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4 hours ago, Kriegsmarine Admiral said:
that's for sure.
I am not so sure 😉
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It looks like Flandres. The guy with the goggles is GFM Hindenburg. The Admiral most probably Adm. Ludwig von Schröder.
Text: Hindenburg bei seinem Besuch der Küste vor einigen Wochen.
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Grenadier Emil Hädrich
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I´d say it is a bit different, but many signatures are not always looking the same.
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Thank you!
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Glad I could help. Interesting that he wears the wound badge for the navy of WW1.
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Hi,
it says Zur Erinnerung und als Dank - Bachmann, Admiral.
If it is an authentic signature I cannot say.
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Seems to have been empoyed at Grenzschutz in the East after the war. I can see the Baltenkreuz and the Awaloff-Kreuz. Nice photo. Inbetween the Awaloff and the IC seems to be the Mecklenburger Militärverdienstkreuz 1st class. The wound badge was earned in WW1 but seems a postwar issue.
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The medical corps in the army of the Kaiserreich consisted of four main groups, one of which were the Militärkrankenwärter, conscripts unfit or unsuited for normal military service with weapons. They only got a short military training and constituted the main body of the Lazarett-personnel. They had distinctive uniforms. At the start of the war a Sanitätskompanie consisted of 312 men, most of them Krankenträger (245 stretcher-bearers) but also 8 Militärkrankenwärter. Feldlazarette were equipped with 60 personnel, among them 14 Militärkrankenwärter in 1914. Kriegslazarett-Abteilungen had a staff of 127, of which 40 were Militärkrankenwärter. Kranken-Transportabteilungen were manned with 31 men, of which 8 were Militärkrankenwärter.
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Pixs don´t work.
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Pleasure!
There is a multi-volume publication about Knightscross holders of WW2. Maybe there is more data on him concerning his career in WW1?
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Hi,
I was able to read the 2nd Reg. Chronik of IR19. I read until March 1915.
He wasn´t mentioned during the description of the activities, not even him being wounded, although this was common practise when officers were involved. HOWEVER: He is mentioned in the 1st list of personell of 6th August 1914 in Görlitz. He is listed as VzFw OA in 8th coy.
So he was drafted as former Einjähriger who was not yet elected Leutnant der Reserve, but served as Vizefeldwebel and officer´s candidate. He seems to havbe stayed with 8th company until wounded sometime in late Dec. or January 1915. As he is listed as Ltn. d. R. in the loss list he must have been promoted to Leutnant between 6th of August 1914 and 25th Feb. 1915, the day his wounded in action status was published in the loss list.
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Well done!
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I have asked a friend to search the 2nd regimental history of 19. IR for his name. Might know more tomorrow.
There is no RG for IR 329 unfortunately.
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26 minutes ago, Deutschritter said:
Kurt Albrecht, who was KIA in Russia on 1 December 1941 as Oberleutnant and Kompanieführer, was his son ...?
I doubt it. He was born in Lettland and his father would have been quite young (underage). The other Kurt A. at Gandersheim can´t be him as he worked continously there.
Unfortunately there doesn´t seem to be a personal military file at the Bundesarchiv?
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With the help of a colleague from another forum and some additional research on my part I can tell you, that Kurt Albrecht worked as Vermessungsrat (surveyor) and Katasteramts-Direktor in Hirschberg/Schlesien from at least 1935 until at least 1938/9. No mention 1941.
Best,
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On 02/11/2022 at 13:17, David M said:
What kind of collar does is that. Love it
Militärkabinett.
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Hi,
if Dave Danner is right (and much speaks in favour of it), and "your" Albrecht is this one:
The Kurt Albrecht born in 1889 in Dahme was wounded as a Lt.d.R. in IR 19 in early 1915. The third ribbon is the Austro-Hungarian Militärverdienstkreuz 3. Klasse mit der Kriegsdekoration 3. Klasse, which he received as a Lt.d.R. in IR 329.
He was quite lucky to get wounded when with IR 19. The usual timespan between getting wounded and this being reported in the loss list was approx. 4-6 weeks, so that he must have been wounded in January 1915. After that he seems not to have returned to IR 19. There are two regimental history, one of which is online. I checked it and there is no mention of him throughout. However the lists with serving officers initially do not give Kompanieoffiziere. They are mentioned only after February 1915. In those lists he is not mentioned. So he was probably transferred to IR 329 after his release from hospital. Good for him. Because his former regiment was then fighting at Verdun, the Aisne and other high profile battles with heavy losses while IR 329 was busy on the Eastern front until March 1918 when the regiment was transferred to the Western front. In the East the regiment probably fought together with Austrian units, hence his Austro-Hungarian Militärverdienstkreuz.
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PS: The 2nd regimental history of IR 19 is much more detailed and may mention him. Will try and find out.
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HI,
it´s a normal soldier from a Linien-Artillerie Regiment in a Parade-Outfit.
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On 27/10/2022 at 21:26, Great Dane said:
In Freud und Leid liebe(?) Kameraden
Franz
In Freud und Leid dem Kameraden (gewidmet).
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Hi,
this is the house your relative lived in in Hamburg. As a Hafenarbeiter he lived near the harbour in a typical workmensquarter, albeit in the rear of the building pictured (Hinterhaus).
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PS_ I, too, read Morgi. Might be a transmission mistake from the clerk at the Standesamt.
Why he did not serve with a unit from Hamburg (being a resident there, is beyond me. Usually you were drafted at the place you lived at during mobilisation.
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nobody above the rank of Hauptmann. So probably not the staff of IR 163. More likely Kompanieführer-Treffen around 1915 orl later, as all have EKII and at least three EKI. Interestingly no medals on the Oberst. But it was the officer´s choice what to wear in a situation like that.
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Wasserschutzpolizei Schirmmutzen Alder
in Germany: Third Reich: Uniforms, Headwear, Insignia & Equipment
Posted · Edited by GreyC
From the little we see it is difficult to make out. The school was founded as early as August of 1945. There were police-buildings at Veddeler Damm (Polizeihaus) police-barracks at the Freihafen and from 1949 a WSP-school at Worthdamm in Hamburg. The school was probably not at WSP-headquartes at the Klingberg 1 address. All are brick-buildings and I don´t know where the school was prior to 1949. It might have been at Veddeler Damm:
https://www.hamburg.de/innenbehoerde/14278510/2020-09-01-wsps/
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