Reichswehr-Offizierskorps 1923

[askropp]

I'm trying to compile a list of the officers in StB 1923, the first complete StB of the Reichswehr. Naturally, there are still many gaps to fill especially with regard to the lower ranking officers. I begin with A. Who has Vornamen or dates of life?

Leutnant 01.09.15 ACKERMANN (IR 95 --> IR 15) Hauptmann (01.10.29)
Hauptmann 18.04.16 AFHELDT Werner 1887-? (IR 128 --> IR 4) Oberst (01.03.36)
Leutnant 01.10.21 AHRENS (AR 6) Oberleutnant (01.10.26)
Hauptmann 18.04.17 AICHMAYR (FAR 33 --> AR 6)
Oberleutnant 20.05.17 ALBRECHT (FAR 17 --> AR 2)
Hauptmann 08.10.14 ALTHAUS (GR 1 --> RWM / Inspektion für WuG) Oberstleutnant (01.02.30)
Oberleutnant beim Zeugamt 25.02.15 ALTHÖFT (Pr ZeugOffz --> AR 6) Char. Hauptmann
Leutnant 20.10.14 AMBS (RR 17) Oberleutnant (01.05.24)
Leutnant 01.05.22 AMME ?-02.06.1926 (RR 1)
Leutnant 20.10.14 AMOS (AR 7)
Leutnant 01.06.22 ANGER (IR 1)
Hauptmann 24.07.15 ANSCHÜTZ (IR 57 --> IR 16)
Leutnant 01.02.16 ARENDT (IR 146 --> IR 2) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)
Leutnant 01.01.17 ARENDT (IR 148 --> IR 1) Char. Oberleutnant
Leutnant 01.08.18 ARENS (GR 1 --> PiBtl 5) Oberleutnant (01.10.25)
Char. Major 05.02.23 ARNDT (IR 111 --> HFriko) Major (01.02.23)
Oberleutnant 20.06.18 ASTER Rudolf ?-10.07.1927 (SR 108 --> IR 11) Hauptmann (01.03.27)
Leutnant 01.09.15 AUDEBERT (Bay 2. FußAR --> AR 7) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)
Leutnant 01.09.15 AUST (FußAR 6 --> AR 6) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)
Hauptmann 18.04.17 AUSTMANN (FußAR 13 --> KfAbt 5) Major (01.04.30)

[LuckyStrike23]

I always use the old adress books. Here for example the first man - there was an Hanns Ackermann in Eisenach (8./I.R.15) in 1924, that must be him, With the first name one can mostly find out more. In this case however difficult. There were several Hanns Ackermanns and I dont find any relation to an officer.

[abaus]

Here are a few:

Leutnant 01.09.15 ACKERMANN (IR 95 --> IR 15) Hauptmann (01.10.29) Hans 23.09.1894

Hauptmann 18.04.17 AICHMAYR (FAR 33 --> AR 6) Josef Georg Julius Ernst

Oberleutnant 20.05.17 ALBRECHT (FAR 17 --> AR 2) HANS GEORG 22.06.1892

Hauptmann 08.10.14 ALTHAUS (GR 1 --> RWM / Inspektion für WuG) Oberstleutnant (01.02.30) Otto 28.07.1881

Leutnant 20.10.14 AMBS (RR 17) Oberleutnant (01.05.24) Lambert 18.07.1892-07.10.1969

Leutnant 01.05.22 AMME ?-02.06.1926 (RR 1) Kurt ??-00.05.1926)

Leutnant 20.10.14 AMOS (AR 7) Ernst 20.02.1890

Hauptmann 24.07.15 ANSCHÜTZ (IR 57 --> IR 16) Willy 27.06.1886

Char. Major 05.02.23 ARNDT (IR 111 --> HFriko) Major (01.02.23) Benno 04.06.1880

Oberleutnant 20.06.18 ASTER Rudolf ?-10.07.1927 (SR 108 --> IR 11) Hauptmann (01.03.27) Rudolf 03.02.1893-10.07.1927

Leutnant 01.09.15 AUDEBERT (Bay 2 FußAR --> AR 7) Oberleutnant (01.04.25) Rudolf 04.02.1896

Hauptmann 18.04.17 AUSTMANN (FußAR 13 --> KfAbt 5) Major (01.04.30) Herbert 08.04.1886

[askropp]

Thank you very much!

So Ackermann is SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Johannes Ackermann (possibly promoted later). He is also listed as Major at BA-MA, so he either got the Charakter when he was retired or he served as z.V.-Offizier in WW2.

I'm reasonably sure about the death date of Kurt Amme because it is had been added in handwriting to the DAL 1926 from NARA.

[askropp]

The next batch:

