What practicle purpose ? Leutnant der Landwehr a.D

[Chris Boonzaier]

In August 1939 the German state gave all recipients of the bavarian bravery medal the honorary title of Leutnant der Landwehr a.D,.... what would this have meant a month later? Would they have automatically have become officers (age permitting) if they were called up?

Thanks

Chris

[Josef Rietveld]

This regulation was also made for former austrian citizens who got the austria golden bravery medal. as far as i know, all of them who were called upfor service became officers.

haynau

[Chris Boonzaier]

This regulation was also made for former austrian citizens who got the austria golden bravery medal. as far as i know, all of them who were called upfor service became officers.

haynau

I assume stores and recruiting depots all over the reich had old bravery medal officers sitting behind a desk. I wonder if it was planned, to promote them just before the outbreak of the war?

[Claudius]

I assume stores and recruiting depots all over the reich had old bravery medal officers sitting behind a desk. I wonder if it was planned, to promote them just before the outbreak of the war?

The TR era guys understood manpower issues. Having decorated veterans, with another 20 years of seasoning to run responsible positions in storehouses and recruiting depots would free up younger men for frontline duty.

I have a document to a guy from German East Africa in WWI, captured by the British in 1914 and exchanged back to Germany in 1917. My point is that during WWII, he was a quasi-officer rank at a recruitment station.