Wehrmacht Briefing

An officer of the Wehrmacht gives speech in front of his soldiers, who gathered in the mountain slope. No information about place or date.

Source :
Personal collection

Bio of Major Paul Block

Paul Block

Date of Birth: 16.05.1915 - Pommern (German Empire)
Date of Death: unknown

Religion: Evangelist
Father: Eduard Block (priest)
Mother: Frieda Schmidt
Wife: Gisela Leistikow (born 25.09.1921)
Children: Two sons (born in 13.11.1932 and 03.11.1942)

Promotions:
20.04.1936 Leutnant, RDA 01.04.1936 (850)
31.03.1939 Oberleutnant, RDA 01.04.1939 (129)
15.02.1942 Hauptmann, RDA 01.03.1942 (105)
01.03.1944 Major (19a)

Career:
04.06.1934 Entered Infanterie-Regiment 4
16.06.1934 Sworn-in
06.10.1936 Member of II.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 94
26.08.1939 - 27.09.1941 Chef 12.Kompanie / III.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 94
28.09.1941 - 11.06.1942 Chef MG-Kompanie / Infanterie-Regiment 94
15.06.1942 - 19.01.1943 Inspektionschef Schule V für Offiziersanwärter der Infanterie
20.01.1943 - 28.02.1943 Führerreserve OKH
01.03.1943 - 24.03.1943 Stabsoffizier 321. Infanterie-Division
25.03.1943 - 09.11.1943 Adjutant 321. Infanterie-Division
10.11.1943 - 09.12.1943 Führerreserve OKH
10.12.1943 Adjutant 352. Infanterie-Division

Awards and Decorations:
03.10.1939 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse
19.08.1941 Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse
15.12.1941 Infanterie-Sturmabzeichen in Silber

LINK DOCUMENT FILE IN THE GENERALKARTEI

Source:
Bundesarchiv

Fremde Heere Ost Group Photo

This photo was taken in 1943 and shows members of the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost in a "gruppenbild" (group photo) session at their headquarters in Angerburg, Mauerwald, which is part of the German Army Command Headquarters complex (OKH-Stabsquartier). For the identification is, sitting from left to right: Major Dr. Hellmut Nauck (Wirtschaftssachbearbeiter Gruppe II), Oberstleutnant Hübner (Leiter Gruppe V), Oberstleutnant z.V. Riedl, Oberst i.G. Reinhard Gehlen (Abteilungschef), Oberstleutnant Karl Ogilvie (Sachbearbeiter Lage Skandinavien), Oberstleutnant i.G. Johannes Hoheisel (Leiter Gruppe II), and Major i.G. Höfer (Sachbearbeiter Lage Mitte, Gruppe I). Second row FLTR: Hauptmann Georg Viktor von der Marwitz (Kommandant des Stabsquartiers), Major i.G. Wilhelm Kuebart, Major i.G. Gerhard Wessel (Leiter Gruppe I), Major i.G. Karl-Heinz Graf von Rittberg (Sachbearbeiter Personallage, Gruppe II), Major i.G. Rudolf Grüner (Sachbearbeiter Lage A, Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Günther Letschert (Kartei-Referent), Ministerialregistrator Rudolf Bahlk, Oberleutnant Adolf Eiseler (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), unknown, and Technische Oberinspektor Johannes Wagner. Third row FLTR: Leutnant Peter von Vaernewyk (Gehilfe des Kommandanten Stabsquartier), Oberleutnant Jürgen Remé (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), Oberzahlmeister Albert Wiesemann (Mitarbeiter Kartei-Referat), Hauptmann Körnchen (Verwaltungsaufgaben), unknown, Hauptmann Otto Schiller (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Dr.jur. Dipl.-Kfm. dipl.cons. Max Ritter von Bitterl-Tessenberg (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), and Oberleutnant d.R. Walter Schüle (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I). Last row FLTR: Oberleutnant Buchholz (Mitarbeiter Gruppe III), Oberleutnant Hellmut von Hagens (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), Oberleutnant Hermann Förster (Mitarbeiter Gruppe I), unknown, Sonderführer Emmanuel Haller (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), Major Friedrich-Wilhelm von Leutsch (Sachbearbeiter Lage Nord, Gruppe I), Hauptmann Kurt Göllnitz (Mitarbeiter Gruppe II), unknown, unknown, and Kriegstechniker Dr.jur. Jacobus Reimers. Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East) itself is an intelligence organization formed by the German Army whose task is to analyze foreign military forces on the Eastern Front, especially the Soviet Union. When World War II ended, Abteilungschef Gehlen and his men were used by the CIA to continue their work in spying on Soviet Communists through a "new but old" unit called the Gehlen Organization. This unit later became the forerunner of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, a West German intelligence unit in the Cold War era.

