Walter Caspari

Born in Detmold in 1877, Caspari became a cadet of the Prussian Army after graduating high school in 1896, joining the Infanterie-Regiment von Wittich (3.

Between 1900 and 1901 he served in the 5th East Asian Infantry Regiment, fighting in the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Promoted to Major, he was awarded the Pour le Mérite, the Kingdom of Prussia's highest order of merit, on 21 April 1918, a few months prior to the war's end.

Despite this, the regiment was allowed to continue their participation, although Caspari was forced to relinquish his seat under pressure from the Communists.

One memorial was put up on a cemetery in Bremen already in the 1920s, another - the statue Der Jüngling by Herbert Kubica - was erected in 1936.

The statue was denazified in the years after the war, and purged of any mention of the Freikorps Caspari or Division Gerstenberg.