the battalion received the designation Sturm-Bataillon Nr. 5 (Rohr) from the War Ministry.<ref>Hellmuth Gruss: Die deutschen Sturmbataillone im Weltkrieg. Aufbau und Verwendung.; Berlin, 1939, p. 61</ref> At the same time Willy Rohr became chief training officer. Since it was the first and most successful storm battalion, its number of "5" instead of "1" came from the army it served in. In January 1918, Rohr was assigned command of the first deutsche Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung (German Armored Vehicle Detachment), a tank unit. Both the slowness and clumsiness of the vehicles were regarded as defects. Rohr went on 11 March 1918 to AOK 18, the 18th Army headquarters, in Leschelle to make preparations for a major attack, Operation Michael. His battalion arrived during the night of March 19. In April Rohr was promoted to Major. Under secret marching orders the battalion was sent in mid-October 1918 to Spa. It was assigned to guard the Große Hauptquartier and Oberste Heeresleitung (Supreme Army Headquarters). When the emperor fled 48 hours later, Major Rohr obtained approval from OHL and left Spa with his battalion in the direction of Germany. A large part of the battalion was demobilized in Schwelm. Postwar After the war Rohr was assigned in 1920 to Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 29 of the Provisional Reichswehr. With the formation to the 100,000-man army in 1921, he was dismissed and put at its disposition under the title of a lieutenant colonel. Since the major received no suitable command in the Reichswehr and had to take supply jobs on the staff, he resigned. Thus the Reichswehr deprived itself of one of its most capable soldiers. Rohr found a new home in Lübeck, where he died while a director of the Lübecker Getreidebank. Decorations Order of the Crown, 4th class Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd Class Knight of Dannebrog Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Spanish Order of Military Merit, 1st Class Knights Cross with Swords of the House Order of Hohenzollern Gallipoli Star Writings Anweisung für die Ausbildung beim Sturm-Bataillon. (English: Instructions for Storm Battalion Training). References Sources Hermann Cron: Geschichte des Deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914–1918. (History of the German Army in the World War, 1914-1918); Berlin 1937. Lübeck General-Anzeiger of 13 March 1930: Obituary, written by Count von Schwerin, editor of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Zeitung in Essen, in the name of the former members of the Crown Prince's Sturm-Bataillon No. 5 (Rohr) Bruce Gudmundsson: Stormtroop