For Chris (and others with an interest in WWI German (state) mountain troops)

[GdC26]

Pics of the mountain troops exhibition currently on display at the Tilly redoubt of the Bavarian army museum in Ingolstadt.

Kind regards, 

Sandro

More pics to follow

 

[BalkanCollector]

1 hour ago, GdC26 said:

This detail with edelweiss on the pickelhaube looks absolutely amazing.
Thank you very much for sharing the photos!

[GdC26]

My pleasure. I have a pic somewhere of a similar Edelweiß device in wear, I believe by Krafft von Delmensingen. I'll see if I can find it and will post it if I do.

Some more pics as promised.

[GdC26]

4 hours ago, BalkanCollector said:

This detail with edelweiss on the pickelhaube looks absolutely amazing.
Thank you very much for sharing the photos!

As promised.

[BalkanCollector]

12 hours ago, GdC26 said:

As promised.

Very interesting photos, thank you again for sharing them!

Do you happen to know where the photo was taken? It looks a bit familiar to me.

[GdC26]

13 minutes ago, BalkanCollector said:

Very interesting photos, thank you again for sharing them!

Do you happen to know where the photo was taken? It looks a bit familiar to me.

I'm afraid I don't, but seem to recall seeing the pic in one of two books I acquired this year. I'll look for it if time permits and will let you know if it gives a venue for the photograph.

[GdC26]

7 hours ago, GdC26 said:

I'm afraid I don't, but seem to recall seeing the pic in one of two books I acquired this year. I'll look for it if time permits and will let you know if it gives a venue for the photograph.

I've checked the references I had in mind, but unfortunately could not find what I was looking for.

[BalkanCollector]

1 hour ago, GdC26 said:

I've checked the references I had in mind, but unfortunately could not find what I was looking for.

Don't bother, it probably just looks like any central European town to me.  Thank you for your trouble!

[Bayern]

Thanks for share,very interesting! ,regarding the place of the picture of Emperor Karl with General Kraft ,a posibility is Cernauti or Czernovitz in the Bukowina,July !917 when the German Mountain Troops were under command of the Archduke Joseph and reconquered the City. 

[Christian1962]

I could just give a time frame for the pic:

EH Karl was promoted to Generaloberst effective with 01.11.1916. Here he is still General der Kavallerie. 

On 26.05.1916 he got the allowance to wear the prussian Pour le merité.

This should narrow down the time frame for the pic to May - October 1916. Krafft was under EH Karl´s command from September/October 1916. I would assume the pic was taken then.

Sorry no hint for the town.

Regards

Christian

Edited November 26, 2019 by Christian1962

[Bayern]

Hello, Thanks for your time frame . I forgot that EH Karl was Kaiser Karl in 1917 when the reconquest of Cernauti.

[GdC26]

I knew I had seen the pic recently somewhere other than in my collection. Check out: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1916_-_Albert_Reich_-_Transilvania,_intalnire_arhiducele_Carol_cu_generalul_Kraft_la_Cisnadie_p12.jpg, which gives the location as Cisnădie, Romania, and identifies the third person as PLM awardee Friedrich Wilhelm Willisen.

Kind regards, 

Sandro

[GreyC]

Hi,

Cisnadie=Heltau. The photo was also published in "Durch Siebenbürgen und Rumänien" by Albert Reich p 12.
The photographer belonged to a press-agency. The photo seems to have been sold/distributed as I know of other copies around.

GreyC

Edited November 27, 2019 by GreyC

[Bayern]

Hello GreyC . The most probable origin of the photo is from the footage taked at the eastern front by the Vienese Cinematograph Company Sascha Films .owned by Count Alexander Sascha Kolowrat.

[GdC26]

Check the link, it given the name of the photographer as Menzel.

Kind regards,

Sandro.

 

[Chris Boonzaier]

Fantastic !!!! I really have to get there and it is not that far away....

[GdC26]

9 hours ago, Chris Boonzaier said:

Fantastic !!!! I really have to get there and it is not that far away....

Yes, it's well worth the visit - this is just a small part of the display at redoubt Tilly (across the Donau from the main museum). They have an excellent, Bavaria focussed, 35 room WWI exhibition there as well. Impossible to photograph properly because of the glass and the lighting, but quite impressive.

Kind regards,

 Sandro

[ccj]

Beautiful 

[GdC26]

More field grey (and in part, high ranking) tunics from the exhibition for Charles and others interested in those. Enjoy!

[ccj]

Wow, the von prittwitz tunic is amazing. 

[GdC26]

I agree, but I was also a bit surprised by the crude details. Here is some more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2019 by GdC26

[ccj]

What pattern shoulderboards are attached to Leopold tunic?

[GdC26]

Bavarian fieldmarshall boards as far as I can see, with the typical Bavarian style crossed batons.

 

[ccj]

They look thicker than the later patterns to me but may be the viewing angle 

[Bayern]

17 hours ago, GdC26 said:

Yes, it's well worth the visit - this is just a small part of the display at redoubt Tilly (across the Donau from the main museum). They have an excellent, Bavaria focussed, 35 room WWI exhibition there as well. Impossible to photograph properly because of the glass and the lighting, but quite impressive.

Kind regards,

 Sandro

Hello Gentlemen ,to me this tunic belonged to King Ludwig III ,he was a man of ample waist 

10 hours ago, GdC26 said:

More field grey (and in part, high ranking) tunics from the exhibition for Charles and others interested in those. Enjoy!

Hello Gentlemen, General maximilian von Prittwitz was a tall and thick man , the tunic doesnt fits with him