Schutztruppe Officers DOA
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Schutztruppe Officers DOA
Does anyone have more information or sresource for more information on one legged Leutnant Wenig from the SMS Koenigsberg who joined the Schutztruppe with the rest of the crew? And also on Major Kraut who V. Lettow-Vorbeck considered his best bushfighter? T.
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Here is Major Kraut.......
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Vielen Dank. T.
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Oberleutnant zur See Richard Wenig had been a gunnery officer on the SMS Königsberg. When the crew of the Königsberg were incorporated into the Schutztruppe Wenig went on to command von Lettow-Vorbeck's artillery including the now land based guns from the Königsberg. Wenig lost his left foot in action around the Rufiji Delta but continued in service right up to the end of the war (being one of the last 30 officers to surrender in November 1918) with a prosthetic foot he made himself. After the war Wenig wrote a book called "Kriegs-Safari" based on his experiences during the war in East Africa.
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Does anyone have more information or sresource for more information on one legged Leutnant Wenig from the SMS Koenigsberg who joined the Schutztruppe with the rest of the crew?
Attached two photos with him, from one of his books.
You will find another two photos in Portugal-East-Africa from Richard Wenig.
On both photos he is shown on the left side:
http://www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankf ... frame.html
CD/7255/3192/2219/7255_3192_2219_0043
CD/7255/3192/2219/7255_3192_2219_0041
(Copy the nomber of the CD-code inside by “Volltext”, and then click by “Suchen”)
Greetings Holger
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. . . . All History was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984
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Lt. z.S. Wenig (Richard) . . . ,,Königsberg´´;
11.7.1915 schw.verw. Rufidji-Mündung;
Oblt.z.S.(22.3.16); Aug. 1917 Fhr. 5. Art.Abt.;
März 1917 Adj.Kdo.; 28.10.1917 Fhr. 4.Battr.;
12.5.1918 Fhr. 2. Battr. Bis zum Waffenstillstand am 14.11.1918. . . .
This lines (and more about Richard Wenig) was from the brochure:
Das Offizierkorps der Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918
W.-E. Maillard + J. Schröder , http://www.traditionsverband.de by , Warenangebot für € 8,-
Traditionsverband. Ehem. Schutz – und Überseetruppen e.V., Band 10, Schröder Druck & Design, Walsrode 2003.
Greetings Holger
11.7.1915 schw.verw. Rufidji-Mündung;
Oblt.z.S.(22.3.16); Aug. 1917 Fhr. 5. Art.Abt.;
März 1917 Adj.Kdo.; 28.10.1917 Fhr. 4.Battr.;
12.5.1918 Fhr. 2. Battr. Bis zum Waffenstillstand am 14.11.1918. . . .
This lines (and more about Richard Wenig) was from the brochure:
Das Offizierkorps der Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918
W.-E. Maillard + J. Schröder , http://www.traditionsverband.de by , Warenangebot für € 8,-
Traditionsverband. Ehem. Schutz – und Überseetruppen e.V., Band 10, Schröder Druck & Design, Walsrode 2003.
Greetings Holger
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. . . . All History was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984