GdA Hans von Gronau

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Gentlemen, this is what I have for Johann "Hans" Karl Hermann von Gronau, any additions or corrections very welcome. I am surely missing some (several?) WWI decorations. Can anyone help me out? Does someone have this picture (see below), but larger and in better quality? Thanks! 

 

P.S.:

For some reason, I can neither find him in the Rangliste 1917 nor 1918. 

 

13.4.1869 Fahnenjunker (Officer Candidate)

21.11.1869 Portepee-Fähnrich (Officer Cadet) -- thank you, Andy (arb)

21.9.1870 Seconde-Lieutenant (2nd Lieutenant)

15.8.1878 Premier-Lieutenant (1st Lieutenant)

23.12.1882 Hauptmann (Captain)

15.10.1888 Major

27.1.1894 Oberst-Lieutenant (Lieutenant Colonel)

22.3.1897 Oberst (Colonel)

18.4.1900 Generalmajor (Major General)

29.10.1903 Generalleutnant (Lieutenant General)

27.1.1908 Charakter als General der Artillerie (Honorary General of the Artillery)

31.8.1914 (another source states 2.9.1914???) General der Artillerie (active)

 

Iron Cross (1870), 2nd Class

War Commemorative Medal of 1870–1871 (Kaiserliche Kriegsdenkmünze 1870/71; KD70/71) with five battle clasps

Red Eagle Order (Roter Adlerorden), 4th Class

Prussian Order of the Crown (Preußischer Kronenorden), 3rd Class

Prussian Long Service Cross for 25 years (Königlich Preußisches Dienstauszeichnungskreuz)

Order of the Crown (Württemberg), Knight's Cross (WK3b)

Anniversary Oak Leaves "25" 1870/1895 to his Iron Cross (1870), 2nd Class

Prussian Centenary Medal 1897 (Zentenarmedaille)

Red Eagle Order, 3rd Class with the Bow

Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), 2nd Class (ÖEK2)

Insignia of the Lions to his Order of the Crown (Württemberg) Knight's Cross (WK3mL)

Red Eagle Order, 2nd Class with Oak Leaves

Prussian Order of the Crown, 2nd Class

Star to his Red Eagle Order 2nd Class with Oak Leaves

Prussian Order of the Crown, 1st Class

Red Eagle Order, 1st Class with Oak Leaves

Repetition Clasp 1914 to the Iron Cross 1870, 2nd Class

Iron Cross (1914), 1st Class

Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves

... Pour le Mérite on 4 October 1916

... Oak Leaves on 6 August 1918

Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 with Swords

 

 

 

Edited October 12 by Deutschritter