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Hi, I read Badieker, but might be proven wrong. Can you post the whole page or document, please? GreyC

Good research Andreas! GreyC

I stand corrected. At least I mentioned that there was another one. GreyC

Actually, the correct name is von Bartenwerffer. During the war there were two Oberst and one Generalmajor as well as one Oberleutnant active by that name. Your Hauptmann in 1907/09 was Major at the beginning of the war serving in the Großer Generalstab and ended it as Oberst and Chief of Staff of Generalkommando 55. GreyC

Hi, the name is "von Bartenwerfer" there was a staff-officer under Ludendorff´s command by this name. But if it´s him or a relative I don´t know. GreyC

Hi, the 2nd photo shows a Vizefeldwebel of the Friedensheer (after January 1st 1919, the predecessor organisation of the Vorläufige Reichswehr. From 12.07.1919 rank insignia were changed to those of the Vorläufige Reichswehr. You should allow some time as transition-period for dating the photo. Middle of January to end of July should cover it. Here´s my example of a Vizefeldwebel of IR 149 with EKI and silver or gold wound badge in the post war version. GreyC

Thanks Glenn! GreyC

Hi, you are very welcome. GreyC

Hi, could be the later Generalmajor Weiz. Before the war Oberstlt. with the IR 117 from 20th Mai 1914 Commander of 31 Reserve Inf. Brigade. Ended war as GM. Maybe he switched from the 31st RIBr to 42nd IR. According to the Kriegsgliederung der deutschen Truppen im Cernabogen Mitte November 1916 he was with the 42nd IR at that time. GreyC

Hi Dave, now that you write it.... Spot on! I shall give up on trying to decipher signatures. GreyC

Hi, can´t help much. He was Halbflotillen-Chef of the IVth Minensuchhalbflotille. He was a "von" and his name starts (I think) with an SCH. Coud be von Schemich? or sth like it. GreyC

Thanks, Roman! GreyC

Hi, here´s mine, a Hanseaten-Kreuz from Hamburg in a combination with EKII and FA Cross (Oldenburg) as Frack-Schnalle and bar. GreyC

Hi, from 1865 Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, 1871 Fürst von Bismarck, from 1890 also Herzog zu Lauenburg, a title he himself did not want nor used. He lived in Reinbek which was part of the county/district of Storman bordering Lauenburg. GreyC

Hi, just to prevent misunderstandings: I didn´t refer to the articles on ebay, just referred to the use of CDVs/RPPCs GreyC

Hi, the real photo postcard was offered from around the late 1890s by some and then increasing numbers of German photo-studios. From 1914 on most studio had replaced CDVs, CABs etc. with RPPCs. However, some studios still used them till the 1920s (as shown above), in other countries even to the 30s, especially in rural areas. But these are fairly rare. GreyC

Hi cwdts, "kerning" is a typographical terms and denots the distance between letters and/ or words (in short and simplified terms), so that the distances between them look the same and thererfore pleasant to the eye though due to the different width of the letters the gaps between them are not all the same. GreyC

Hi Alex K and Komtur, thank you very much for your help, much appreciated! I have done some digging and found out the following: Wilhelm Kuhlgatz was promoted to DD after his studies at the University of Jena in 1868 with his thesis on: Quid veteres literaeque sanctae de surdis mutisque existimaverint, disseritur. He was married to Klara, nee Sauerwein, * 21.2.1846, sister of Georg Sauerwein, the polyglot language exepert in Germany at that time. They had at least three sons: Wilhelm (Diss Kiel prob. MD, 1915); Ludwig Pastor *21.1.1887 and Oskar *7th Oct.1880 in Bückeburg, died 30th Oct. 1952 in Göttingen. He was a writer with a less than straight CV, as it seems. He was Oberleutnant in WW1 and participa ted in the fights in Kurland 1919 about which he wrote a book Fahrten und Fechten in Kurland 1919. He seems to have started out as Einjährig Freiwiliger in the Jägerbataillon 4. Funnily enough not at the Jägerbataillon 7 which was based in Bückeburg. His father was (Landes)Superintendent of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1895-1907 and therefore Konsistorialrat, a rank given to people in the highest church council on state level. Landes-Superintendent would roughly translate to protestant bishop of that diocese. As the photo was taken on their 25th wedding anniversary and he is wearing the Ehrenkreuz 4. Klasse I´d date the photo around 1895. Thanks again, GreyC

Hi, from another forum I got the information that the Hungarian officer is Generaloberst Géza Lakatos . GreyC

Good evening Gentlemen, I got this photo lately. It shows Mr and Mrs Kuhlgath of Bückeburg or thereabouts on the occasion of their silver jubilee. As Bückeburg was a city of the state of Schaumburg-Lippe I suppose he is wearing medals of this state. Could anybody please help identify the medals and maybe even the gentleman in question, Mr. Kuhlgath? Thanks a lot! GreyC

NICE! GreyC

Hi, nice photo. Did they always have a "Lederbesatz" leather-reenforced pair of trousers? Thanks, GreyC

Hello there, spot on, Lado! Thank you very much for your help. If I am correct we see him here as Generalmajor. The picture, therefore, must have been taken after August 1942 and before the middle of January 1944 when he was promoted to Generalmajor. So, chances are that we see him here either as " Fliegerführer Afrika" or as "Kommandierender General Fliegerkorps Tunis". After the defeat in Africa he was "Kommandierender General" of VIII. Fliegerkorps in Russia, in which position he was promoted to Generalleutnant. So probably the photo was taken in Russia, as I don´t think that Hungarian generals were active in Africa? GreyC

Thank you for narrowing he choices, stormrider59! GreyC

Hi all, glad you liked it. So did a Bavarian friend with personal/family interest in the Leiber history. So I passed it on to him today. GreyC