Officer Medal Group

[mravery]

Bio

Well...

If you guys wanted a bio... why didn't you ask

All you wanted before was a picture

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Bio

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The end

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Page three !!!!

[Rick Research]

You'd think THEY could tell us WHERE the Feldkdos were!!!

No notice of his Ehrenblattspange though. Keilig mentioned it, and he's confirmed in the List I cited.

[mravery]

Ok Rick,

What is a Ehrenblattspange?

If it's an order or medal..... this series only mentions the high end stuff like PLM, HOLLZ, RK, DK... no mention of any of the IC classes or less...

Cheers
M

[Rick Research]

Each branch of the Wehrmacht had its own design: worn on the BUTTONHOLE RIBBON ONLY of the 1939 EK2 (it was worn this way even in full dress, NEVER on the EK2 ribbon on the medal bar, never on a pre-1957 ribbon bar, and REPLACING the 1914 EK2 with Spange he is wearing in the Biblio portrait as Oberst, FROM THE BUTTONHOLE. In 1957+ he could have worn his Spange on the 1914 EK2 with medal bar awards, but would still have worn the M1957 EBS on '39 EK ribbon from BUTTONHOLE) this is what the Army Ehrenblattspange looked like:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...79&postcount=4

This is a "Mention In Dispatches" at military branch (army & waffen-SS, navy, air force) service level.

[mravery]

Ok.......


I knew it as the "Honor Role Clasp".... not as Ehrenblattspange (me.. just a dumb American trying to put everything in English)

Interesting.. as I'm not that familliar with that many General's that were awarded the Honor Clasp...

Cheers
Mark

[Frosch]

Feldkommandantur 580 and 240

But he then went straight into occupation commandant slots (I wish there was a list of where these numbers WERE! )

According to Tessin:

Feldkommandantur 580
Raised 1 August 1939 in Soest, Wehrkreis VI, as an excercise unit; 1 September 1939 mobile in Armeepaket (not come across that term before) "L", now Wehrkreis II.
Assigned to 4. Armee Pommerania, West Prussia; 25 September 1939 Militär-Befehlshaber Danzig-Westpreussen; 26 November 1939 in Wehrkreis I; 7 February 1940 Heeresgruppe B (OFK 592, 591); 9 July 1940 Militär-Befehlshaber France, Verwendungs-Bezirk (utilization district) A in Amiens, Dept. Somme; (next reference is for 1944/45)

Feldkommandantur 240
Raised 17 July 1941 in Wehrkreis X; deployed in Dnjepropetrowsk (Heeres-Gebiet Süd); 16 December 1941 at the same time Korück Pz.AOK 1; 5 March 1942 became Feldkommandantur 240 again and renamed Standort-Kommandantur Stalino 12 May 1942.

The time he spent with Feldkommandantur 580 in the Somme area must have brought back some memories, as he probably saw action there in August 1916 with Grenadier-Regiment 119.

/David

[Rick Research]

THAT'S a relevation! I always thought Feldkommandanturen were "Ortsfeste" and did not realize that they MOVED!

[mravery]

1930 Rangliste

Also... the 1930 Rangliste... shows a Black Wound badge and an IC 1st...

Cheers
M

[Bobby lee]

Boys you have done well. For an old fellow with little other than a 1914 rank list on personal info, you have well researched General von Alberti. Many thanks especially to Mark, Rick and Frosch.

[Rick Research]

When it works, like all magic, it seems easy. When it doesn't... the gnashing and lamentations Ceaseth Not!

Data is cascading in on the extremely weird von Einem set...

will it be a Three-For weekend with Robert's "African" Austrian?

We're on a roll, the moon is full... something.

But mostly what it takes is the network of people who gather here, each with a piece of somebody's puzzle.

Maybe this "Internet" thing will work out.