dedehansen Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Hello Gent´s, is it possible to ID this saxonian major ? Every help appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 His medal bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 His shoulder boards Regards Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deruelle Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deruelle Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deruelle Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Hoffmann with his ribbon bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccj Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 What unit did he service giving his the authorization to wear litzen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IR 134 Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 @ Christophe, thank you very much, very appreciated @ IR 134 please mail me your email address All the best Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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