Famous People of the Weimar Republic, Bios and Images please

[Mikael]

Now i have done the final design, just finishing up some of my sections. ALL Is going very well, but there are certain individuals i want listed in Bios but i cannot find any info about.

1.Matthias Erzberger
2.Lossow
3. Seisser
4. Captain Wilhelm Daser

There are also those i haev info about, but only extremlt bad quality images of, And that is basicly only Gustav Noske. WHY is there no good images of him, perhaps someone here has it (pointing at Moulded)

[martyn powell]

Hi Mikael

Photo of Gustav Noske-

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/f52_2555/index.html

Martyn

[Peter H]

Noske and Luttwitz:

[Peter H]

Details and photo of Erzberger,murdered by Freikorps members 1921:

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/ ... rMatthias/


Otto von Lossow,but no photo:

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/ ... index.html

Lossow was an Oberst in the German Military Mission to Turkey 1915-18.
He intially commanded the Deutsch Georgian Expeditionary force in 1918 but was replaced by Kress von Kressenstein.Lossow was considered too close to the Ottomans to perform his function well and independently.

Hans Ritter von Seisser(1874-1973) was said to have fled Germany in 1933 but this link suggests he was running a packaging company in Bavaria:

http://www.goetz-brand.de/porte.htm

[Peter H]

Is this the same Wilhelm Daser?The Bavarian connection is there:

http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/heer-bios-daser.htm

[Glenn2438]

Hi Mikael,

Hans Seißer was born on the 9th of December 1874 at Würzburg. After graduating from the Bavarian Cadet Corps on the 9th of July 1893 he was appointed as a Fähnrich in the 2nd Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment. Commissioned as a Leutnant on the 4th of March 1895 he was transferred to the 11th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment on the 13th of September 1901.

From the 1st of October 1902 he attended a three year course at the Kriegsakademie (General Staff College) and was promoted to Oberleutnant on the 18th of April 1903. Assigned as the Adjutant of the 4th Bavarian Field Artillery Brigade on the 19th of May 1906 he was returned to the 11th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment on the 1st of October 1907 and attached to the Headqurters of the Bavarian General Staff in Munich for two years. Promoted to Hauptmann on the 25th of August 1908 he was assigned for a further two year assignment to the Headquarters of the Prussian General Staff on the 1st of October 1909. He was a battery commander in the 6th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment from 1 October 1911 to 1 October 1913 when he was assigned to the General Staff of the 4th Bavarian Division.

Promoted to Major on the 7th of Jan 1914, he became the Ia of Generalkommando z.b.V. 63 on the 2nd of Jan 1917 and the Ia of the 1st Army on the 11th of April 1917. His final wartime appointment was as chief of staff of the 2nd Bavarian Army Corps from the 18th of April 1918.

Having been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order on the 26 September 1914 he was elevated to the nobility with the title Ritter von. He left the army as a Charakter (brevet) Oberstleutnant on the 16th of September 1920. He entered the Bavarian Landespolizei on the 1st of October 1919 in which he served until retiring as an Oberst on the 31st of January 1930. He briefly was the Police President of Munich from May until August 1945. He died on the 14th of April 1973.

Regards
Glenn

[Glenn2438]

Otto von Lossow's promotions:

Leutnant: 9 Mar 1888
Oberleutnant: 20 Jun 1896
Hauptmann: 28 Oct 1902
Major: 7 Mar 1909
Oberstleutnant: 1 Oct 1913
Oberst: 30 Nov 1914
Generalmajor: 14 Dec 1917
Generalleutnant: 1 Jul 1921

Regards
Glenn

[Mikael]

THank you all, i will process this info and in the mean while i also desire good info on Goltz and Fletcher, the main figures of the baltic involvement of the freikorps.

[Mikael]

Seisser and Lossow was, in my text atleast, very important figures during the Beer Hall Putsch, them and Kahr are even mentioned as the "Triumvirate". But still there is nothing mentioned in the texts you supply with.. Why is that?? can anyone inform me a little more, what positions did they have during that time ?.

[Peter H]

The 'Triumvirate':

The Bavarian government’s leaders were scornful of the Berlin government, and were themselves plotting the formation of a new nationalist dictatorship in Berlin. Three men controlled the government of Bavaria: Otto von Lossow, head of the Bavarian army; Gustav Ritter von Kahr, General State Commissar; and Hans Ritter von Seisser, the Bavarian police chief. These men sympathized with many of Hitler’s views but did not like some of his radical ideas.

On the evening of November 8, 1923, the Putsch began at the Bürgerbräukeller, where a large group of prominent Bavarians had gathered, among them Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser, as well as Hitler and Erich Ludendorff. The former army general quartermaster, Ludendorff was the man who was mainly responsible for Germany's military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.

For half an hour, Kahr had been reading a prepared speech to the crowd of 3,000 packed into the Burgerbräukeller, when Hitler made his grand entrance. A clutch of men in steel helmets, Hitler’s storm troopers, appeared, and pushed in a heavy machine gun. Hitler materialized, accompanied by two armed bodyguards brandishing pistols. Hitler stood on a chair, and, drowned out by the tumult, he pulled out his Browning automatic pistol and fired a shot through the ceiling.

Hitler announced that the revolution had broken out and six hundred armed men surrounded the hall. The Bavarian government was deposed, he shouted, and he would form a provisional Reich government. He requested Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser to follow him into an adjoining room. Reluctantly they complied.Pandemonium reigned, but Hermann Göring, a former World War I flying ace and Hitler’s ally, urged everyone to be calm. “You’ve got your beer,” he said (Kershaw, 1998).

Waving his pistol in the next room, Hitler shouted that no one would leave without his permission. He proclaimed the formation of a new government, himself at the head. Ludendorff, Lossow, Seisser, and Kahr all agreed to be important members. If things did not work out, Hitler declared that he had bullets in his pistol for his collaborators and himself.

Things definitely did not work out. Lossow, Seisser, and Kahr, tepid revolutionaries from the outset, left the hall and proceeded to inform state authorities that they repudiated the putsch.

http://stevenlehrer.com/beerhall_putsch.htm

[Gwynn Compton]

http://www.thirdreichforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=12115

You'll find this thread has a lot of useful information regarding the Baltic Freikorps, and Goltz's "Iron" Division.

Hopefully in about a months time, I'll begin trying to compile some information from it.

Gwynn

[VJK]

Hi Mikael!

Here is a pic of Wilhelm Daser (if he is the one Moulded referred to in his post), the later Generalleutnant.

Regards,

VJK

[Mikael]

Absolutely WONDERFULL.
Do you have any more info on him. Where did you get that image ? I am curious Daser played a major role in the Beer Hall putsch so

[VJK]

Hi Mikael!

I got the picture from Gareth Collins site: http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/cuchulainn2003

Unfortunately I don't have any more info on Daser other than that which appears on the site posted by Moulded.

Regards,

VJK

[Mikael]

VJK check your PM box.