WWII Uniform of German Army General Major Doctor Heinrich Lohe

The high quality tailored uniform is comprised of the field gray wool tunic and the slate gray wool trousers, made for General Doctor Lohe by the Berlin tailoring firm of Hermann Frank in October of 1944. The field gray tunic has gilt Assmann & Sohn buttons which show wear to the gilt finish, but all buttons are intact. The upper right breast has a very fine quality General’s breast eagle in celleon thread. The collar tabs are a combination of toned gold bullion and celleon. The shoulders bear the sewn in rank boards of a General Major, each having the medical branch insignia. Above the left breast pocket are two rows of sewn-on ribbon bars which reflect Dr. Lohe’s military service in both world wars. The decorations reflected by the ribbon include the 1914 Iron Cross Second Class; the 1939 War Merit Cross Second class with Swords (the swords device is missing from the ribbon); the Third Reich 40 Year Faithful Service Cross; and the 1936 Olympic Games Medal. Below the ribbon bars are the 1914 Iron Cross First Class and the World War I Wound Badge in Silver, both pin through sets of thread loops. The interior tunic pocket has the label of the Hermann Frank firm and it names the uniform to Lohe and it reflects the tailoring date of October 26, 1944. The tunic has a separation on the top rear edge of the collar, but otherwise the tunic is in excellent condition and it makes an exceptionally impressive appearance. With the tunic are the slate gray wool trousers with wide red stripes, also with the label of the Hermann Frank firm, with the name of Dr. Lohe, and it reflects the same tailoring date of October 26, 1944. The trousers show a few tiny and barely visible bites to the seat area, but overall they are in excellent condition. Both the tunic and the trousers are a superb example of the complete uniform of a German Army General of World War II, with the set having been tailor made for a physician who saw saw important service as a ranking member of the army medical establishment during the war.

Dr. Heinrich Lohe was born in 1877. He was the son of the government and school councilor Karl Löhe and Christine Löhe, geb. Trimborn, to the world. He passed his matriculation examination at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Cologne, studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education from 1897 to 1901 and initially worked as a military doctor. In 1903 he received his doctorate in Bonn, then went back to Berlin, worked from 1905 to 1909 with Edmund Lesser at the University Skin Polyclinic and from 1910 to 1912 with Johannes Orth at the University’s Institute of Pathology. He returned to the Dermatology Clinic in 1912 as Lesser’s assistant. After habilitation in dermatology in 1915 at the University of Berlin and participating in World War I, he was appointed associate professor in 1918. In the following year, Georg Arndt (1874–1929) was appointed senior physician at the university dermatology clinic. From 1925 on he was the doctor in charge and later director of the dermatological department of the Rudolf Virchow Hospital . As a general physician and consulting dermatologist at the Army Sanitary Inspector , he was a member of the Scientific Senate of Army Health Services from August 1942. After the end of World War II, he became in 1945 the full professor of dermatology and director of the Department of Dermatology , Charité ordered. He retired in 1951. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

The main focus of his scientific work was experimental work on syphilis , clinical-histological work on the bone system in congenital syphilis and studies on the clinic and therapy of cancer and leprosy . In 1952 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He died in 1961 in Berlin.