Interesting one year volunteer group, KB translate please

joerookery

joerookery

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This is a really interesting group of one year volunteers.
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What makes it interesting is that it is like a class of volunteers showing that one year volunteers in the same grouping could have different ranks -- -- all enlisted.
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The problem is the writing on the back has one keyword I cannot translate.
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What does this word say?
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Which test was it? Help what does that word say?
 
Joe

Perhaps its a very long word "einjahrigeninterricht"?? I don't know what this would mean but interricht means "inter-arranged". What I also thought was interesting in the other ranks litewka the NCO with the white pants is wearing.

Regards

Dave
 
Kjell-Bjarne said:
Joe,
The word appears to be Einjährigenunterricht, i.e. training.

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K-B
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If we separes the word, we have this: Ein jährigen unterricht. Literally we have the following translation: "A year old teaches". Does that make sense for you Joe?

Otto
 
Joe, I forgot to mention that Unterricht implies classroom instruction. The text translates as:
Prior to one-year (volunteer) training.
From left to right
(list of names)

Hope this helps,
K-B
 
Thanks Dave, Otto and KB.

I didn't realize the teaching and classroom end of this but it makes sense. All of these guys are holding books. All of them except the two NCOs with the white pants. Those two gentlemen are also one year volunteers. So you get the impression that the two NCOs are in charge or teaching. But how? One year volunteers entered as a class. Classes did not overlap. There was such a thing as a multiple year volunteer, but I know little about them. If this is at the start of training. The question is, what training? Late August? Start of the training? I have to give this one some thought.
 
Joe,

The text on the card isn't much to go on. A better translation might be simply "Before class." Were it a true "class photo" taken on the first day of training, for example, I would expect it to read "Vor der Einjährigenausbildung." This seems to me to be a snapshot taken one day before class.

The NCOs are themselves wearing candy-striped shoulder boards, so I don't think they are instructors. I may be wrong, of course. I seem to remember reading somewhere that one-year volunteers could enter the service at different ranks, .i.e, enlisted, Unteroffizier, or even Fähnrich. I'm working from memory, but I'll try to find the source on that.

As to the training they received, I can't imagine it was the same as the normal 2- or 3-year recruits had. First, their service was much shorter. Surely they received accelerated training? Secondly, their education level was much higher than the average recruit's. Not only did they come from middle-class (as opposed to working-class) families, they also had the Abitur and in some cases several years of university study.

To illustrate my point, take Friedrich Nietzsche: he began his university studies 1864, but didn't begin his one-year service until 1867. He served in a mounted field artillery unit in Naumburg (which meant he could live at home during his service!). In 1868 he was offered a chair at the University in Basel which he accepted in 1869. One must keep in mind that this is the calibre of people we are dealing with here.

Keep digging, Joe. You come up with the most fasciniting stuff! :D

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K-B
 
Joe,

normally a "one Year Volunteer" entered service on the 1st of October although the intake was possible on the 1st of April on the order of corps headquarters

After three months service in the company/squadron/battery they would then attend special practical and theoretical instruction under the supervision of an especially competent officer. Those one Year Volunteers who after a minimum of six months service displayed the necessary good conduct and knowledge could be promoted to supernumary Gefreiter. Those who displayed exceptional promise and had a minimum of nine months service could be promoted to supernumary Unteroffizier. Bearing in mind your photograph dates from August this is the likely answer as to why these two gentleman were one Year Volunteer Unteroffiziere in the same class as their collegues.

Shortly before the end of the years service all took the reserve officers' examination. Those who were successful were appointed reserve officer aspirants on discharge to the reserve and if they did not already hold the rank of Unteroffizier were at this stage promoted to that supernumary rank.

Regards
Glenn
 
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