Marine Korps EK docs
Hi Rick,
Any info on this guy in your magic box....
And a Later doc..
Any info on this guy in your magic box....
And a Later doc..
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Also in the group is the EK2 doc and the Frontkaempfer cross, issued 1935 in Dusseldorf and he is listed as Kreisarzt.
A NSDAP connection in some way is not to be excluded. -
Dr.med. Ernst Fu"rth was born 16 May 1880, and served in the navy 1.4.1901-25.12.1918.
Highest rank was Marine-Oberstabsarzt ("Major") 15 February 1918.
In 1914 he was at the University of Berlin as a Marine-Stabsarzt (14.6.1910) with no awards. He had been promoted to Mar,-Oberassistenzarzt 11.5.1907 B, and was originally commissioned as a Mar.-Assistenzarzt apparently in the latter half of 1905 (not in my May 1905 issue MRL).
As of February 1918, he also had the Hamburg Hanseatic Cross.
He was Ship's Physician of "Schwaben" until September 1914, then Korpshygieniker of Marinekorps Flandern (and an assistant to the Garrison Physician at Kiel with no time differentiation listed) until February 1918.
Senior Physician of 1st Matrosen Division (this was home base, not a wartime field unit) to May 1918, then Division Physician of 1st Torpedo Division (again, home establishment training etc) until his resignation. He should have been entitled to the XXV Years Service Cross (WWI and pre-war sea service outside home waters counted double), but since he departed precipitously, he may never have received it! That also probably explains his late wound badge award for WWI-- I have yet to see a naval one's award document from before the 1930s!
Married after 1913, no info on his wife.
He was a civil service physician for the city of Du"sseldorf: in 1931 a Kreisarzt "fu'r den Stadtkreis Du"sseldorf," but was "Regierungs-und Medizinalrat bei der Regierung in Du"sseldorf" by 1935, and in 1937. Dead by 1960--or at least no longer a member of the naval officers' association (Membership # 4570 in the M.O.V. before WW2.)
Home address there Benloerstrasse 41, Tel 32960.
His document was signed by Gustav von Stosch, born 1876, discharged 1920 as char. Kapita"n zur See. Von Stosch was in these sort of staff adjutant positions all through the war.
[ 02 January 2002: Message edited by: Rick Lundstrom ]Comment
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