LW Generalleutnant signature help

[Gran Sasso]

Found this doc today at a fleamarket - who signed that one?

[hucks216]

Rudolf Bogatsch

[Gerdan]

I think it is the signature of "Rudolf Bogatsch"

http://www.oocities.org/~orion47/WEH...CH_RUDOLF.html

Gerdan

[hucks216]

Here is one from my collection signed the same year...

[Gran Sasso]

Thanks - here is the full doc:

[hucks216]

It is a pity that the recipients forename is missing as there is a Josef Hörmann listed as winning the Ehrenpokal on 29th June 1942 as a Leutnant (pilot)

[Gran Sasso]

It is a pity that the recipients forename is missing as there is a Josef Hörmann listed as winning the Ehrenpokal on 29th June 1942 as a Leutnant (pilot)

Is there no statement when he won the EKII?

I wonder anyway why somebody had been awarded the EKKII in march 1940 - there was no (ground-) fighting as far as I know. So a good chance IMO he might been a pilot?

[hucks216]

While there was no ground fighting in March 1940 there were still aerial activities over the Western Front with reconnaisance aircraft crossing the borders so maybe it is linked to something that happened with one of those type of sorties or it may just of been a very late award for something that happened in the Polish campaign in 1939. From what i can figure out from http://www.ww2.dk/air/recon/aufklg22.html the unit was equipped with Do-17's around this period.