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Oberleutnant Franz-Josef Maubach Highest rank reached: Hauptmann A/Flieger-Ausbildungs-Rgt 62 Staffelkapitän 11./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 13./KG 53 Staffelkapitän 4./KG 53 DKiG: 19 May 1943 Ehrenpokal: 07 Oct 1941 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberleutnant Emil Allmendinger Born: 18 Feb 1913 Highest rank reached: Major I/KG 53 Staffelkapitän 1./KG 53 Lehrgangsleiter Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Chef 1.Kp Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Flugleiter I/Grosse KFS 3 Greifswald Ausbildungs Gr.Leiter FFS C 15 Kdr III/KG 53 Kdt Platzkommando Eggebek / Fliegerhorst Kdtr A9o) 3/XI DKiG: 14 Feb 1942 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Major Alarich Hofmann Born: 28 June 1903 Died: 27/28 Dec 1942 - MIA in Murmansk area Highest rank reached: Oberst (Posthumous) Staffelkapitän 3./KG 53 Ia Stab/IV Fliegerkorps Chef d.Stabes IV Fliegerkorps Kdr I/KG 30 DKiG: 09 April 1942 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Oberstleutnant Paul Weitkus Born: 17 Oct 1898 Died: 09 Nov 1974 Highest rank reached: Generalmajor Kdr II/KG 252 Kdt Fliegerhorst Liegnitz Staffelkapitän 3./KG 26 Kommodore KG 53 Kdr Kampfbeobachtervorschule 1 Kdr He-111-Verbände zur Versorgung im Osten Kdr I.Rumänischen Fliegerkorps Fliegerführer Albanien Fliegerverbindungs-Offz to Heeresgruppe E Kdr Luftflottentruppen/Luftflotte 4 Kdr 18.Fliegerdivision RK: 18 Sept 1941 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

Some nice examples. Wehrmacht wedding photo portraits make an interesting collecting field.

Is he a General (not that it narrows things down)?

Hauptmann Gerrit Wiegmink Born: 30 July 1909 Died: 24 March 1944 - shot down Sønder-Tranders (Denmark) Highest rank reached: Major Stab/Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 (attached to the battlecruiser Scharnhorst 1940) Gruppenkommandeur Bordfliegergruppe 196 (Biography source: Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries by Henry L. deZeng IV and Douglas G. Stankey)

General der Infanterie Briesen, Kurt Alfred Otto Erimar von Born: 03 May 1883 Died: KIA 20 November 1941 Kdr 30.Infanterie-Division Kdr LII.Armeekorps RK: 27 October 1939 (Stamped signature)

Major Hermann Lessing Born: 20 October 1900 Died: 29 May 1990 Highest rank reached: Oberst / Kapitän zur See Transferred from Kriegsmarine to Luftwaffe in 1937 Staffelkapitän 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Scharnhorst Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Lufttransportführer (See) Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 906 Kommandeur Küstenfliegergruppe 706 Verbindungsoffizier OKL to OKM/Skl XIII. Fliegerkorps Kommandeur Navigationschule Strausberg Possible Seeaufklärungsgruppe 130 Transferred from Luftwaffe to Kriegsmarine Kommandierender Admiral der Unterseeboote Kommandeur U-1231 Ehrenpokal: 26 October 1942

Oberleutnant Otto Hunnius Born: 08 December 1915 Died: MIA 11/12 May 1943 - reported MIA during a sortie to mine the Thames & Humber estuaries Highest rank reached: Hauptmann 1./Bordfliegergruppe 196 - onboard Gneisenau Führer der Seeluftstreitkräfte West 3.(M)/Küstenfliegergruppe 806 1./LG 1 Staffelkapitän 11./KG 6 Staffelkapitän 7./KG 6

Oberleutnant Walter Haasemann Born: 28 April 1922 Died: MIA 10 December 1943 3./KG 3 DKiG: 20 March 1944

Oberleutnant Hans Schönberger Born: 14 August 1914 Highest rank reached: Hauptmann KG 3 Kp-Chef Horst-Kp/Fliegerhirst Kdtr A Riga-Spilve Stab I/KG 3 Staffelführer 3./KG 3 IV/KG 3 DKiG: 16 February 1943 Ehrenpokal: 24 November 1941

