Talk:August Maus/Archive 1

Archive 1

Capture and escape attempts

The Friedrich Guggenberger#Escapes article mentions August Maus and links to this article. The link does not guarantee it's the same person but presumably the sources about Guggenberger's escapes and capture could also be used as material for this article. --Marc Kupper|talk 08:01, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Notability

Does not meet WP:SOLDIER & sig RS coverage not found link, just passing mentions.

A de.wiki article exists but is equally unconvincing for notability. Did not hold a significant command and topped out as Kapitänleutnant. Successful completion of missions is not part of SOLDIER. Please also see a note at MilHist Talk Archives for background behind the redirect. In summary, per the outcome of the discussion at Notability:People on notability of Knight's Cross recipients: permalink, certain recipients were deemed non notable and WP:SOLDIER has been modified accordingly: diff. The articles of these recipients are being redirected to alphabetical lists. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:18, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

August Maus is mentioned in several reliable books and has his own chapters in the German-language Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (2003). Der U-Boot-Krieg 1939–1945 — Die Ritterkreuzträger der U-Boot-Waffe von September 1939 bis Mai 1945 and the English-language Wiberg, Eric (2017). U-Boats off Bermuda: Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944, where information on his career, birth and death can be found (as listed in WP:SOLDIER). Aditionally, August Maus plays an important role in the stories covered by Moore, John Hammond (2006) and Lloyd, Keith Warren (2019), both on the Great Papago Escape. The old version of this article was very poor, but now, imho it shows clear evidence of notability of this person. He is probably (rearding the sources) even of more importance than, let's say, Horst Höltring, whose article has never been changed to a redirect. Furthermore, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross is listed on Template:Highest gallantry awards, which qualifies the article for notability (for people who don't understand: "obsolete" in the template means, the award itself is obsolete - Nazi Germany has perished -, not the fact that it qualifies for notability of a WP article). -- PhJ (talk) 19:36, 28 August 2019 (UTC)