Prussia Database with photos of officers showing their knight cross with X of Hohenzollern

[Mattyboy]

Thanks a lot !!!  

[Mattyboy]

This guy looks familiar. Can anyone read the name please? 

 

[Nicolas7507]

Nice photo of Major Martin Eberhardt (1883-1942)

[Nicolas7507]

Major Hild (?)

[Glenn J]

Hello Nicolas,

 

that is Major Siegfried Heine (17.1.83-20.2.75), a later Wehrmacht Generalmajor.

 

Regards

Glenn

[Mattyboy]

Here's another recipient 

 

[Nicolas7507]

Another one with HOH3X,  WM3, WF3aX and ÖM3K. 

[ccj]

On 26/08/2021 at 11:57, Nicolas7507 said:

Major Hild (?)

Major Hold has an impressive medal bar. It appears he's from a guard or grenadier regiment. 

[Nicolas7507]

Siegfried Heine had the following assignments:

 

22.04.1914 Adjutant der 27. Infanteriebrigade
06.01.1915 Führer der 6. / Infanterieregiment 256
05.10.1915 Adjutant des VIII. Armeekorps
01.08.1917 Kommandeur des I. / Leibgrenadierregiment 8
27.05.1918 im Kriegsministerium
09.04.1920 ausgeschieden

[Mattyboy]

Here is another HOH3x winner. Not sure what the thingy is next to his EK1.... 

 

[Mattyboy]

Kurt von Obernitz (born 1878) from https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000111128294821?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000111241766843 

 

 

[Bayern]

On 05/09/2021 at 12:28, Mattyboy said:

Here is another HOH3x winner. Not sure what the thingy is next to his EK1.... 

 

A very strange thing , the man wears what looks like a Infantry Kunftigefriedens uniform , Field grey with red collar and brandenburg cuffs piped in white but with the Rank Insignias of a Oberleutnant in the Provisional Reichswehr , the stripes on the cuffs and the Shoulder cords or more properly achselschlinge , he too carries a Prussian officer Pickelhaube .

[GreyC]

On 05/09/2021 at 17:28, Mattyboy said:

Not sure what the thingy is next to his EK1.... 

 

It is a rare photo of an Oberleutnant of the Vorläufige Reichswehr, the thingy is a FREIKORPS-badge, possibly Freikorps Faupel. But I wouldn´t vouch for it. It might also be a Freilorps-Formation from the former 5th Armeekorps (thanks Andy).

GreyC

Edited September 13, 2021 by GreyC

[Nicolas7507]

Oberst Fritz Maetzke ( IR 53) 

[Nicolas7507]

A Luftwaffe Major

[Mattyboy]

A very stern-looking man. The 3rd & 4th medals appear to be identical, to my untrained eye. Does anyone know what awards these are on his ribbon bar? 

[Nicolas7507]

12 hours ago, Mattyboy said:

A very stern-looking man. The 3rd & 4th medals appear to be identical, to my untrained eye. Does anyone know what awards these are on his ribbon bar? 

My guess would be SA3aX, SA3bX, but I can't say that for sure.

 

 

Hauptmann Wilhelm Baumbach.

 

Does anyone know details about his career post 1933?

 

Edited September 29, 2021 by Nicolas7507

[GreyC]

Hi,

can´t say anything post 1933, he is not listed in Career Summaries - Luftwaffe Officers 1935 - 1945. The photo seems to have been taken after May 1919, or if he already wears the Adler-Kokarde, after Oct. 1919. He seems to have come from an artillery unit before he joined the Luftstreitkräfte. Maybe he served with a Artillerie-Flieger unit and after the war as Artillerie-Offizier.

Best,

GreyC

Edited September 29, 2021 by GreyC

[Nicolas7507]

Thanks! The photo has to be from 1925 or later as he was promoted to Hauptmann on 01.05.1925.

 

00.00.1928 Hauptmann im 2. Artillerie-Regiment.

 

I think he was promoted to Major in the early 1930s, after that I lost him. No entries in Heer sources, too.

[GreyC]

Maybe he never made it into the Wehrmacht? I know that there are files at the Bundesarchiv for Wehrmachtsoffiziere, I don´t know if officers who served with the Reichswehr only have also been preserved. Maybe worth a try searching there.

GreyC

[Deruelle]

17 hours ago, Mattyboy said:

A very stern-looking man. The 3rd & 4th medals appear to be identical, to my untrained eye. Does anyone know what awards these are on his ribbon bar? 

Hi Matt, it seems to be the Albert Orden 2nd and 1st class. Next is the Verdienst Orden

 

Christophe

[Mattyboy]

Thanks folks 

[The Prussian]

Hello!

I can add an unknown officer of Reiter-Regiment 11 (post-war-era).

 

 

Then I have Lt. Jakob Schön from bavarian 22.Inf.Rgt. with badge of bavarain 11th Army and Hohenzollern ribbon.

 

 

and Major Kurt v. Plüskow, bataillon-commander of Jg.Btl.8

Edited October 2, 2021 by The Prussian

[jaba1914]

On 29/09/2021 at 09:33, Nicolas7507 said:

My guess would be SA3aX, SA3bX, but I can't say that for sure.

 

 

 

 

It is

HOHX (14.11.1917)

SH3 (02.06.1917)

SA3bX (27.12.1916)

FAK2 & FAK1 (16.02.1918)

[Nicolas7507]

Great info thanks, but I was talking about the Luftwaffe Major above Baumbach.