Frhr v.der Osten-Sacken

[Luke]

Hi guys - just picked up this photo - unfortunately no medalbar and only a fairly standard Überrock being worn. Pretty interesting, dedication on the back s/l Lange and dated 1898, photographer is out of Breslau.

I know its quite a bit later, but the only resource I have handy right now is a 1914 ranklist - and hey, he looks fairly young, maybe he stuck it out that long and is one of the two listed there.

-One is a Hauptmann in IR 129

-One is a Rittmeister in JzP Regt 13

My possibly crazy logic is if it is one of these two guys, the photo being taken in Breslau perhaps our Rittmeister was formerly a member of the Leib-Kürassier-Regt. Großer Kurfürst (Schlesisches) Nr.1 before at some point moving onto the JzP - one lobster tail to another, seems like a reasonable transition

Maybe some can can assist - or spoil my entire theory and my night by adding another of the clan into the mix that my puny resource library is missing

Cheers,

Luc

[Luke]

Sorry in advance I've had to crop the pics like crazy to get in under the size limit. I chopped rear in half to get inscription in

[Luke]

Last part of inscription

[Guest Rick Research]

Unfortunately without being able to see rank insignia, I don't have any hope for this. In the 1898 Rank List there was no one by this name actually resident in Breslau, nor was a single one of the possible "suspects" in a regiment with anyone of the same rank named Lange--

Hauptmann IR 98 detached to Great General Staff

Hauptmann 1st Guard Field Art Rgt

Secondelieutenants in

Grenadier Regiment 1, Inf Rgt 99, Ulan Rgt 6, and a SecLt Frh vdO-S und von Rhein in Field Art Rgt 18.

With nothing to identify who Lange was, nothing to sort him out.

[Luke]

Ah well - thanks Rick

[Chip]

Wasn't the author of "Deutschlands Armee in feldgrauer Kriegs- und Friedens-Uniform" an Oberlt. a.D. Freiherr v.d.Osten-Sacken u.v.Rhein. Any relation?

Chip