I'm SUCH A Fan: The PLM Duke & The Tobacco Diplomat

[Guest Rick Research]

Reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, General der Infanterie and Pour le Merite recipient Ernst II (1871-1955):

Huge original wartime autographed photo of a reigning monarch. Note that although he was a full General, he is not wearing Generals' collar tabs.

Just an anonymous, undated photo...

[Guest Rick Research]

... not.

Cover letter from the Duke's Hofmarschall, Major aD Wolf "von Breitenbuch" (1869-19??) retruning this photo with requested royal autograph, 4 May 1918:

So-- who and what was "Konsul" Katz?

Well, from the Berlin city directory entry following, he was probably from a Christian Baden family--

The "South German Tobacco Newsppaper" points in that direction.

But Consul for who? He is not listed in Prussian, Reichs, or Baden Court and State Handbooks. I couldn't find him in the Almanach de Gotha 1917 Court and State, suggesting that he was an honoray consul of one of the (south? ) German states in Berlin, rather than for a foreign country.

That's all I've been able to find this morning.

[Deruelle]

What a beauty Rick

Christophe