German Bohr Special Command

[stevenbecker]

Mates,

 

I was going through Nafziger lists showns as

 

Reichsarchives, Iildirim, Deutscher Streiter auf heiligem Boden,

Druck und Verlag von Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, 1924

 

This unit shows up under a Lt Reikes
 

Some possible sub units show up under this unit as;

 

3rd Railroad Construction Company

5th Railroad Construction Company

11th Railroad Construction Company

4th Railroad Special Command

6th Railroad Special Command

7th Railroad Special Command

8th Railroad Special Command

10th Railroad Special Command

 

I am unsure if these are with the Bohr Special Command

 

I show these units as;

 

EBSK11 (Eisenbahnsonderkommando) special railroad service command - Eisenbahnbau-Kompagnie 11

 

I show a number of Officers who ran the Ottoman Railways during the war but none named Bohr?

 

Boehm-Tettelbach Alfred    Capt (Maj)    German General Staff to Railways Eastern Front 1916-18
Boetticher Friedrich von    Capt (Maj)    German General Staff to Railways Eastern Front 1915-18 to general staff officer in Bulgaria 
Böhme Erich     LtCol - Col    German General Staff to Railways 1914-1917 to CO 24th Div 1-18 (replaced Willmer) Filistin'de 24th Piyade Tümeni Komutani (24th Infantry Division Commander in Palestine)
 

Any ideas

 

S.B

[Guest]

Mates,

 

I am sorry no one found any details, but I found what I was looking for.

 

It appears the Germans formed this unit to drill a number of wells in Palestine

 

unit strength veries (as always) 

 

2 officers 8 beamte 31 men (Nafziger)

 

1 officer and 68 men att Turkish Labor Company (page 41 "Wings over Palestine" by Groeschel and Ladek)

 

Bohr-Sonderkommando 1 - appears to be around from May to Oct 1917

 

I should have seen this with the word Bohr (Drill) doh oh oh oh

 

I have a number of drilling officers on record, but I am unsure if they were part of the Bohr SoKo

 

Beyer    Lt Eng    Ingenieur (Engineer officer) - Filistin'de su sondaj islerinde Yüzbasi Range'nin yardimcisi (Afghan Range in the water drilling work in Palestine)    unknown    (not identifed)? 
 

Bork (Borck) Erich    Capt Eng    EBSK 11 (Eisenbahnsonderkommando) special railroad service command - Eisenbahn-Sonder-Kompagnie 11 - used on the Hedschasbahn (Hedjaz Railway) - Afule'de su sondaji birlikleri komutani (OberIngenieur commander Water drilling units in Afule Palestine)    1917-18     (1889 at Reinerz Glatz ) vermißt MIA 19-9-18 possibly PoW
 

Graeve Edlen Otto Von    Maj Eng     StabsIngenieur (Engineer officer) (Water drilling units in Palestine)    unknown    (born 1872 died 1948) searching water with a “Baquette divinatoire” was a German divining rod proponent (dowser) reported by Kress
 

Klingspor     Lt Eng    Ingenieur (Engineer officer)  - Musul'da Petrol sondaj subayi (Oil drilling submaster in Mosul) Mesopotamia    unknown    Mesopotamia (not identified)? 
 

Range     Eng    Ingenieur (Engineer officer) - Filistin cephesinde su ve sondaj isleri bölümü baskani (Head of Department of Water and Drilling Affairs on the Palestinian front) & Filistin'de Tiberia'da bölge komutani (Regional commander in Tiberia in Palestine)    1915-18    (not identified)? 
 

Cheers

 

S.B

Edited 8 January , 2021 by stevebecker