Hauptmann Gustav Quaas Born: 29 July 1912 Died: MIA December 1942 - various sources give date as 1, 10 & 18th December Grosse KFS Lechfeld Staffelkapitän 3./KG 3 DKiG: 24 Sept 1942 Ehrenpokal: 04 May 1942

It looks like the bataillon was part of Reserve-Grenadier-Rgt 209 of Division Nr 174 which was formed in Chemnitz in July 1940. It was renamed 174.Reserve-Division in September 1942 in Lublin and in July 1944 it was absorbed by 26.Infanterie-Division. Unfortunately, what records exist for '174' have yet to be digitised and made available online so can only be copied by attending the archives in person or hiring a researcher: https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/422a871e-9228-42f4-a6ab-5448272aed2e/

If anyone wishes to obtain copies of Tessin (think Lexikon der Wehrmacht site but in book form), the Bundesarchiv have made all the volumes available for free download: https://www.bundesarchiv.de/DE/Content/Artikel/Benutzen/Hinweise-zur-Benutzung/Unterseiten-Militaer/Militaerische-Verbaende-und-Einheiten/benutzen-speziell-milit-verbaende-einheiten-tessin.html

Major Paul-Heinz Brendel Born: 24 Dec 1907 Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant i.G. Gen.St 7.Armee z.Gen.St.kdt Ib 31.Infanterie-Division Ia LII.Armeekorps Ia 8.Jäger-Division Gen.St.d.H, Abt.Fremde Heere West

Major Hans Brettschneider Born: 19 July 1888 Died: 20 October 1940 Highest rank reached: Oberstleutnant Wehrbekirkskommando Neuss

Rittmeister Helmuth von der Groeben Born: 06 February 1906 Highest rank reached: Major 1./Kavallerie-Rgt 17 O1 17.Infanterie-Division Kdr Radfahr-Abt 227 Kdr Kavallerie-Ersatz-Abt. 100

Hauptmann Eduard Heinrich Hartwig Reinhold Freiherr von Saß Born: 11 September 1900 Died: 01 February 1946 - Executed at Velikije Luki Highest rank reached: Oberst 1./Infanterie-Rgt 5 12./Infanterie-Rgt 5 11./Infanterie-Rgt 16 9./Infanterie-Rgt 16 Infanterieregiment 37 Chef 14./Infanterie-Rgt 58 Taktiklehrer in der Heeresfliegerstammabteilung kommandiert zum Stab der 106.Infanteriedivision zur Verwendung als Bataillonskommandeur Kdr Grenadier-Rgt 277 PoW 16 January 1943 at Velikije Luki RK: 19 Dec 1942

Generalleutnant Friedrich Karl Hermann Eberhard von Scotti Born: 03 May 1889 Died: 16 Jul 1969 Artillerie-Kdr 35 Kdr 227.Infanterie-Division Höh.Art.Kdr 304 Höh.Arko 306 kdt.z. Wehrersatzinspektion Mannheim Inspekteur der Wehrersatzinspektion Mannheim DKiG: 20 November 1942 RK: 06 June 1943

Do you know who the wedding is for?

I'm afraid that the signature and citation is a fake.

Nice example. The birthday card/notice artwork is a nice addition to the set.

On behalf of member Kriegsmarine Admiral. Can you post unit details please.

Major Fritz Aigner Born: 13 Feb 1898 Offz.z.b.V. beim Lehrgang FFS (See) Warnemünde Kp.Fü. Wi.Kp FFS C11 Lehrgangsleiter FFS A/B 114 Ia Stab Lg.Kdo. XVII Flugplatzkdo. A 10/XVII FFS A/B 114 Seenotbereichskdo. (L) XII Offz.z.b.V. Seenotbereichskdo. XII Leiter Seenotbereichskdo. XII Kdr Seenotbereichskdo. XII Kdr Bergnotbereichskdo XV Source: The Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries.