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Hello all! Could anybody of you tell me where this uniform belongs to GB? USA? and who would wear it? Is it police? Thanks a lot! GreyC

Hi, Reinhardt is not rare as surname in Germany. Transfers from infantry to navy are. But not impossible. GreyC

Hi, the first name is General Boehn (inspecting the Res. Jäger Bataillon), the Generalleutnant´s name below is Wilhelmi. Best,, GreyC

Those signatures are always difficult to decipher. Had I not consulted the Kommandantenliste, I wouldn´t have come up with that name. If you know the name, the comparison is easier. GreyC

Hi Johann, at that time Korvettenkapitän Erich Schultze-Jena was Kommandant der SMS Beowulf. The first word Schultze, second word Jena seems to fit. Best, GreyC

Hi, Sampeling the Bremer Addressbook 1914, 1919 und 1929 did not produce results for this name. Best, GreyC

Hi, for the Hanseaten-Kreuze of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck soldiers serving on the ships of these names were elligible for the respective awards of the cities that the ships were named after. GreyC

Hi, magnificent group. I don´t collect medals, but I would have bought the photos and documents, too! One of your photos seems to be a cropped version of a larger one, that I have in my collection. I wonder if there is some text on the reverse, telling place or unit? Could it be X. AK? Also interesting: although he was awarded the EKII in 1914, the Vorläufiges Besitzzeugnis is from 1917. But I guess that was a rather common practice? Congrats! GreyC Yours: Mine:

If you have a name you might find his cv in the Bavarian Stammrolle via Ancesrtry, if indeed the unit was Bavarian. GreyC

Hi, thanks for providing this example. Both letters "c" look quite similar. Though there are discernable differences it is well worth looking into the Portuguese possibilities. GreyC

Hi, thanks for your input. I don´t think he´d be allowed to wear anything unofficial, be it royal or not on his uniform, though. But as the specialists in the German medal forum can´t solve the question, it might be foreign, handed out during a visit, or it is from a German reigning aristocrat, celebrating a certain crown jubilee or marriage anniversary, and only certain soldiers of that state were elligble. GreyC

Yes, unfortunately the building no longer exists. GreyC

Hi, I checked the address of the GK in 1888, 1900, 1903, 1910. It was always at Genthinerstrasse 2, Berlin West. The picture was supposedly published in 1903. So Charlottenburg seems to be wrong. It is a bit more to the north-west of the Genthiner Strasse. Best, GreyC

Hi, Spasm is correct in stating that it is a one of a kind image like a polaroid or ferrotype (and I add: photobooth picture or daguerreotype or slide). As different as all these different types of photographic images are, what they have in common is that there is no negative to print duplicates from (so NO print on paper, so here Spasm is wrong as in this kind of process NO PRINTING is done). Through a chemical process during the development of the latent image, the negative becomes a positive through a chemical process. If you want or need copies of the image (prints), the image in question would have to be re-photographed to be reproduced. As negatives are always mirror inverted the old procedures mentioned show the image "the wrong way round", or "backwards" as Spasm puts it. And that is way. So are daguerreotypes, ferrotypes, ambrotypes, slides and the early photobooth pictures. In the later years the manufacturers of photobooths installed a prism in front of the light sensitive surface of the medium, that made the image look "right" again so that it could be used in passports etc. GreyC

This may be so but your question as I understood it was if only German national were elligble to an EK and my answer was that this does not seem to be the case. If you ment something else, I must have misunderstood. GreyC

Hi, I second the reading of the name. It is not in the original Ehrenrangliste index. You´ll find it in the seperately published annex, of 1929, which contains additional names and corrections. Here the name is listed on p1296 and gives his name as on p. 598 in the Ehrenrangliste. The only Meyer (without -Burckhardt) on that page is listed as Major a.D. (1926), who began the war as Oberleutnant within the Festungs-Fernsprech-Kompanie Nr. 4 at Straßburg. So if it is really the same guy he switched unit during the war, which was not unusual. GreyC

There were Turks who were decorated with EKs, so I don´t think it was given to German nationals only. GreyC

As the first letter is neither a "S" nor a "L" for "schwere" or "leichte", it is either Mittlere Minenwerfer Abt. 18 or 118. Maybe Cron has the details. The guy wearing it is an Unteroffizier. In the photo of Rastatt Wehrgeschichtliche Museum the shoulder borad with MW G 173, the "G" stands for "Gebirgs-" The last photo of OvBacon nicely shows that Pionier Bataillon 15 (Flaps) was responsible for the formation of at least two Minenwerfer units, as all wear the same flaps but different patches denoting the specific Minenwerfer-Einheit. GreyC

Freiherr Rudi Lothar Arndt von Hausen. GreyC

Hi, that´s King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, not Kaiser Wilhelm II, King of Prussia on the left. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II._(Württemberg) GreyC

Hi, yes that´s it. My information is from the same source. Best, GreyC

Hi, if the place of death is the same as place of burial, I am unable to say, but all died on the same day at the same place during their fight in the Somme region. Best, GreyC

Hi, full view till 1879, limited search till 1920. Best, GreyC

Hi Christophe, great collection. I have a few with him on photos as well, but there were many in your presentation I had not seen. I try to specialize on photos that show him with his Protos of which he seems to have been fond. And quite rightly so. A fabulous car. GreyC

Hi Deruelle, are they from your collection or the www? Thanks, GreY