Bear

I'm not sure about the copyright so if that is a problem delete.

website

marinesiedlung berlin schlachtensee

http://home.arcor.de/ajuettemann/wonnegau/marine.htm

Axel L?we

Axel Loewe, Kapit?nleutnant (*1883 +1955)

1939-1940: Kommandeur der Marineflakabteilung 261

1940-1945: Kommandeur der Marineflakabteilung 233

1940-1945: Flakkommandeur Swinem?nde

1943-1944: Kommandant im Abschnitt Swinem?nde

Here is a link to the 1905 Rangliste.

Their names are in yellow on page 42/43.

Those Funny Letters

Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=oAtQAAAAI...PX4tQQ#PPA43,M1

I'm new at this so I'm not sure what I've found.

Rangliste Kaiserlich Deutschen Marine (1905)

page 42

Charlotte - Maybe his Ship

Lt.z.s. L?we(Arul or Ural)

The Charlotte was a Tall Ship built in 1886, from 1903-1905 she was used for training.

page 43

Stein - Maybe his Ship

Lt.z.s. Andersen or it might be Undersen

Stein - Kreuzerfregatte(Bismarck Class )

Thanks Rick

I found some info on the 5e.

It had 4 squadrons and a total of 792 cuirassiers in 1809.

4 squadrons = 8 companies (1 captain per company)

so we have 8 captains in the 5e

Uniform - blue coats, white breeches, orange cuffs & collars

As for officers I have only found the names of colonels on up.

last part

2

Looking at this morning I'm not sure whats going on the last paragraph. Maybe a list of dead officers being awarded the L?gion d'honneur.

I've spent hours on other documents trying to translate just one sentence. :banger:

I can't find his name anywhere. It ends with the officer receiving the L?gion d'honneur by his Majesty.

Thanks Chris

When it comes to translating I can get about...

33.3%(Right ON)

33.3%(Good Guess)

& the remaining 33.4%(I Have know Clue) just screws it all up.

last random page

random page

The Duke of Montebello Lots of names in the Journal.

Got it Today I hope that soon it will get translated. :D

Enhancing the photo one can see that the skull area has darkened while the outer edge is lighter.

interesting stuff

Here is a shaky description of the manuscript.

5th Regiment Cuirassiers, since his departure from Hanover on 10 March 1809 until 14 October of that year. Slnd, petit in-4, [24] pp., Handwritten, paperback,

Exceptional historical narrative of the campaign of 1809 by an officer of the 5th Cuirassier.

The regiment of Saint-Sulpice Division, attached to the body Mass?na, including Abensberg of Eckm?hl and Regensburg, finally providing a relationship of the Battle of wagram where "5" had a supporting role. The text ends with an armistice and the peace of 14 October, when the command "Sulpice is replaced by Germain.

From the beginning, the author tells us about his impressions. The crossing of Westphalia and Bavaria briefly described, it enters the heart of the matter we are making the first skirmishes with the Austrians at the end up the Danube in April and Eckm?hl where the Fifth Cuirassiers were distinguished. It was during this battle, we discover a curious fact which makes it particularly relevant to the manuscript, and it is known that prevails among the staff a challenge to the merits of tactical decisions the emperor:

...it is therefore, as a form of battle, these movements are made under the gun of the enemy. However, the Emperor sends a second order to the Colonel of the regiment to move on the position of Eckmuhl and prevail. The Colonel knows the field notes from the camp of His Majesty that the village is cut off, that protects the river, is surrounded by marshes and the roadway which is very close.... The charge is ordered and taken away by the courage so natural to a french, Colonel galloped.... what situation! What a time for a regiment!

The famous charge of the evening of April 22, who offered the "laurels of glory" in the Fifth, had no real strategic importance but will have significant psychological impact on the enemy, until Regensburg. Equally exciting, the reading of the manuscript continues with the arrival at Vienna on 10 May, the magazine of the Emperor on the 16th, the participation of the Fifth at Essling battle with the prince of Montebello, and the Aspern maneuver where after pressing the Austrians, the regiment took the flag to the opposing side. The passage of the Danube Island Lobeau prevent the 5th Cuirassiers to participate in the Battle of Wagram in which the author does not fail to mention that the win goes to the "genius of Napoleon."

The story finally ends the pursuit of the Austrians, whom the Regiment will be involved this time, having been ordered to cut all retirement before Hollabrunn positions Znaim. "No case has been so bloody and at the same time of such great importance." Essling such cost in effect to 21 000 French troops and 23 000 in Austria, the author often regretted the loss of horses

The many dead and wounded officers were are cited in a beautiful expression, "mingled with a few cypress laurels.

At every point, this manuscript very detailed, making these very lively glorious and bloody adventures, can be intersected with the many memories of the time, like those of General Marbot or of Bismark who salutes "the real moral power" of heavy cavalry regiments: "Brave as Cuirrassiers.

Bibliography: Juzancourt, Essai sur l'histoire des Cuirassiers, 1886. Vial, Cuirrassiers History 5th, 1894 (which this paper provides guidance to the new tables of officers killed during the 1809 campaign.)

I've been checking on Niemeier and found this little footnote in a book. However the page that the footnote goes with is missing(Page 198).

Looks like an interesting book.

Benjamin Constant By Dennis Wood

http://books.google.com/books?id=d6qbA4-eN...meier#PPA302,M1

Wolfenb?ttel, Nieders?chsisches Staatsarchiv, MS 264 N II s. 12 Nr 23, dossier entitled 'Papiere die Erbschaft Benjamin Constant's betreffend', Pouvoir donn? par Mr. Du Tertre ? Monsier Niemeier, notaire ? Brunswick pour faire toutes le d?marches de droit afine d'obtenir la cassation de son mariage avec Dame Comtesse de Hardenberg (cause indqu?e : Mr de Marenholz son premier mari dont elle est divorc?e ?tant encour vivant), sur papier timbr?, 5 juin 1807, unpublished; also Constant, (Euvres, pp. 637-8.

Wolfenb?ttel, Lower Saxony State Archives, MS 264 N II, p. 12 No. 23, dossier entitled 'documents the heritage on Benjamin Constant's' given power by Mr. Du Tertre Mr. Niemeier, notary in Brunswick to do all the right steps to get the appeal of his marriage to Countess Lady of Hardenberg (cause indicated: Mr Marenholz of her first husband whom she is divorced is encouraging living) on stamped paper, 5 June 1807, unpublished; also Constant, (Euvres, pp. 637-8.

5 June 1807 - Just a week before the Battle of Friedland

Maybe he lived in a castle

http://books.google.com/books?id=_jYAAAAAc...p;lr=#PPT298,M1

I think its around 25 pages(untranslated). I hope to find someone that will be willing to translate it for a small fee.

I just got informed that I've got a diary of a French 5e cuirassier detailing his journey during the 1809 campaign(Eckmuhl, Ratisbonne, Essling, Wagram, ect...)on the way to my house. I can't wait That feeling of a kid in the candy store has not left me. It should be an interesting read. Is it monday yet.....

Interesting Stuff

I found some other info, but its in German , so I'm not sure what I've got here.

Maybe the same guy.........

Here is the link to this stuff

search Niemeyer

http://www.stadtarchiv-celle.findbuch.net/...nd=be&id=28

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Bestand: Best. 05 - Milit?rwesen

VE: Verhandlungen mit dem Zollkommissar Niemeyer wegen des ?bernommenen Magazins, pp.

Indizes Niemeyer (Zollkommissar)

Bestand: Best. 05 - Milit?rwesen

Klassifikationsgruppe: 07.03 Verpflegung, Kriegerfuhren und sonstige Leistungen

Bestellnummer: 5 G 96

Dat. => Findbuch: 1803 - 1806

Index: Niemeyer (Zollkommissar)

-Milit?rwesen

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Bestand: Best. 12 - Gerichts- und Polizeiwesen

VE: Zollkommiss?r Niemeyer wider die Schiffer Bockelmann aus Eilte und Sievers aus Inschede wegen Arrests.

