Chris Boonzaier Posted November 26, 2015 Posted November 26, 2015 For ages I have wondered about the loops for a 3rd Pinback on this tunic..... Now I think I have it? Hawickhorst (from the name) has an extremely strong Oldenburg connection.... From observing other groups, Oldenburg seems to have been pretty liberal in giving them to Oldenburgers in other regiments?
Paul R Posted November 26, 2015 Posted November 26, 2015 They look like they belong together. Do you know anything else about this officer?
Chris Boonzaier Posted November 27, 2015 Author Posted November 27, 2015 Hi, the medals are not his, just loop fillers, I wanted to get the tunic "right"... Here is a write up about 1914... another will eventually follow for 1918... http://www.kaiserscross.com/41815/329201.html
Dave Danner Posted December 7, 2015 Posted December 7, 2015 Dr.phil. Heinrich Georg Conrad Karl Hawickhorst was born on 4 December 1875 in Oldenburg i. Ghzgtm. He graduated from the Oberrealschule in Oldenburg in 1896, and then was a Kand. d. höheren Lehramts in Prussian Saxony. He was promoted to Dr.phil. on 18 May 1901 by the University of Halle. From 1.10.05-30.9.12, he was an Oberlehrer in Halle (Oberrealschule Franke-Stiftung), on 1.10.12 he was named Direktor of the Realschule Ems, and on 1.12.24 he was a Studiendirektor at a Realgymnasium in Staßfurt. He retired on 1 April 1938. He was married on 5.10.07 and had four children. He was an Einjährig-Freiwilliger in Metz from 1.10.03-30.9.04, Lt.d.R. on 16.2.07 and OLt.d.R. on 8.2.15. He received the Friedrich August Cross 2nd Class on 25.11.14. Unfortunately, none of his later decorations are listed in his personnel file. He was wounded twice in 1914.
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 7, 2015 Author Posted December 7, 2015 Bang! Thanks Dave, that nails it and gives me a huge leg up... that info will help me along big time. Some of the same with other bits.... Geboren am 4. Dezember 1875 zu Oldenburg i. Gr., besu chte das Realprogymnasium in Naumburg a. S. bis zur Schlußprüfung, dann die Oberrealschule zu Oldenburg i. Gr. und bestand hier Ostern 1896 die Reifeprüfung. Mi- chaelis 1899 erwarb er sich durch eine Ergänzungspr üfung im Lateinischen zugleich das Reifezeugnis eines Realgymnasium. Seit Ostern 1896 studierte er neuere Sprachen in Jena, Heidelberg, Genf und Halle. Im Mai 1901 promovierte er zum Dr. phil. Nach bestandenem Staatsexamen wurde er im Herbst 1902 dem Melanch- thon-Gymnasium in Wittenberg zur Ableistung des Semina rjahres überwiesen. Seiner Militärpflicht genügte er vom 1. Oktober 1903 ab im Metz. Nachdem er sein Probejahr an der Oberrealschule der Franckeschen Stiftun- gen in Halle a. S. vollendet hatte, wurde er am 1. Oktobe r 1905 an der gleichen Anstalt als Oberlehrer angestellt. Zugleich wirkte er als Erzieher an der Pensionsansta lt der Franckeschen Stiftungen. Am 27. September 1912 erfolgte die Allerhöchste Bestätigung seiner Wahl zum Direktor der Realschule mit Reform-Realprogymnasium in Ems. Er veröffentlichte: „Über die Geographie bei A ndrea de‘ Magnabotti“. Diss. inaug. Halle 1901, fortge- setzt in: Romanische Forschungen, XI II. Bd., 3. Heft; Erlangen 1902. Aus: Programm Bad Ems Realschule 1913.
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 7, 2015 Author Posted December 7, 2015 Here was the school he was Direktot at before the war....
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