HeikoGrusdat Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Here is one of the well known family VON TROTHA !!! Has anyone informations on Wolf von Trotha - military career , orders and awards , ships and oversee times ??? Everything is welcome... first picture shows him 1902 on SMS STEIN - look at his dagger !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeikoGrusdat Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 ...and the second one in 1905 , this time with saber and Galauniform !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Search his name and you will see he has come up several times. He is a Seekadett in the first photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Wups. Actually NOT-- just OTHER members of his family.... Born 1 October 1884 in Potsdam. Seized by Soviet State Security in the American Zone 4 December 1945 and never seen again. "Legal" death "date" randomly selected as 31 January 1946 for administrative purposes. Navy 1 April 1902 (first photo taken in 1902) to 30 September 1936 (!!!-- apparently must have run afoul of the viciously vindictive and petty Erich Raeder), Zur Verfügung 15 February 1939 to 30 November 1942. Fährnich zS 11.04.03 Lt zS 29.09.05 Oberleutnant zS 30.03.08 Kapitänleutnant zS 22.03.14 Korvettenkapitän zS 01.03.21 Fregattenkapitän zS 01.03.28 Kapitän zS 01.01.30 Konteradmiral char. 01.10.33 and Patent 01.04.34 char Vizeadmiral zS aD 30.09.36 and Patent as VA zS zV 01.09.41 He was a torpedo boat commander during the First War. His last 4 years of active duty in the 1930s were as Commandant of the Naval School Mürwik. He was not particulaly active after recall, actually only serving as Oberwerftdirektor at St. Nazaire 21.01.41-18.10.42. Typically, the Soviets seem to have confused him for some OTHER member of the von Trotha family who they were hunting, and took him by mistake. It is possible that he had some sort of severe medical problems, since rather than the chunky "football player" of these young photos, he was a scrawny underweight old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeikoGrusdat Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 :beer: Thank you very much Rick :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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