dwmosher Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Wie gehts: I am looking for information and hopefully a photo of Hptmn d R. Hans Zeidler who received his leutnants patent in 1894 with JR 103, became a captain in 1908 with LGR 100, and died in 1915 while serving with Res JR 243. Thanks Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOK4 Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I checked the regimental history of RIR 243 and didn't find a picture of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Dave, from the Offizier-Stammliste of LGR 100. Regards Glenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Dave, P.S. What makes you think he was an Hauptmann d.R.? Hans Zeidler was an active officer. Regards Glenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmosher Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Glenn: Thanks for your reply. I have been having trouble sending pictures to this thread but here is a picture of the label in Zeidler's M1910 officer's LGR 100 waffenrock. Maybe it isn't the same guy, but there is only one Hptmn Zeidler of the LGR 100 in the 1914 Saxon rank lists or the LGR 100 regimental history. Hope you can make sense of it Dave Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmosher Posted December 20, 2011 Author Share Posted December 20, 2011 Glenn: Thanks for your reply. I have been having trouble sending pictures to this thread but here is a picture of the label in Zeidler's M1910 officer's LGR 100 waffenrock. Maybe it isn't the same guy, but there is only one Hptmn Zeidler of the LGR 100 in the 1914 Saxon rank lists or the LGR 100 regimental history. Hope you can make sense of it Dave Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn J Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Dave, I think it probably is just a tailor's error. Hans Zeidler was the only officer in the Saxon Army in the rank of Hauptmann in 1911 when that tunic was manufactured. An Oberleutnant d.R. was on the books of the Karabinier-Regiment and an Oberarzt d.R. in Landwehrbezirk II Leipzig. Regards Glenn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmosher Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Thanks Glen. From what I have able to glean, he had received the Saxe-Ernsteine House Order (knights badge 1st class), by 1914. He received his EK2 at Bertoncourt on 8/30/14, recieved the Albert Order w/ swords on 10/31/14 and was transfered to RIR 243 about that time. He was wounded at Frezenberg on 5/11/15, recieved the EK1 on 5/16/15 and died in a hospital on 7/21/15, at the age of 43. Is there anything else to fill in the gaps? Here is the tunic. Dave Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Super tunic! Here is a thought.... we mostly assume that officers were wealthy and had money to burn. Is it possible that an officers tunic had two owners in its lifetime? i.e. that an officer retiring or getting a little pudgy in 1912 could get something in exchange for his tunic from a tailor... who then refurbishes it for another officer... Wartime commisions or some of the younger reserve officers may not have been that wealthy... and an almost new tunic, even if the old label is in... may have been a cheaper way to go... Best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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