Original Postwar Signature on a Postwar Photo & Paper of Otto von der Linde. Oberst d.R. Otto von der Linde (13.01.1892 in Regenwalde † 23.05.1984 in Wienhausen) earned as the first junior officer of the German Army the Pour-le-Mérite on September 18, 1914 for the capture of Fort de Malonne at Namur on the 24th of August 1914.