GM Georg Bruchmüller

[Deutschritter]

Gentlemen, this is what I have for Georg Heinrich Bruchmüller, any additions or corrections very welcome ... maybe even a better picture?

 

7.8.1883 Three-year volunteer (Dreijährig-Freiwilliger)

16.1.1884 (???) Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)

13.3.1884 Portepée-Fähnrich (Officer Cadet)

14.2.1885 Sekondeleutnant (2nd Lieutenant)

... maybe Patent from 18 March 1886???

14.9.1893 Premierleutnant (1st Lieutenant)

18.8.1896 Hauptmann (Captain) without Patent
** later received Patent from 18 March 1899???

18.10.1908 Major

30.9./1.10.1913 (???) Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel)

... possibly Charakter als (honorary rank), receiving full rank on 22 March 1916???

18.4.1918 Oberst (Colonel)

... maybe 18 August 1918???

27.8.1939 Generalmajor (Major General)

 

Prussian Centenary Medal 1897 (Zentenarmedaille)

Red Eagle Order (Roter Adlerorden), 4th Class (PRAO4/PrA4) on 15 September 1904

Prussian Long Service Cross for 25 years (Königlich Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz; DA/PDK) on 16 January 1909

Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class

... 2nd Class on 14 December 1914

... 1st Class on 22 December 1914

Saxon Albrechts-Orden, Officer's Cross with Swords (SA3⚔) in 1915

Austrian Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with War Decoration (ÖM3K) on 23 July 1916

Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves

... Pour le Mérite on 1 May 1917

... Oak Leaves on 26 March 1918

Austrian Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd Class with War Decoration (ÖEK3K) on 15 May 1917

Military Merit Order (Bavaria), 3rd Class with Swords (BMV3⚔) on 6 December 1917

Bremen Hanseatic Cross (Bremisches Hanseatenkreuz; BH) on 1 February 1918

Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords

 

Honours

Deines-Bruchmüller-Kaserne in Lahnstein (Rhineland) 

Honorary citizen of Niederlahnstein in 1939

 

 

Edited July 18 by Deutschritter