Adam Kaus

Adam Kaus
Birth date	1 October 1880(1880-10-01)
Place of birth	Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Death date	⚔ 8 November 1941 (aged 61)
Place of death	Bucharest, Romania
Allegiance	German Empire National Socialist Germany
Service/branch	Prussian Army Imperial German Army Sturmabteilung Luftwaffe
Rank	Hauptmann der Reserve SA-Obertruppführer Major
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Iron Cross House Order of Hohenzollern
Relations	∞ Hedwig Buschmann; multiple children
Other work	Graduate engineer and Regierungsbaumeister

Adam Kaus (1 October 1880 – 8 November 1941) was a German officer of the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army and the Wehrmacht, finally Major in World War II as well as graduate engineer and government builder.

Life

After his Abitur and his studies (Civil Engineering) at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, he passed his state preliminary examination (Staatsvorprüfung) in 1903 and his state examination (Staatsprüfung) in 1904, receiving the degree Diplom-Ingenieur. He completed his compulsory military service as a one-year volunteer (Einjährig-Freiwilliger) with the 5. Großherzoglich Hessisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 168, where he became a 2nd Lieutenant of the Reserves.

He was occupied in Darmstadt, Hirschberg and finally Berlin. For WWI, he was reactivated (Oberleutnant der Reserve) and served most of the war in the 5. Großherzoglich Hessisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 168 and in the Großherzoglich-Hessisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 254, but also Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 252 of Thuringia. In February 1915, he was severly wounded and was even reported as ⚔ for a short time. After the war, being discharged as a Hauptmann d. R., he returned to his beloved occupation and took over the Gelsenkirchen factory of his deceased father-in-law in 1924. He lived with his family in the Hans-Schemm-Straße 39 (now Robert-Koch-Straße).

In WWII, he was reactivated as a reserves officer of the Luftwaffe und took over command of the Luftwaffen-Bau-Bataillon 17./IV. The Luftwaffe construction battalions were formed as battalion staffs to lead the independent Luftwaffe construction companies. Their numbering consisted of a sequential number and the respective air district. The Luftwaffe construction battalion 17./IV was thus the 17th battalion of the Luftgau IV. The battalions were usually deployed in companies, the deployment was mostly at air bases, field airfields, anti-aircraft positions and other Luftwaffe facilities in order to set them up and maintain them or repair damage after attacks.

Death

Major and Regierungsbaumeister Dipl.-Ing. Kaus was severely wounded on the Eastern Front and died in the military hospital Luftwaffen-Lazarett Bukarest on 8 November 1941. He was buried in the German military cemetery "Pro Patria" in Bucharest; Final grave location: Block H, Row 9, Grave 49.

Awards and decorations (excerpt)

• Long Service Award of the Landwehr, 2nd Class (LD2)
• Iron Cross (1914), 2nd and 1st Class
• Hessian Bravery Medal (Großherzoglich Hessische Tapferkeitsmedaille; HAE1/HT)
• Austrian Military Merit Cross, 3rd Class with War Decoration (ÖM3K)
• Hessian Warrior Badge of Honor in Iron (Krieger-Ehrenzeichen in Eisen; HK)
• Wound Badge (Verwundetenabzeichen 1918) in Black
• House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords (HOH3⚔) on 30 August 1918
• Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (FEK)

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