Leutnant 01.03.20 BACH (IR 136 --> RR 16) Oberleutnant (01.02.26)
Hauptmann beim Zeugamt 08.10.14 BACHERT ?-13.11.1924 (Art Prüf Komm --> RWM / Insp f WuG)
Hauptmann 08.11.14 BAECK (2. Ing Insp --> IR 17) Major (01.06.25)
Oberleutnant 27.01.17 BALAN (GR 6 --> IR 9) Hauptmann (01.05.24)
Oberstleutnant 01.04.23 BANKE (FußAR 11 --> Kdtr v Breslau)
Hauptmann 08.10.14 BARDT Richard (IR 18 --> IR 3) Oberstleutnant (01.10.29)
Leutnant 01.09.17 von BARNEKOW Raven (GRzPf 3 --> RR 6) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)
Oberleutnant 18.09.16 BARTH (IR 11) Hauptmann (01.11.23)
Leutnant 11.04.15 BARTMANN (IR 14 --> IR 4) Oberleutnant (01.01.25)
Hauptmann 01.07.21 BAUER Otto (IR 104 --> IR 11)
Leutnant 01.09.15 BAUER Otto (Bay 8. IR --> IR 21) Hauptmann (01.12.30)
Leutnant 01.07.16 BAUER ?-192x (FußAR 18 --> AR 5) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)
Major 18.05.20 BAUMANN (Bay 11. IR --> GenSt 7. Division) Oberstleutnant (01.02.26)
Hauptmann 08.11.14 BAUMBACH (FAR 12 --> AR 4) Oberstleutnant (01.03.30)
Oberleutnant 18.08.17 BAUMBACH (FußAR 2 --> AR 2) Hauptmann (01.05.25)
Oberleutnant 20.06.18 BAUMGART Ernst 1886-01.05.1980 (IR 8) Oberst (01.04.40)
Leutnant 01.09.15 BAUMGART (FußAR 6 --> AR 3) Oberleutnant (01.03.25)

[LuckyStrike23]

The last Baumgart is Herbert, Dipl.Ing., transferred to the new Panzertruppe in the early 1930, and fell as Abteilung commander PzRgt.3 in Poland 1939 (28.09.1893-08.09.1939).

[askropp]

Thank you, so he was not retired but in the Soviet Union when he disappeared from the DAL. There may be similar cases.

Another problem may be field officers who ended up in the Luftwaffe.

[LuckyStrike23]

Indeed. He is listed as a Dipl.Ing. in 3. Art.Rgt. in 1929 and then "dissapeares" until 1934, where he is listed in Kraftfahr-Lehr-Kommando I Zossen.

[Dave Danner]

Barth, Max Hugo
*28.3.1887

Dienstzeit im sächsischen Heer und Reichsheer: 01.04.1904-30.11.1925

01.04.1913 Vizefeldwebel
02.09.1918 Feldwebelleutnant
24.07.1919 Leutnant
15.01.1921 Oberleutnant mit RDA vom 18.09.1916
01.11.1923 Hauptmann
xx.xx.193x Hauptmann (E) mit RDA vom 01.01.1935
01.09.1935 Major (E)
01.08.1943 Oberstleutnant

[askropp]

Thank you, Dave. Do you happen to have the DoB of Werner Afheldt and Ernst Baumgart?

[Dave Danner]

Afheldt, Werner Otto Alfred, *15.02.1887 in Naseband

Baumgart, Ernst Gustav Robert, *30.04.1886. Baumgart was a career NCO, entering GR 7 on 13.10.1905. He was promoted to Leutnant on 30.08.1919 and Oberleutnant on 15.01.1921 with the predated RDA above. He was a recipient of the Prussian goldenes Militärverdienstkreuz, the so-called "Pour le Mérite für Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften".

[Dave Danner]

Leutnant 01.09.17 von BARNEKOW Raven (GRzPf 3 --> RR 6) Oberleutnant (01.04.25)

Barnekow, Raven Alfred Edmund von
*07.03.1898 in Bromberg
†08.03.1939 in Wiesbaden
- listed as a Rittmeister a.D. in Aachen in the Wiesbaden Sterberegister.

[Dave Danner]

Bachert
-The only Hptm. Bachert in the 1923 Berlin address book was Hermann.

Baeck, Leonhard Georg Richard Ekkehard
*24.08.1881 in Breslau
†04.10.1959 in Hamburg
- He is listed as an Oberstleutnant a.D. at the time of his second marriage in 1932, as an Oberst in his son's HPA file, and as an Oberst a.D. in the 1950s Hamburg address books. I would assume an Oberst z.V.?

Banke, Otto Heinrich Franz
*03.01.1876 in Thorn
†03.06.1949 in Berlin-Friedenau
Oberst a.D.

Bardt, Richard
*02.12.1879 in Frankfurt a.d. Oder

Baumann, Otto Eugen
*25.02.1879 in Neu-Ulm

[askropp]

Thanks for your continuing help.

listed as a Rittmeister a.D.

Oberst a.D.

Obviously they got the Charakter when they retired (just as Baeck, who later got the usual z.V. promotion).

The only Hptm. Bachert in the 1923 Berlin address book was Hermann.

He was killed when his car collided with a railroad engine at Kummersdorf.

[Dave Danner]

The Saxon Hauptmann Otto Bauer was born on 07.11.1886 in Recklinghausen.

The Bavarian Leutnant Otto Bauer was born on 28.05.1896 in Schweinfurt.

Hauptmann 08.11.14 BAUMBACH (FAR 12 --> AR 4) Oberstleutnant (01.03.30)

Baumbach, Paul Walter
*30.03.1882 in Waldenburg, Glauchau
†03.02.1933 in Dresden-Albertstadt
Oberst, Kommandant von Königsbrück
- I assume the promotion to Oberst was between the May 1932 rank list publication and his February 1933 death, but I have not dug through the MWB.

Oberleutnant 18.08.17 BAUMBACH (FußAR 2 --> AR 2) Hauptmann (01.05.25)

Baumbach, Otto Max Wilhelm
*11.01.1892 in Berlin
- He was only in FußAR 2 until early 1915. He spent the bulk of the war as a Marine-Flieger. A 1933 divorce notation in the 1918 Gießen marriage register lists him as a Major a.D.