hucks216 Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 Can anyone help me in identifying this signature please - dated for April 1933 with the rank of Major and Kommandeur of II/Inf.Rgt 14. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 Should be Generalmajor Eugen Bilharz, and if you squint, it almost looks like it. And I thought my signature was nigh illegible. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 Thanks for that Dave. I don't think I would of got that in a million years, especially with just the signature to go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted October 17, 2018 Author Share Posted October 17, 2018 A friend has asked me to try and identify this signature for him and I am currently stuck on it, I can not even identify the first letter. Is it an A, F or something else? It is signed on behalf of GdA Wiktorin and there is a chance it could be a Luftwaffe Generalleutnant and I am basing that solely on not being able to find a Heer name in my books and files that might fit. So could be Heer but could be Luftwaffe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satzar Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) Hi everyone ! I'm asking once more for your kind help. Could anyone identify the signature of this Hauptmann from 1. Kompanie Infanterie-Regiment 109 from 35. Infanterie-Division. He was in command in 1936 until at least 1938. Thanks in advance, Satzar. Edited November 17, 2018 by Satzar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted November 17, 2018 Author Share Posted November 17, 2018 55 minutes ago, Satzar said: Hi everyone ! I'm asking once more for your kind help. Could anyone identify the signature of this Hauptmann from 1. Kompanie Infanterie-Regiment 109 from 35. Infanterie-Division. He was in command in 1936 until at least 1938. Thanks in advance, Satzar. The 1938 Stellenbesetzung shows a Hauptmann Pfeifer which I would say matches that signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Otto Pfeifer, born 2.9.1898 in Schleiz, Reuß jüngere Linie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satzar Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 (edited) A great thanks to both of you ! I would never have found this one. According to the 1939 Stellenbezetzung, he was transfered to Infanterie-Regiment 56. Edited November 25, 2018 by Satzar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFarr29 Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Hi Can anyone assist with this signature. Its an EKII doc late 1943 to a soldier kia near Kiev. His VWA Schwarz doc is signed by a staff officer in AR 188 (his unit) but this doc appears to be a generalmajor and the stamp appears to contain SS (though that may be a misread) Im shrugging with the suetterin script on this one. First letter could be W? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted May 5, 2020 Author Share Posted May 5, 2020 It is Heinrich Roth of 88.infanterie-Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odulf Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Gents, I need your much appreciated help with this Generalmajor's signature. The EK2 document is to the 245 Inf.Rgt. but that, with my reference books, leads not to an identification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) What does the stamp say? It might be that Inf.Rgt 245 was attached to another division. EDIT: Found it - Dietrich Kraiss. For the date of that citation he was in command of 168.Infanterie-Division. Edited August 4, 2020 by hucks216 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odulf Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Thats great, thanks a ton! The Division stamp reads 168 (but it could also be read as 268, 269, 169, 168), so it is defenitely 168, the signature is verified by the signed portrait from internet (enclosed). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odulf Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Gents, again I need your help with the identification of a signature from a document dated 20-06-1940. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 (edited) Does anyone know who signed this? It has been signed on behalf of rather than by the person who held the position so can not find anything that fits. At the date show Karl Kriebel held the position shown on the citation while Ernst-Eberhard Hell held the command position in VII.Armeekorps - neither signature matches. Edited February 10, 2021 by hucks216 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted August 13, 2021 Share Posted August 13, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 On 18/09/2020 at 11:35, Odulf said: Gents, again I need your help with the identification of a signature from a document dated 20-06-1940. Thanks in advance Zieglmaier, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted November 13, 2021 Author Share Posted November 13, 2021 Does anyone have an example of Generalleutnant Eugen Demoll's signature for comparison purposes please and can confirm or refute the example below? The date, rank, place and position all fit so should be Demoll but I just cannot see that name in this signature. I have this signature in two different WP, both dated for 1936 but a few months apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 There was no personnel file for Demoll in the National Archives. If there's one in the Bundesarchiv, it's not available. I also haven't found his signature on evaluations of subordinates, whether in the Heer or Polizei. If this is his signature on his marriage certificate, rather than that of a clerk, it is not close, but this also dates from 1910, and we've seen big changes in signatures over even shorter timeframes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 I believe this