Pour le mérite holders

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Re: Pour le mérite holders

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Post by Deruelle » 13 Jul 2011, 00:59

Hi,

Another group of officers with Pour le mérite order

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Post by Peter H » 14 Jul 2011, 11:43

Nice pics,thanks.


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Re: Pour le mérite holders

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Post by Elwyn W » 15 Jul 2011, 04:45

Hi Christophe,

I am pretty sure about Hans v Kirchbach. He was much thinner in his old age and almost always wore glasses then. My only problem is he didn't seem to be wearing a Sachsen helmut. But did high ranking Kaiseriche generals not wear Sachsen helmuts?

PS from your own enlargement, not from here, obviosuly


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Re: Pour le mérite holders

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Post by Deruelle » 16 Jul 2011, 02:34

Many thanks for id this officer.

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Post by Deruelle » 16 Jul 2011, 02:38

Hi,

Again a new photo. It's an interresting one with a lot of officers. Enjoy

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Post by Deruelle » 16 Jul 2011, 02:40

Close up and we find Oberst Gruson from IR 72 (second officer with helmet)

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Post by Deruelle » 16 Jul 2011, 02:42

About some others officers, I'm not sure they wore Pour le Mérite, but to be sure I decide to post photos

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Post by Deruelle » 16 Jul 2011, 02:43

This face is for me known but I can't remember where I see him.
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Post by Requin Marteau » 09 Sep 2011, 12:43

Bonjour,

Who is this PLM Officer ?
I Think General Hoerfer.

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Post by Elwyn W » 11 Sep 2011, 06:12

Yes. I second him being Karl Hoefer. According to Biblio Verlag, he was Führer to his Freikorps outfit Oberschlesischen Selbstschutzes. Hence all the Silesian Eagles (I spotted 4) his troops were wearing.

And here is Walter Schulz

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sch ... tleutnant)

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Post by Requin Marteau » 11 Sep 2011, 09:38

Bonjour,

Two PLM Holders.


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Post by Elwyn W » 11 Sep 2011, 15:36

Nice. There were two PLM Ernst v Oven. This one was Char als Gen d Inf Ernst v Oven.

The other was of course Oskar v Hutier.

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 14 Oct 2011, 18:58

Bij de parades in Halle en de von Moltke-herdenking (een Duits veldmaarschalk die overleed in 1891) van het Duitse leger waren ook aanwezig Rijksminister, prins Oscar van Pruisen (1) en generaal Ludendorf(2). Halle, 1924.
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Post by VJK » 28 Oct 2011, 14:29

Hi,

Does anyone please have a full list of the awards held by Ernst von Oven (Char. GdI) and Arnold Lequis?

Many thanks in advance,

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Post by AlifRafikKhan » 26 Dec 2011, 23:01

General der Kavallerie Otto Wladislaus Eduard Konstantin von Garnier. Received Pour le Mérite on 12 October 1916...

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