Hohenzollern Ausweis

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Hi,

I have bought several months ago this group including ribbon bar and some papers of Hauptmann Ritzert. Have a look of the "Ausweis".

Regards

Christophe

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Ritzert's ribbon bar

Christophe

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The reverse

[Guest Rick Research]

This is the only "field notification" I have ever seen!!!!

Ritsert's HHOX was only gazetted in the Milit?rwochenblatt issue of 12 November 1918-- indicating a typical delay--

and the reason so many of the late ones were never published at all.

Ritsert was commissioned

Leutnant 18.8.04 B3b in Fussart Regt 9 1912

Oberleutnant 18.8.13 E5e in Fussart Regt 16 1914

Hauptmann 25.2.15 G4g

Honor Rank List shows as char. major aD from Fussart Regt 16

In January 1939 he was

Major (E) 1.6.32 #94 on staff Wehrersatz Inspektion Weimar

Not in the 1944 Seniority List, so presumably dead by then.

[W McSwiggan]

This is the only "field notification" I have ever seen!!!!

Ritsert's HHOX was only gazetted in the Milit?rwochenblatt issue of 12 November 1918-- indicating a typical delay--

and the reason so many of the late ones were never published at all.

Ritsert was commissioned

Leutnant 18.8.04 B3b in Fussart Regt 9 1912

Oberleutnant 18.8.13 E5e in Fussart Regt 16 1914

Hauptmann 25.2.15 G4g

Honor Rank List shows as char. major aD from Fussart Regt 16

In January 1939 he was

Major (E) 1.6.32 #94 on staff Wehrersatz Inspektion Weimar

Not in the 1944 Seniority List, so presumably dead by then.

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OK - I'll bite - more questions...

what do "B3b" "E5e" & "G4g" mean??? Tried but I'll be derned if I can noodle them out!

Some how - I just know I'm going to feel pretty dumb when I hear the answer...

BTW - were these units Prussian?

Edited May 31, 2005 by W McSwiggan

[Guest Rick Research]

Those are just the SENIORITY within same rank on same date designations. The Bavarians used a simple, logical, easy numbered system, 1,2,3... 467, 468

while the Prussians went in for A-Z, Aa-Zz and eventually to such lengths as Y37y during the war for Leutnants in the hundreds.

Pay no attention to the clutter after rank dates. It is only to help find them in Seniority Lists. (Occasionally one encounters the LONE person promoted in a rank on that day-- and then NO suffix xlutter at all!)

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