Chris Boonzaier

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 ?

I wonder if Waldo is in there somewhere????

Thanks.... the bloody feltgrau leiber still elude me, I only have a single for the Bluse.... but the grey 14th Jäger were a nice find indeed....

Aaaaahhhh... ok... that is another ting I must but on my search list then. I thought it would be skis... They are actually nicer boots than the ones who belonged to the schneeschuh batallion... but with the schratt ones at least i have a name....

This is an august 1914 Ausmarch photo, apparently 2nd Inf regiment.... although it was with Leib Regt photos... but I think we can assume that a regiment at that stage was perfectly fitted out... but check out the close up.... the Soldier has a regular other ranks Tornister... the two NCOs with sword and Portepee have officers Tornister, then an officer with officers Tornister (and smaller roll on it) then in front a guy with a radfahrer Tornister .... I think we can assume that Portepee NCOs wore the officers tornister? Is it written anywhere? Thanks Chris

I am not big on the ghoulish stuff, but this needed a good home so I bought it... I assume it was the souvenir of a French soldier... Interesting because 1) It is 1 bavarian Jäger, 2) The chin strap is the reservists version and seldom seen 3) the cross is not that often seen on the other ranks badge and 4) just behind the left ear the leather has been pierced.... this also went through the liner, and on that spot the liner has some old staining, so i assume the wearer was killed by a splinter. I wish I could put a name to him for a write up.... I assume a death which could have been avoided with a steel helmet...

People back then were wiser... Covid kills more people in a week than died of poison gas in all of WW1... yet the soldiers back then were all wise enough to listen to experts and wear their gas masks... I guess they did not have youtuber telling them it was not necessary ?

You nailed it.... when I saw it for sale I assumed it was the Hitler one... I did not look close enough... when it arrived I thought I was going crazy looking for him... just to realise it must have been one of a series and Hitler was still off drinking tea when this one was taken... close... but no cigar...

Ahhhhhh... funny thing is... when you see it you think that is the picture.... but it is not... he probably arrived later....

... what is so special about it?

I just managed to add another Fasbender Pic... from 1905 just after he had passed General....

OK... Here we go.... a marriage of identied bits and pieces.... Boots… Hans Weis was Born on the 24th March 1890. He entered the army in October 1914 and was initially sent to a Landwehr Regiment but in the 2nd Feb 1915 he was posted to an training Battalion of the Bavarian Schneeschuh Bataillon. On the 12th April 1915 he joined the 1st Company of the 1 Bavarian Schneeschuh Batallion. He served with them in the Tirol and Serbia. On the 12th June 1916 he was wounded by a shell spilinter in the Souville schlucht and after his recovery he seems to have sent some time as an instructor at the Schneeschuh training battalion, then taking part in the Machin Gun training course at Hammelburg. He then spent a year at the Ersatz Geb Maschinengewehr Komp. I. b.A.K. before joining the 1. M.G.K. of the I. Batl. Of Jäger Regiment 3. The Schneeschuh are not issue boots, very probably dating from 1915 and like most boots at this time were privately purchased. They were made by the bootmaker Josef Schratt Jnr. Bootmaked to the royal court, in Oberstdorf. Gamaschen Feldwebel Franz Xaver Biechl served in the 2nd Bavarian reserve Infanterie Regiment for the duration of the war, he was wounded as offiziers Stellv on the 14.4.1918 and died 10 days later Wadenstrumpfe Eugen Steinhauer served in the Leib-Regiment before the war, was an NCO in the 5th Bavarian Landwehr regiment during the war and ended up as a Offz. Stellv. "The making of, with a picture of Biechl... A different pair which are very likely WW1, you can see a piece added at the back of the sole/heel, for skis...