Talk:Erich-Heinrich Clößner

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Suggested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Done Page moved, seems to make sense and no strong opposition. The Helpful One 11:34, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Erich Clößner → Erich-Heinrich Clößner — because his "official" name was Erich-Heinrich, and therefore I don't think we should choose only one of his two names. Jake V (talk) 10:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

oppose: This is not a strong opposition, but I don't think it NEEDS to be changed. How was/is he commonly referred to as? What did his mother call him in common use? Would it be sufficient to have Erich-Heinrich Clößner as a redirect page? regards, Lynbarn (talk) 12:41, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The most reliable sources about WWII German Generals refer to him as Erich-Heinrich (Lexicon der Wehrmacht and Axis Biographical Research). Of less importance (in my viewpoint) is the article of the German Wikipedia, as well as the number of hits in google: 1460 for "Erich-Heinrich" and 470 for plain "Erich". How his family or fellow officers called him, we simply cannot know for now. Good examples to demonstrate naming conventions about German military persons could be Otto Ernst Remer, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Karl-Adolf Hollidt, Georg-Hans Reinhardt and more, to name, among others, a few Generalobersten. All in all, it was not an unusual phenomenon to encounter an officer with two given names. Regarding the above-mentioned examples, it would not be neither unreasonable nor unusual to move the article to the "official" name, Erich-Heinrich. MfG, --Jake V (talk) 17:54, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.