Max Kranz - August 1914

Max Kranz (see other articles), a civilian winery owner and merchant in Hatzenport on the Moselle, began his war effort on August 3, 1914, the day the German Reich declared war on France. As a deputy officer, he was drafted into a foot artillery regiment of the Landwehr in Metz. The Lorraine town had belonged to the German Empire since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71. On August 8th his battery …