Source :
Der Spiegel 1971
Bundesarchiv B 206 Bild-GN13-08-01
https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/JX6IFLT44EBIBOXOBAGFSUDWCDIOJEUB?isThumbnailFiltered=false&rows=20&offset=20&viewType=list&hitNumber=34
https://archive.org/stream/GEHLEN-Reinhard-CIA-files/GEHLEN-Reinhard-CIA-file-VOL-2_f%26c322_djvu.txt
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=260485

Bio of Oberst Albrecht Czimatis (1897-1984)

Czimatis, Albrecht Adolf Heinrich Peter, Dr.-Ing., Dipl.-Ing.
*18.04.1897 in Kattowitz, Königreich Preußen
†22.12.1984 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg

Vater: Dr. Ludwig Czimatis, Geheimer- und Oberregierungsrat (RAO4, EK2w)
Mutter: Marie, geb. Richarz
Ehefrau: Maria Nora Cäcilia Ludowika, geb. Brendgen (05.01.1897-06.03.1943), verheiratet den 18.05.1921 in Breslau

Beförderungen:
01.03.1915 Gefreiter
06.06.1915 Unteroffizier
27.01.1916 Vizewachtmeister
31.05.1916 Leutnant der Reserve
10.04.1918 Leutnant, vorläufig ohne Patent
14.12.1918 Patent vom 24.03.1915 erhalten
01.07.1922 RDA vom 01.09.1915 (320) erhalten
31.07.1925 m.W.v. 01.04.1925 (273) Oberleutnant
01.08.1931 Hauptmann (2)
01.01.1936 Major mit RDA vom 01.12.1935 (64b)
01.01.1939 Oberstleutnant (70)
20.04.1939 anderweitiges RDA vom 01.01.1938 (65b) erhalten
01.12.1940 Oberst (31)

