PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 219Friedrich NolteniusFROM MEDICINE TO WARFriedrich Theodor Noltenius was born in Bremen on January 8, 1894, the son of a professor of medicine. After graduated from high school in…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 217Horst von der GoltzHe was born in 1884 Koblenz with the name Franz Wachendorf. At the age of sixteen, he was deported from Brussels back to Imperial Germany.…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 218Richard von PawelszEARLY YEARSRichard Wilhelm Heinrich von Pawelsz was born in Stade (in Lower Saxony) on December 7 , 1872, the son of a Prussian colonel. After attending…
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PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 215Edmund NathanaelEdmund Nathanael was born in Dielsdorf on December 18, 1889.Little is known if Nathanael first served in a ground unit when the Great War began. It was…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 214Hermann von der Lieth-ThomsenPRE-WAR YEARSBorn Hermann Thomsen in Flensburg (recently lost by the Danish crown and incorporated into Prussia) on March 10, 1867, he was part of a…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 213Albert von BerrerMILITARY RISEAlbert von Berrer was born on September 8, 1857 in Unterkochen, located in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Nearly a week after his 17th birthday, Berrer…
PEEBLES PROFILESEPISODE 212Alexander ZenzesAlexander Montanus Zenzes was born in the Saxon town of Chemnitz on July 10, 1898.His name first appeared on the rolls of Marine Flieger Jagdstaffel II. Flying…
RISING THROUGH THE RANKSBorn in the West Prussian town of Graudenz on April 16, 1855, Julius Friedrich Riemann studied philosophy at the University of Berlin. At twenty-one, he entered the…
SOLDIER TURNED PILOT Hans Bethge was born in Berlin on December 6, 1890, the second son of Leutnant Wilhelm Bethge. Young Hans was raised in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. In…