General Hoefer

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Hi everybody,

Have a look of my new photography. General Hoefer, who has got more info about him.

Regards

Christophe

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for specialist and for fun a cle up of the riibon bar

Christophe

[Guest Rick Research]

Karl Julius Robert Hoefer (1862-1939)

SekLt 13.9.83

PremLt

Hptm (can't tell without awards, first names)

Major 27.1.06 Yy II/Inf Rgt 58 '12

Oberstleutnant 1.10.13 Vv Staff Inf Rgt 129

Oberst 5.9.14 commanding a Landwehr (!) Inf Rgt

Generalmajor 25.2.18 C

char. Generalleutnant aD 3.2.21

RIBBON BAR =

EK2 1914

HHOX (gazetted 31.8.15 "Oberst commanding a landwehr Infantry Regiment")

RED EAGLE 3X WITH BOW not repeat not repeat not a colonial award not repeat not repeat not the "usual" freak rear area semi-retiree award-- gazetted 5.6.15 and replacing a plain old peacetime 4th class!!!!!!!!

Prussian Crown Order 3

Prussian XXV

Southwest Africa Medal (must be steel)

1897

Hamburg Hanseatic

?M3K

PINBACK--

EK1

Saxe-Coburg Carl Eduard War Cross (!!!)

SILVER WOUND BADGE

Pour le Merite 23.9.16

OAKLEAVES to that 14.4.18

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[Guest Rick Research]

What is THAT from? Sure enough, in the 1937 SS Seniority List.

He looks like a ferocious Crown Prince Rupprecht.

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Many thanks for your help.

Regards

Christophe

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thumbing through old magazines (Die Woche: Moderne illustrierte Zeitschrift) I found this nice picture of Generalleutnant Hoefer.