PEEBLES PROFILES

EARLY YEARSMax Stapff was born in Viesebach bei Altenburg on September 7, 1870, five days after the decisive Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War. Stapff entered the Prussian Army…

THE LAWYERAlbert Hermann Heinrich Schnee was born in Neuhaldensleben on February 4, 1871, just weeks after the rise of the Second Reich. He was the son of District Court Councilor…

Emil Eduard Karl Ilse was born in Kempfeld on March 14, 1864. Exactly one month after his nineteenth birthday, he joined the Prussian Army’s Lower Saxony Foot Artillery Regiment Number…

RISING THROUGH THE RANKSEwald Konstantin Ferdinand Friedrich von Lochow was born in Petkus (located in Prussian Brandenburg) on April 1, 1855. Three weeks after turning eighteen, he joined the Second…

EPISODE 138 Heinrich Gontermann THE SOLDIER Born in the southern Westphalian city of Siegen on February 25, 1896, Heinrich Gontermann grew into a tall slender man who abstained from smoking.…

Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Mathy achieved rare accolades during the Great War. He was one of the very few Germans whose name was a household word in Britain. During the "zeppelin scourge"…

Robert Paul Theodor von Kosch was born in the Prussian Silesian town of Glatz (now Kłodzko, Poland) on April 5, 1856. The son of Hermann and Agnes Kosch, Robert was…

Oskar Philipp von Chelius was born in Mannheim (then part of the Grand Duchy of Baden) on July 28, 1859. He was the eldest son of Ernst Philipp von Chelius…

EPISODE 130 Otto Ritter von Dandl Otto Ritter von Dandl was born in Straubing (located in Lower Bavaria) on May 13, 1868, the son of Georg Ritter von Dandl and…