Dienstlaufbahn:
01.09.1914 als Kriegsfreiwilliger in das Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 6 eingetreten
23.02.1915 in das Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 11 versetzt
14.10.1916 der II. Ersatz-Abteilung des Feldartillerie-Regiments Nr. 6 für Neuformation überwiesen
21.10.1916 in das Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 86 versetzt
09.11.1917 in das Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 40 versetzt
10.04.1918 als aktiver Leutnant im Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 40 angestellt
25.03.1919 zur Reichswehr übergetreten
19.05.1919 zur 2. Freiwilligen Batterie des Feldartillerie-Regiments Nr. 40 (Infanterie-Geschütz-Batterie Nr. 8)
03.10.1919 Adjutant der II. Abteilung des Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiments 4
25.09.1920 Artillerie-Regiment 16 (infolge Umformierung)
31.12.1920 als Abteilungs-Adjutant im Artillerie-Regiment 4 in das Reichsheer übernommen
23.09.1924 ab 01.10.1924 zum Besuch der Technischen Hochschule in Dresden kommandiert
07.09.1928 Berechtigung zur Führung des Titels Dipl.-Ing.
27.02.1930-19.03.1931 zum Reichswehrministerium kommandiert
04.03.1930 Berechtigung zur Führung des Titels Dr.-Ing.
01.10.1931 Chef der 8. Batterie des 4. Artillerie-Regiments
01.10.1934 III. Abteilung des Artillerie-Regiments Dresden (laut Stellenbesetzung)
14.06.1935 m.W.v. 01.07.1935 in das Reichskriegsministerium (Wehrwirtschaftliche Abteilung) versetzt
17.11.1936 m.W.v. 01.10.1936 zu den Offizieren zur Verfügung des Oberbefehlshabers des Heeres (Sonst. Offz.) versetzt
24.05.1937 mit d. 01.06.1937 mit der Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte eines Abteilungschefs beauftragt
24.06.1937 mit d. 01.07.1937 zu den Offizieren zur Verfügung des Reichskriegsministers und Oberbefehlshabers der Wehrmacht versetzt
12.10.1937 zur Verfügung des Beauftragten für den Vierjahresplan (mit Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte eines Abteilungschefs beauftragt) (laut Stellenbesetzung)
14.06.1939 mit d. 01.07.1939 Kommandeur der III. Abteilung des Artillerie-Regiments 15
12.09.1939 mit d. 05.09.1939 Kommandeur des Artillerie-Regiments 96
10.11.1939 mit d. 01.11.1939 Kommandeur des Artillerie-Regiments 150
28.11.1940 mit d. 16.11.1940 zum Oberkommando des Heeres / Chef der Heeresrüstung und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres (Stab) kommandiert
18.03.1941 mit d. 15.02.1941 in das Oberkommando des Heeres / Chef der Heeresrüstung und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres (Stab) versetzt (Gruppenleiter Rüstung)
14.08.1941 mit d. 23.07.1941 Kommandeur des Artillerie-Regiments 83
04.01.1943 Führer der 305. Infanterie-Division
xx.xx.1943 bei Stalingrad in sowjetische Gefangschaft geraten

Auszeichnungen:
12.08.1916 Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse
26.09.1918 Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse
31.10.1918 Großherzoglich Badischer Orden vom Zähringer Löwen, Ritterkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern
19.01.1935 Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
02.10.1936 Wehrmacht (Heer) Dienstauszeichnung 4. bis 2. Klasse
xx.xx.19xx 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuze 2. Klasse
xx.xx.19xx 1939 Spange zum Eisernen Kreuze 1. Klasse
02.07.1942 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold

Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=63527&start=15

Bio of Oberst Johann Hild

Oberstleutnant 01.08.34 HILD Johann (Stab Inf.Reg.76) Oberst (01.10.39)

Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=201298
https://www.weitze.com/militaria/13/Foto_Oberst_der_Wehrmacht_mit_Oesterreichischer_Bandspange__207913.html

Regimentskommandeur Emmanuel von Kiliani in the Winter

Oberst Emmanuel von Kiliani (Kommandeur Artillerie-Regiment 193 / 93.Infanterie-Division) in Gostilizzy, winter of 1941/42. Starting from 8 September 1941, the regiment set up its command post in a manor in Gostilizzy, Leningrad Oblast, Russian Front. Kiliani would receive the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold on 2 January 1942 as a Regimentskommandeur in the same position.

Source :
https://www.ebay.de/itm/384289550473?hash=item5979713089:g:qn8AAOSwV6Bg5aUt

Heer Figures in Full Body

FELDBLUSE


Generalmajor Alexander Abt (14 March 1982 - 1 March 1970)

Oberst Johannes Arndt (7 October 1906 - 6 July 1944)



Major Erich Becker (8 April 1911 - 16 Juni 1993)

Generalmajor Julius von Bernuth (12 August 1897 - 12 July 1942)



Oberst i.G. Claus von dem Borne (9 Februari 1900 - 30 Januari 1942)

Generalleutnant Paul Danhauser (2 August 1892 - 11 December 1974)



