior ("dienst?ltere") General?rzte were given the rank of Generalmajor.

Edited October 14, 2008 by webr55

[Glenn J]

I was with Daniel night and we discussed this photograph. The wonderful Daniel had already identified the gentlemen through his decorations but was unable to post because of computer problems. A quick check of the "Kabisch" confirmed Daniel's very correct assumptions:

char. Generalmajor Wilhelm Budde formerly Commandant of Glogau.

General Budde, born 5 July 1868 and died 26 June 1934 was a Prussian Pionier officer who commanded in Glogau from 16 May 1920 until his retirement on 30 September 1923.

Regards

Glenn

[Roman Slivin]

Budde, Wilhelm / KP / Major Gstb. / XXII. Res. Kps.

?M3K - 31. Dezember 1915.

"In Anerkennung vorz?glicher Dienstleistung vor dem Feinde"

[Guest Rick Research]

And I didn't "find" him because I had him listed with the L?beck Hanseatic (SIC) and not the Hamburg!

:cheers:

[webr55]

Ah! Good work Daniel and Glenn!

Chris

[Ulsterman]

BRAVO!!!!!

Gentlemen!

BRAVO!!!