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    Reichswehr pic with some PLM guys - questions


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    HI again,

    I got the following photo /postcard a few days ago.

    Unfortunately no names and no dates.

    The card shows some guys of the Reichswehr.

    I know some of the faces especially in the 1st line but i don`t know the names.

    I tried to ID some guys - here are my possibilities:

    1st line 3rd of left: von Blomberg, later Reichswehrminister

    1st line 4rd of left: (later) General  von Lossberg

    J = Alfred Jodl ?

    S = later Fieldmarshal Hugo Sperrle

    Sch = Kurt von Schleicher

    R = may be later SA leader Ernst Röhm

    F = Alexander von Falkenhausen

    X = i know their faces, but not their names.

    Any idea????

    Thanks for help.

     

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    I did a marking on other named guys.

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    J is NOT Alfred Jodl. Also, I don't think R is Ernst Röhm.

    First row 4th from the left is Friedrich von Cochenhausen (see photo below for comparison). Note: Around the neck is the Johanniter-Order and NOT the Pour le Merite.

    First row 5th from the left is Gerd von Rundstedt.

    First row 7th from the left is Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.

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    Hi, thank you both.

    I think the fat guy behind "Jodl" is Kurt von  Hammerstein-Equord.

    The general in mid of first line is wearing a PLM.

    von Rundstedt is wearing the shoulderboards of an Oberst (colonel), so the pic must have been taken between 1923- 1926

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    Some more ID's thanks to my friend:

    1 - Albrecht Steppuhn
    2 - 
    3 - Werner von Blomberg
    4 - Friedrich von Cochenhasen
    5 - Gerd von Rundstedt
    6 - Otto Hasse
    7 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
    8 - 
    9 - Walter von Unruh
    10 - Werner Freiherr von Fritsch
    11 - Eugen Müller
    12 - 
    13 - Alfred Wäger
    14 - Kurt von Schleicher
    15 - Joachim von Stülpnagel
    16 - 
    17 - Wilhelm Adam (1877-1949)
    18 -
    19 -
    20 - 
    21 - 
    22 -
    23 - 
    24 - Hermann Franke
    25 - Fedor von Bock
    26 - 
    27 - Friedrich von Boetticher
    28 - Hans Schmidt (1877-1948)
    29 - Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord
    30 -
    31 - Wilhelm Vollmar (or Vollmer)
    32 - Hugo Sperrle
    33 - Ludwig Beck
    34 - Bernhard Steinmetz

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    Wow, that´s  awesome. Thank you very much.

    # 19 - i would nearly bet: Eberhard von Mackensen (he was the son of Feldmarschall Mackensen) and member of

    Braunschweiger Totenkopfhusarenrgt (see pin on his cap)

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    "The civil guy" on the right next to 29 - first i thought it could be Martin Bormann

    but in around 1925 i think he would be too young.

    Number 12 wears a Baden decoration´s ribbon + Iron cross.

    I know that face - could it be a pilot of a Sanke card?

    # 26 is definitely von Falkenhausen.

    # 2 has the rank of a Korvettenkapitän.

    Edited by ixhs
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