is the signature of Oberst Freiherr von Schönau-Wehr of W.B.K Türbingen as listed in the 1937 Stellenbesetzung but does anyone know his first name and any additional details please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 (edited) Schönau-Wehr, Eberhard Adolf Rudolf Johann Freiherr von *04.04.1877 auf Wehr, Großherzogtum Baden †23.01.1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau Mitherr auf Wehr, Schwörstadt und Wieladingen Hofmarschall der Großherzogin Hilda von Baden 07.03.1896 char. Portepée-Fähnrich im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 113 18.10.1896 Portepée-Fähnrich 20.07.1897 Sekondelieutenant 09.07.1900 in das 4. Ostasiatische Infanterie-Regiment versetzt (China-Expedition) 06.06.1901 in das 2. Ostasiatische Infanterie-Regiment versetzt 04.08.1902 in das Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 113 wieder angestellt 20.07.1907 Oberleutnant 27.01.1913 Hauptmann xx.xx.1914 leicht verwundet als Chef der 12./IR 113 16.05.1920 Waffenoffizier (Infanterie) beim Wehrkreiskommando V 01.10.1920 im 14. Infanterie-Regiment bzw. 14. (badischen) Infanterie-Regiment xx.xx.1921 Major xx.xx.1922 RDA als Major vom 18.05.1920 (18) erhalten xx.xx.192x verabschiedet (zw. Mai 1926 und Mai 1927 Ranglisten) xx.xx.1935 Oberst (E) mit RDA vom 01.10.1929 01.11.1935 Kommandeur des Wehrbezirks Tübingen (laut Stellenbesetzung) I am not sure of the promotion date to Major. It was between the 01.10.1920 and 01.10.1921 Reichsheer Stellenbesetzungen. New Reichsheer RDAs were assigned around September 1922, I believe. He's in the 12.10.1937 Stellenbesetzung, but not in the 1938 Stellenbesetzung, so he was retired between those. He was an Oberst z.V. in 1940, according to the HPA personnel file of one of his sons. Ritter des Großherzoglich Badischen Militär-Karl-Friedrich-Verdienstordens (BV3) Ritter des Königlich Preußischen Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern (HOH3X) - plus about a dozen more decorations and campaign, commemorative and service medals Edited June 29, 2022 by Dave Danner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 Thanks for that Dave, that is a great bit of detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 This signature is for a Major von Kleist based at WBK Stolp but can anyone provide further details please? It seems to be a name that might have a personal link to Stolp (or might not!) There was a Diether Dennies von Kleist (born 13th March 1890) who served as a Hauptmann in Kaiser-Alexander-Garde-Gren.- Rgts. Nr. 1 and married to Freya Untermann in Stolp on 25th February 1945 and whose family seems to have links to Stolp according to 'Die Familie von Kleist 1934' as found online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Danner Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 17/09/2022 at 10:22, hucks216 said: This signature is for a Major von Kleist based at WBK Stolp but can anyone provide further details please? It seems to be a name that might have a personal link to Stolp (or might not!) There was a Diether Dennies von Kleist (born 13th March 1890) who served as a Hauptmann in Kaiser-Alexander-Garde-Gren.- Rgts. Nr. 1 and married to Freya Untermann in Stolp on 25th February 1945 and whose family seems to have links to Stolp according to 'Die Familie von Kleist 1934' as found online. Kleist, Diether-Dennies Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Ewald August Arthur Richard Georg von *13.3.1890 in Stuttgart †16.05.1971 in Göttingen 25.06.1909 Leutnant 15.07.1917 Oberleutnant 15.07.1918 Hauptmann 01.10.1933 Hauptmann a.D. (16) 15.05.1934 Major a.D. 05.03.1935 Major (E) 01.04.1935 RDA vom 01.08.1934 01.11.1936 Ordungsnummer (22) zum RDA vom 01.08.1934 01.06.1939 Oberstleutnant (10) 01.08.1941 Oberstleutnant mit RDA vom 01.06.1939 (56) 01.02.1942 Oberst (244) xx.xx.1909 in das Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 1 eingetreten 01.02.1914 zum Flieger-Bataillon Nr. 1 kommandiert 01.08.1914 zum Etappen-Flugzeugpark der 1. Armee kommandiert 23.08.1914 in die Armee-Flieger-Abteilung Nr. 1 versetzt 09.10.1914-27.09.1918 in franz. Gefangenschaft und in der Schweiz interniert 01.10.1918 im Stabe des Chef des Generalstabes des Feldheeres, Abteilung Fremde Heere 09.11.1918-01.02.1919 Grenzschutz Ost 09.04.1920 verabschiedet 01.03.1920-31.12.1921 Adjutant der Sicherheitspolizei, Gruppe Duisburg 1923-1933 Angestellter im Reichsdienst gem. § 56 W.V.G. (L-Offizier Kreis Schlawe) 01.10.1933 Kreisleiter in Schlawe 01.11.1936 Leiter des WMA Schlawe, WBK Stolp (Pommern) (Umbenennung der Stellenbesetzung) 10.11.1938 Leiter des WMA Schlawe, WBK Köslin (Umbenennung der Stellenbesetzung) 01.07.1939 Stabsoffizier beim Stabe des WBK Stolp (Pommern) (zugleich Leiter WMA Schlawe bis 23.02.1940) 19.03.1941 zum Stabe des Militärbefehlshabers im Generalgouvernement kommandiert 09.06.1941 Kommando aufgehoben 01.08.1941 zu den aktiven Truppenoffizieren übergeführt 09.03.1942 stellv. Kommandeur des WBK Neustettin (bis 01.04.1942) 01.09.1942 m.d.W.d.G. des Kommandeurs des WBK Stolp (Pommern) beauftragt 01.05.1943 Kommandeur des WBK Stolp (Pommern) xx.09.1914 EK2 02.12.1914 EK1 13.07.1934 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer 02.10.1936 Wehrmacht (Heer) Dienstauszeichnung 4. bis 2. Klasse 28.01.1939 Wehrmacht (Heer) Dienstauszeichnung 1. Klasse 24.12.1940 Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern xx.xx.19xx Kaiserlich Russischer Orden vom St. Stanislaus 3. Klasse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hucks216 Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 That's great, thanks Dave. It confirms it is him although I don't think I have ever seen so many middle names before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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