Generalmajor Hans Ehrenberg (18 September 1888 - 12 October 1947)

Oberstleutnant Adolf Eilers (13 October 1907 - 28 March 1981)

Oberst i.G. Hans-Georg Eismann (4 June 1909 - 13 January 1977)



Oberst Heinz Heggenreiner (21 July 1898 - 1 October 1959)



Generalleutnant Harry Hoppe (13 February 1894 - 23 August 1969)



Generalmajor Wilhelm Knüppel (12 November 1902 - 26 September 1968)



Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Mellenthin (30 August 1904 - 28 June 1997)



General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht (4 October 1888 – 21 July 1944)

 

Generalleutnant Robert Praetorius (22 April 1882 - 10 Mei 1963)



Oberstleutnant Helmuth Reichel (11 September 1912 - 4 April 2004)



Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel (15 November 1891 - 14 October 1944)



Generalleutnant Gerd Scherbening (16 Juli 1888 - 18 Desember 1944)



Generalleutnant Johannes Streich (16 April 1891 - 20 Agustus 1977)



Generalfeldmarschall Erwin von Witzleben (4 December 1881 – 8 August 1944)

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WAFFENROCK

 

Generaloberst Eugen Ritter von Schobert (13 March 1883 - 12 September 1941)

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PANZERTRUPPEN

 

Generalleutnant der Reserve Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz (30 July 1893 – 25 April 1968)



Oberst Ernst Volckheim (11 April 1898 – 1 September 1962)

Oberst Paul-Hermann Werner (19 March 1893 - 30 June 1940)

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STUG WRAP


Oberwachtmeister Fritz Amling (17 January 1916 - 6 March 1994)



Leutnant Richard Schramm (8 July 1913 - 17 June 1944)

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TROPENUNIFORM


General der Infanterie Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (29 August 1897 – 20 May 1947)



Hauptmann der Reserve Erich Röseke (24 January 1921 - 2 May 1994)

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MANTEL

General der Infanterie Paul Otto (12 Juli 1881 - 14 Januar 1961)



General der Infanterie Siegfried Rasp (10 January 1898 - 2 September 1968)

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REICHSWEHR

General der Kavallerie Wilhelm Knochenhauer (16 January 1878 - 28 June 1939)

Source :
LIFE Magazine
Bundesarchiv photo collection
Douglas Dwight photo collection
Jim Haley photo collection
https://www.alexautographs.com/auction-lot/hans-georg-eismann_3F64136ADB
https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6seke,_Erich
https://www.ebay.de/b/General-in-Militaria-Fotos-1900-1918-1945/15504/bn_7004515776
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=2376725#p2376725
https://foto.digitalarkivet.no/fotoweb/archives/5001-Historiske-foto/Indekserte%20bilder/Fo30141711070016.tif.info
https://onlinesammlungen.ghwk.de/seeliger/exhibition/
https://twitter.com/swwec1/status/1348636408018325504?lang=ca
https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/forum/wehrmacht-era-militaria/photos-and-paper-items-forum/12579301-ritterkreuztr%C3%A4ger-personal-photo-album-kc-winner-helmut-reichel-april-6-1944/page2
https://www.weitze.fr/cgi-bin/suche/suche.pl?q=general#s=alle,page=3

Oberst Albin Nake as Commander of Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 136

 

Oberst Abin Nake (right, Kommandeur Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 136 / 2.Gebirgs-Division) in Norway 1940. He would receive the Deutsches Kreuz in Gold on 29 November 1942 as Generalmajor and Führer 97.Jäger-Division. His last rank is Generalleutnant.

