Chris Boonzaier

Can you show one from the side wth the rank? If it was named it would be fantastic!!

No, that badge is probably good. I have been at shows in Germany where there were bags of spare parts for sale. Preissler could have gone bust in 1955 with 10 000 pins still in its warehouse for all we know. If Preissler DID make TWM back then.... why are they unknown? Why is just one or two on the market?

Thats Forest Gumps Box of chocolates.... You never know whats in them!! Some may get you just EUR10 or EUR15 on ebay, most may make it to EUR25.... but then again the Odd one could be EUR300... and I even have one that cost a grand........

I see he was born and lived in Klingenberg, I used to bicycle along the main through Klingenberg quite often!

That is pretty damned cool....

If I see correctly, he was a Navy officer at the beginning, then he retained his navy rank while serving with the Luftwaffe. Kampfgeschwader 26 was largely a torpedo Bomber squadron, I used to have a nice German cross in Gold group to a pilot in the Geschwader... they were mainly over the Med if I recall correctly, hitting ships on the way to North Africa. I suppose when the North Arfican theater closed and the Geschwader went to Russia ... they no longer needed a Navy officer. I had another group, a Navy Officer who served as a Luftwaffe Beobachter up in Norway, then at the end of the war transfered to U-Boots... I met him a couple of times, they used Navy officers as Observers because they could navigate... and they could tell a ship full of good guys from a ship full of bad guys.... I guess that is what your guy did.....

Andy found it..... The EK 1870 list shows v.d. Goltz in IR 41, k.z. Dienstleistung b. Oberkomdo. d. 2. Armee when he got his EK2. Thanks :-)

That is fantastic, it would be a shame if there was never a face to go with a career like that!! I assume he was not with the U.Boots long enough to get the badge...

"Oooops... sorry sir... no, I really, really mean it... I am really, really, really sorry!!!" That was magic Dave, I was sure without a first name it may be a dead end.

Hi Dave, that is fantastic! I drool, almost literally, when I see your tunics!

Here is another, similar to above, but with different text

Can you read the regt on the stamp? From the print style i am betting this regiment was on the eastern front?

Hi, by an order from late 1918 all these Vorläufige Docs were decreed to be the final official one. Nice set

Hi Ed, I need a really high definition scan of one with swords :-)

Voyeurs....

Any help would be greatly appretiated. Thanks Chris

Hi, I need a good scan of a MEZ 2nd class and a Hausorden of Hohenzollern to use for a Project. They need to be single., on a ribbon.... like the pic below.....

This one is really interesting as well!! http://www.filmportal.de/video/die-ersten-aufnahmen-aus-der-schlacht-im-westen

I thought this was an interesting photo, the horse and the truck... both going nowhere....

Uggg!!! OK... maybe not ENOUGH wine.... I see the MG as well :-(

I assume this is a Lt Kaltenegger ?

It may be the wine.... but I am sure that is a 16 on his cover??

Hi, Plenty of things can happen to make life unusual ;-) Wounded and sent back to a hospital in germany and landing up there... going to a cousins wedding on leave... some type of Lehrgang... stopping in there in the way from East to West front... there are so many anomolies in life that we cannot even think of....

Thats a nice piece indeed. Have you done any unit research?

Hi, I think it is possible that he is in an MG comapny in the 16th bavarian infantry? I am a big fan of the 12th from neu Ulm, but there is no reason why he could not have been passing through when the pic was taken....