Indizes Niemeyer, Zollkommiss?r

Bestand: Best. 12 - Gerichts- und Polizeiwesen

Klassifikationsgruppe: 02.02 ?ltere Prozesse

Bestellnummer: 12 B 85

Dat. => Findbuch: 1802 - 1803

Microfilm/-fiche: S.-Film 766

Index: Niemeyer, Zollkommiss?r

-?ltere Prozesse

Sievers, Schiffer

-?ltere Prozesse

Eilte

-Gerichts-u.Polizeiwesen

Inschede

-Gerichts-u.Polizeiwesen

Bockelmann, Schiffer

-?ltere Prozesse

Google Translate

Inventory: Order 05 - military

VE: negotiations with the Customs Commissioner Niemeyer assumed because of the magazine, pp.

Niemeyer indices (Customs Commissioner)

Inventory: Order 05 - military

Group classification: 07.03 Meals, Fuhren warriors and other services

Order: 5 G 96

Dat. => Reference: 1803 - 1806

Index: Niemeyer (Customs Commissioner)

Military matters

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Inventory: Order 12 - court and police

VE: Customs commissioner Niemeyer against Schifferstadt Bockelmann from Sievers and hurried from Inschede because arrest.

Indices Niemeyer, customs commissioner

Inventory: Order 12 - court and police

Group classification: 02.02 Mature Processes

Order: 12 B 85

Dat. => Reference: 1802 - 1803

Microfilm / fiche: p. 766-film

Index: Niemeyer, customs commissioner

older-processes

Sievers, Schiffer

older-processes

Hurried

Court-u.Polizeiwesen

Inschede

Court-u.Polizeiwesen

Bockelmann, Schiffer

older-processes

I did find this but not sure what it means.

google books

http://books.google.com/books?id=qsQsAAAAY...num=1#PPA339,M1

Eva Juliane Auguste Luise, geb 8 marz 1783, heirathet am 20. febr. 1811 Otto Carl Niemeyer, Amtmann 2 Reinhousen, und stirbt am 17 Jan 1845.

Hello Mossop,

I've checked all my sources and have found nothing. I'll keep looking

You might want to post this in the Imperial German Section.

thanks,

barry

The Massena Document.

same or different

It looks sorta like Napoleon's writing but I don't think it is.

Napoleon's Chicken Scratch on a 1814 document.

Colonel Escorches de Sainte-Croix

Colonel: 5 May 1809

General de Brigade: 21 July 1809

Officer of the Legion d?Honneur: 31 May 1809

Croix would be cut in two by a cannon ball while in the Army of Portugal.(Battle of Busaco - 11 October 1810)

Hello,

I had a great time at the auctions. I got the two that I was wanting for less money than I thought I'd be paying. I got the James Monroe and the Massena. I'm going to have to do some research on the officers mentioned. It will be a week or so before they arrive for a closer look.

Marshal ANDRE MASSENA (1758 - 1817)

"Massena" as Marshal of France and Duke of Rivoli, "in bivouac on Lobau Island" [Vienna], May 26, 1809. Just four days after the near-disaster at the battle of Aspern-Essling, in which a French advance guard managed to retreat safely in the face of an Austrian force nearly four times its size, Massena writes the Emperor Napoleon in French, to "request Your Imperial and Royal Majesty to reward the officers of my staff who distinguished themselves in the battle of the 21st and 22nd. For Colonel St. Croix, my aide-de-camp, the officer's cross?" and for his other aides-de-camp "Lieutenant Renique?the rank of Captain / for Lieutenant Porcher?the rank of Captain, for Lieutenant Massena?the Legionnaire's cross?", as well as promotions and medals for a number of other officers.

The little note on the left looks like Napoleon's chicken scratch.