Source :
https://www.ebay.de/itm/313573082943?hash=item490269873f:g:H1oAAOSwofxgzzuB

Officer of Jäger-Regiment 54 in an Anti-Partisan Operation

ECPAD Archives (PK690 F1330 L22)

Anti-Partisan operation : An Oberleutnant and DKiGträger (holder of Deutsches Kreuz in Gold) from Jäger-Regiment 54 / 100.Jäger-Division discussing over a map with his trusted Oberfeldwebel during "Operation Paula" in the hills of Papuk, Slavonia, July 1943. The division participate in the anti-Partisan operation at the Papuk Mountains in slavonia, Croatia. At this time, members of the division still not wearing the Eichenblatt insignia on their uniforms. Since the division was in the process of re-creation in the summer of 1943, they did not yet receives some of the items for their unit's insignia, including ärmelabzeichen der Jägertruppen as above. But it could also be as a measurement of camouflage since Partisans should not let be aware of theit exact opponents.

Source :
ECPAD Archives

Panzerjäger Leutnant Arrested by the Canadians

 

A well decorated German Leutnant, member of Panzerjäger (Tank Hunter) unit, arrested by the Canadian army on 13 April 1945 in Netherlands. He have the Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse ribbon in his lapel, while in his uniform is pinned Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse, Allgemeines-Sturmabzeichen and Verwundetenabzeichen in Silber. He is also wearing the Kuban Shield in his sleeve.

Source :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2360048380929060/permalink/2843401592593734/?__cft__[0]=AZWXltG3n_SAUTokfsQdzK3m4Rguy1-It5ZINwK1Z_-DMQ7SIEeEzzwK-QVqV6ZCAMIVRR77XjZPjzasRmqNNYtWxtOgOOmymr2cWuXbdsZrZUvu4NWm-2mR1rTr32zbRth8kBRfSBVJBJNZ7DOM512o_MCwmESvs1WvGTJV1EvzXeAxdFbshNUyvvF-RAGS7ac&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Officers of 79. Infanterie-Division in Stalingrad

A small crowd of officers from 79. Infanterie-Division gather at the aberration post of the advanced division command post in Stalingrad. From left to right: Oberleutnant Gert von Knobloch (O3 79. Infanterie-Division), Major Dr.med.dent. Paul Gloger (Kommandeur Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 244), Oberstleutnant Adalbert Kuhlwein (liaison officer Infanterie-Regiment 369), Major der Reserve Fritz Hildebrandt (IC 79. Infanterie-Division), Oberst im Generalstab Helmuth Strumpet (Ia 79. Infanterie-Division), and Generalmajor Richard von Schwerin (Kommandeur 79. Infanterie-Division). The picture was taken on 23 October 1942.

Source :
https://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/index.php?thread/54669-79-infanterie-division/
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/79ID-R.htm
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/375628425149964770/

Award Ceremony of 225. Infanterie-Division

Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse award ceremony of 225. Infanterie-Division. The general is Generalleutnant Karl Wintergest, Commander of the division from March to July 1944.

Source :
https://www.ratisbons.com/42nd-contemporary-history-auction/photos-iron-cross-awarding-225-infanterie-division.html

Bio of Leutnant der Reserve Alexander Lernet-Holenia

 

Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Vienna, October 21, 1897 — July 3, 1976) was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels describing the intrusion of otherworldly or unreal experiences into reality, and recreational films.

Lernet-Holenia was born in 1897, as Alexander Marie Norbert Lernet to Alexander Lernet (an ocean liner officer) who had married his mother Sidonie (née Holenia) shortly before his birth. He attached his mother's maiden name to his family name only when he was formally adopted by Carinthian relatives of his mother (whose aristocratic family had lost most of its wealth after the war) in 1920. In July 1915, Alexander finished high-school in Waidhofen an der Ybbs and took up Law studies at the University of Vienna, but volunteered for the Austro-Hungarian army in September 1915 and fought in World War I from 1916 onward, serving in the eastern battle theatres and ending the war as a lieutenant. During his service time he first took to poetry, and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke in 1917.

After the war Lernet-Holenia became a full-time writer and published his first volume of poetry, Pastorale, in 1921 and his first drama, Demetrius, in 1925.

Lernet-Holenia participated in the Invasion of Poland as a reactivated and drafted lieutenant of the reserve, an experience on which he based his 1941 novel Die Blaue Stunde (The Blue Hour) which after the war became known under the title Mars im Widder (Mars in Aries). It has been called "the only Austrian resistance novel" because the plot features an ideologically troubled central character, hints at the existence of active political opposition, and because the Nazi government banned and quarantined the first edition of the book. His work was also part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Although Lernet-Holenia made himself a lucrative business as a popular screenplay writer during the Third Reich, he was one of the few accomplished Austrian authors who kept his distance from National Socialism, and refused to endorse the Nazi political system or to participate in its notorious blood and soil literary efforts. However, to stay in business he had to make arrangements with the regime, which included becoming chief dramaturgist at the "Heeres-Filmstelle" (the audiovisual media center of the Wehrmacht in Berlin, charged with producing propaganda films for military cinemas) after the Polish campaign. Robert Dassanowsky has stated that "[Lernet-Holenia's] early actions in the Reich were confused, appearing to vacillate between naiveté and the often clumsy, often shrewd acts of a survivalist ... a unique but not incomprehensible position." Lernet-Holenia became more outspoken as the war progressed. After his removal from his public position in 1944 he escaped service on the Eastern combat theatre through contrived illness and the help of the resistance network.

Being politically untainted, Lernet-Holenia's public recognition rose steeply once again after World War II, and he became an icon of the Austrian culture scenery. The year 1948 alone saw the casting of three films based on his novels, starring prominent actors such as Maria Schell and Attila Hörbiger. Together with Friedrich Torberg (and later with Günther Nenning) he co-edited the intellectual culture magazine Forum beginning in 1957. In 1969 he was elected president of the Austrian section of the PEN Club but resigned in 1972 in protest when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Heinrich Böll, whom Lernet-Holenia regarded as a supporter of the Red Army Faction.

Alexander Lernet had married Lernet-Holenia's mother (the widow Baroness Sidonie Boyneburgk-Stettfeld) only shortly before his birth. Rumors that attributed biological fatherhood to a Habsburg archduke were perpetuated by biographers throughout his life and afterwards but were never substantiated.

In 1923 Alexander Lernet-Holenia — originally a Protestant — converted to the Roman Catholic faith. He was married to Eva Vollbach and lived with her in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut from 1926 until 1951 when the couple moved to Vienna. From 1952 until his death, he lived in state apartments in the imperial Hofburg Palace. Lernet-Holenia remained an outspoken political conservative and aristocratic elitist throughout his life, an attitude that brought him into increasing conflict with the leftist cultural scenery of the 1960s, earned him a reputation as the "difficult old man of Austrian literature," and pushed him into increasing isolation during his final years.

He died of lung cancer in 1976, two years after publishing his last novel Die Beschwörung (The Conjuration) under the pseudonym G. T. Dampierre.

Honors and Posthumous Recognition
Kleist Prize (1926)
Goethe Prize of the city of Bremen (1927)
City of Vienna Prize for Literature (1951)
Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz) (1958)
Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1961)
Gold Medal of the capital Vienna (1967)
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1968)

A park in Vienna's Hernals district was named after Lernet-Holenia on 24 September 1999.

The International Alexander Lernet-Holenia Society (Internationale Alexander Lernent-Holenia Gesellschaft) founded in Vienna in 1998 promotes the study, translation and publication of the author's works. Italian writer Roberto Calasso, a Franz Kafka scholar whose own writings reference Central European identity themes and tensions, serves at the Society's president.

Source :
"Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Maria Charlotte Sweceny; Briefe 1938-1945" by Christopher Dietz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lernet-Holenia

Karteikarte of Oberst Richard Schmidtgen

 

Source :
NARA Archives
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/17798/Schmidtgen-Richard.htm