Chris Boonzaier

Ludwig von Holnstein.... is this a complete fantasy tunic ? I know officers had leeway... but this is still April 1915.... is it some kind of cavalry derivative?

4 years later ....

Magic, thanks guys. "Ludwig Graf von Holnstein aus Bayern" from the General Kommando 1. bay. Armee Korps The "aus Bayern" is actually part of his title!

This looks to be a bavarian Major ... Is it Ludwig Graf ?????? Thanks Chris

I think I have it..... this is not just any Jerry... it is Mungo Jerry!!!!!

Funnilly enough... on the photo he is Döhla, on the locker tag he was Döhla... but on the dog tag Doehla... which is OK.... but on his records Döhla (Eduard Josef) was corrected to Doehla. His MMJO was awarded in 1919, so obviously not on the pic

Hi Guys, thanks, we are all on the same page there... our left, their right... I assume this was befor his award of the MMJO as he has no ribbon. The photo was not dated unfortunately. Added to the facial guestimate I think his stance and the way the others stand gives me the impression he is the boss. A huge coincidence finding that photo after finding this a week before....

OK, I think I have it, and I do not want to influence anyones thoughts.... who is Major Döhla in the group photo? I only have a terrible quality single shot of him....

I always found the most poignant part of the group the orphanage papers, where they were delivered with x pairs of underwear, x handkerchiefs etc. etc

Glenn Nailed this.... Fähnrich could wear the officers Backpack... Chip nailed the other one... it is a radfahrer right at the front...

You are welcome to post, I am simply pointing out you would probably get more answers if you made it more interesting for the people who may spend the time and effort answering, otherwise it is a bit of a one way street.

Agree 100% ... a number of possibilities... 1) he was there... he had to be somewhere... 2) The ace of someone else was doctored to look like him ...3) there was another guy who looked similar Hoffmann was very prolific, you see many of his pics in period books... so maybe he doctored an image he had never released... otherwise he would have published it in the 20s and some guy says "hey, i bought this card in 1915... the hitler guy is not on it back then!" For me the question is why does he have this mustache? in the WW1 Hitler pics he has a more "normal" one. This looks like a postwar hitler IMHO

I looove that Bavarian General ... not in a carnal sense or anything... just like his uniform!!

This has no stamps, and has a strap, but does not go on a belt... it is quite a bit wider than a normal mapcase, so maybe maps and diverse papers.. and has place for what I assume are colored pencils, so a much bigger "deal" than the regular map case.... It belonged to a Bavarian MG Leutnant... from at least mid 1916.... Has anyone seen anything like it? I assume private purchase?

Yup, you nailed it. As for the others, Glenn wrote they are Fähnrich, so they had officers packs

To be honest, he was a point... I too would take a more active interest in answering questions when the person shows themselves to more active in helping others and bothers to post photos... maybe you should adapt a little to how others participate instead of just posting questions... a photo at very least.

Possible I guess... but Hoffmanns photos were sold to the public... he would have had to have used one that had somehow not been seen before... what this known as a Hitler pic during the war or was he "discovered" by postwar authors?

Some years ago on Ebay I bought a small group to Hauptmann d. Res Heyder, a Reserve officer who served in the Bavarian Infantry Leib regiment but mobilised in the 1st Bavarian Landwehr Regt , killed at Souain on the 15zh of January 1915. I saw the man had been a forester about 10KM from where I lived in Bavaria. In fact, he had lived about 2km away from a collector friend, who was also a forester!! What a coincidence! … an even bigger coincidence, my collector friend told me that Heyder’s grandson had been his math teacher, and a collector friend of ours had gotten a ribbon bar from him many years ago!.. And that collector friend then said “I still have the bar… and because you are such a great dude and all children and animals like you… you can add it to your frame!” (well, that’s how I remember it… )… so in the frame is a small framed picture of him, a dogtag case with his dog tag, the ribbon bar, the papers, coins, medaillions and glasses all fit into the wallet and according to a note were returned to the family as such… and some dried flower(s= that I collected from the garden of the graveyard of the church at Somme Py where his body was laid out after his death… We get all excited about what we collect, there is no harm n that… but sometimes we need to stop and look at the people involved.

Thanks!

Thanks! Do you have any thoughts to the officers backpack on Portepee NCOs?

As we see in pic one, finding a rat faced weasel with a toothbrush mustache in a 1914 München crowd was like finding a guy in a tie die t-shirt at on a woodstock photo... could have been a lookalike... I have seem any prewar and wartime touchups... adding a complete hitler there would have been next level magic back then?

Would it have been a Jäger board?

Just what I am doing... the last week at home, just the wife, me and the kids... 2 quick trips to the shop... then home.... watched the shinning.... Jack had some damned fine ideas!! Militaria keeps me sane ?

S'Funny.... we never see any pics of Hitler wearing the RIR16 hat..... I guess I woulda slipped those into a drawer as well if I was in the unit... they must have danced for joy when they finally got spiked Helmets.... I was happy to find a pic of one...

I will still wear my mask to protect the elderly ?