Curt Badinski

[1] After graduating from the City Gymnasium in Stettin in 1908, Badinski spent a year at an officer candidate preparatory institution in Berlin.After being promoted to Fähnrich and attending the War School (Kriegsschule) in Potsdam, he was commissioned as a Leutnant (lieutenant) on 16 June 1911 and served as a platoon leader in the battalion.[1] Badinski led a Grand Tattoo (Großer Zapfenstreich) at the Palace of Laeken in Brussels in commemoration of the Kaiser's birthday on 27 January 1916.He was promoted to Oberleutnant on 18 August 1916 and on 5 November 1916 was given command of the newly-formed 2nd Machine Gun Company of the 9th Jäger Battalion.[1] While garrisoned in Allenstein and Ortelsburg, Badinski prepared the official wartime history of his battalion, the Erinnerungsblätter des Jäger-Feld-Bataillons Nr.On 1 March 1936, he was promoted to Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel), and later that year named commander of the 1st Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment (Infanterie-Regiment 16).
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