WW1 German ID / orders sheet - officer, October 1918

WW1 period German army “military orders” / ID document (Offener Befehl), filed out for a Leutnant V. Crapow, who was serving with the 11th Army’s HQ (Armee - Oberkommando 11). The document stipulates that he was acting as courrier transporting correspondence between the 11th Army HQ and an Austro-Hungarian army command, the Heeresgruppe-Kommando Koevess (which was commanded by Field Marshall Koevess). Leutnant Crapow would be travelling to Heeresgruppe Koevess’s HQ in the Hungarian city of Temesvar. He would be traveling between October 25th and October 29th 1918. 

Interesting multilingual (German, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turkish) document, filled out in the dying days of WW1. The 11th Army was stationed in the Balkans, fighting on the Salonika front. They started evacuating and heading towards Hungary in late September 1918, just before Bulgaria’s surrender. Interestingly Field Marshal Koevess would very briefly become the commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army in early 1918, when Emperor Karl abdicated. Neat little very late war document, of some historical significance, written up while the Austro-Hungarian forces were falling apart.