Saxony unknown Saxonian officer

[dedehansen]

Hello Gent´s,

is it possible to ID this saxonian major ?

Every help appreciated

[dedehansen]

His medal bar

[dedehansen]

His shoulder boards

Regards

Andreas

[Deruelle]

Hi Andreas,

A very nice photo you have there. the name is Major d. L. Kurt Hoffmann from RIR 133.

The day you want to sell it, don't hesitate to pm me, I'm still interrested by such nice photo.

Christophe

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Kurt Hoffmann was born on 12 April 1862.

He received the following orders :

SH3, 29 October 1915

Kr z SA3aX, 16 January 1918

SA3aX, 31 July 1915

SMK, 20 October 1915

BZ3b, 1909

BFLM, 1907

LDA1, 1904

LDA2, 14 March 1897

Christophe

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Hoffmann with his ribbon bar

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What unit did he service giving his the authorization to wear litzen?

[IR 134]

Nice Picture!

He was a former Reserve-Officer of GR 101 "Kaiser Wilhelm, König v. Preußen, transferred to Landwehr 1895 and back to the reserve of GR 101 on 07. Sept. 1916. On the shoulderboard on your pic. he´s wearing the cypher "WR I" with crown. On that time he was the CO of 1. Ersatz-Bat./IR 134 and your photo is with great possibility from this date.

I also have a photo of him with officers from Ersatz-Bataillon /Landwehr-IR 107, ca. August-Sept. 1914 where he is pictured without Litzen, SB not visible.

Hoffmann was a somewhat famous pharmacist in Baden-Baden, that´s why he´s wearing the Zähringer. He later lived in Wiesbaden and died in 1947

look here: MATTIACA Schutzhütten Curt-Hoffmann-Hütte

Gruß Stefan

PS: could I have a clearer scan of it for my database?

Thank you.

Edited December 21, 2014 by IR 134

[dedehansen]

@ Christophe, thank you very much, very appreciated

@ IR 134 please mail me your email address

All the best

Andreas