Portrait postcard

[Gerd Becker]

Hello Gentlemen,

i found this photo-postcard on the Fleamarket today and i would like to ask you to help with his name. As far as i can read it its:

" Dr. jur. Adolf ?? H???pel als Lt. d. Res. im bayr. Feld.Art.Rgt. in W?rzburg"

Can someone help with the name?

Thanks in advance

Gerd

[Gerd Becker]

Here is it complete:

From which period is this photo?

[Gerd Becker]

Reverse:

Thanks for looking

Gerd

[webr55]

Nice find! That is Dr. jur. Adolf ten Hompel (1874-1943), a lawyer from M?nster who became known in the years before 1914 for publishing extensively in favor of reforming Catholicism.

[joe campbell]

is this a Dutch name?

love the postcard!

joe

[Gerd Becker]

Thanks, Chris

Joe, sounds like a Dutch name to me as well.

Gerd

[webr55]

Thanks, Chris

Joe, sounds like a Dutch name to me as well.

Gerd

Not really Dutch, as far as I know. Rather Friesian (North German) origin.

[Gerd Becker]

Not really Dutch, as far as I know. Rather Friesian (North German) origin.

Indeed, you could be right. Friesian names are often very similar to Dutch or also English names. Actually i allways thought of Dutch to be a hotchpotch of Dutch and English.

What would you have paid for this card? Just want to know, if i did right

Thanks again

Gerd

[Guest Rick Research]

Oh Lord, he was even more boring than my writer of "mountain novels!"

In Wer Ist's? 1935:

Born Recklinghausen 15 June 1874 son of "Gro?industrialist" August ten Hompel and Henrietta Wicking. He married Maria Strunk of Recklingshausen and had: Adolf, Maria, Elisabeth, Irmgard, and Carl-Gregor.

Lt. d.R. 13 May 1899 in Bavarian Feldartillerie Regiment 11. This is a pre-1905 photo since no Luitpold Jubilee Medal. In 1913 he'd gone to the Landwehr II, still same rank, with 1905 Luitpold Jubilee and Bavarian LD2. (No mention of ANY military service in his Wer Ist's, and no Crown anyway to any possible BMV4X)

His pseudonym for his works was "Hermann Wahroder."

[Gerd Becker]

Oh Lord, he was even more boring than my writer of "mountain novels!"

In Wer Ist's? 1935:

Born Recklinghausen 15 June 1874 son of "Gro?industrialist" August ten Hompel and Henrietta Wicking. He married Maria Strunk of Recklingshausen and had: Adolf, Maria, Elisabeth, Irmgard, and Carl-Gregor.

Lt. d.R. 13 May 1899 in Bavarian Feldartillerie Regiment 11. This is a pre-1905 photo since no Luitpold Jubilee Medal. In 1913 he'd gone to the Landwehr II, still same rank, with 1905 Luitpold Jubilee and Bavarian LD2. (No mention of ANY military service in his Wer Ist's, and no Crown anyway to any possible BMV4X)

His pseudonym for his works was "Hermann Wahroder."

Thanks, Rick. Maria Strunk von Recklinghausen, thats too funny.

Ah, a pseydomym, thats why i couldn?t find anything about him.

Gerd