Looks like a postcard and picture from Dr. Max Kemmerich

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Looks like this postcard was written by Max Kemmerich the author! The signature is a very good match. Is he shown on the front talking to the young Prince Luitpold v Bayern who died of polio?
Luitpold Maximilian Ludwig Karl (Bamberg 8 May 1901-Berchtesgaden 27 Aug 1914)

A gathering of royalty from Bavaria for a birthday celebration in 1912. This is before Ludwig became king.

Dr. Max Kemmerich spent a lifetime studying those things in society that were, if not unique, weird. His book on The History of Prophesy is still a major source book. He covered a number of famous individuals in the book on prophesy, including Michel Nostradamus, Christian Heering, Jacques Cazotte (Cazotte was allegedly connected to the Illuminati), Johann Adam Müller, and Fraü de Ferriem.

He was also pretty well known for his work on stupidity, Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit, which was published the same year as the postcard.

He also wrote:
Kultur-Kuriosa
Dinge, die man nicht sagt
Das Kausalgesetz der Weltgeschichte
Machiavelli und seine Zeit
Das Weltbild des Mystikers

A real personality to say the least.


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What a treat, thanks Joe, one of the best picture / narratives I've seen for a long while.

I wonder if his book on stupidity is akin to the Darwin Awards or does he take a more earnest approach?
 
Max Kemmerich was originally a career Pionier officer winning the EK2 as a Portepee-Fähnrich in the 1. Feld-Pionier-Kompanie of 7. Armeekorps during the Franco-German War. He left active service around about 1880 and was then a Reserve Officer in the Garde-Pionier-Bataillon. He retired from reserve service between 1884 and 1886.

Regards
Glenn
 

ps386b by joerookery, on Flickr

Assuming this is the guy–which I think is a reasonable assumption–this is a Prussian helmet for certain but I do not think for a pioneer. Looks more like a Beamte doesn't it???

:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: :-k :-k
 
Joe

it does like like a Beamten Eagle on the helmet plate? Dr. Kemmerich is listed in the 1908/09 Ordens-Almanach as Oberleutnant a.D. and Turkish General Consul in Münich.

Regards
Glenn
 
The Eagle is not very clear but there are square visors and it looks like a cruciform base. On the same picture this young guy is an object lesson. This was the oldest son of Rupprecht. And yet he was an artillery unit. Bavarians were certainly different than Prussians.


ps331 by joerookery, on Flickr
 
This comes from an individual named Adrian–it is complete and explains everything is I just had stars in my eyes!

Joe,
"Your" Max Kemmerich is the father of the author Dr Max Kemmerich (who was only 36 in 1912 - the chap in the photo is obviously older!).

See these two separate entries in Pantheon: Adreßbuch der Kunst- und Antiquitäten-Sammler und -Händler, Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen, Kunst-, Altertums- und Geschichtsvereine, Bücherliebhaber, Numismatiker, 1914:


ps386c by joerookery, on Flickr

KomR = Kommerzienrat, "Councillor of Commerce" - an honorary title http://de.wikipedia....i/Kommerzienrat

The first is Max Kemmerich senior, Consul General [for Turkey] in Munich. The address is the same as that printed on your card.
(By the way, the addressee, the Turkish cavalry lieutenant Ismail Hakki Bey Tewfik, was the son of the Ottoman Ambassador to London.)

The second entry is Max Kemmerich junior, the author. He appears as Rittmeister der Reserve in the Bavarian military rolls on Ancestry under 15th Division Staff, Reserve-Kavallerie-Regiment Nr.1, Chevauleger-Regimenter 3 and 4, and 1. Fußartillerie-Regiment.
His personal details are as follows:
Name: Max Kemmerich
Religion: Protestant
Place & date of birth: Koblenz/Rhein, Preußen, 6 May 1876
Occupation: Dr. phil., Rittmeister der Reserve
Marital status: Divorced, 2 children
Parents: Mathilde & Max Kemmerich, Hauptmann a.D., kaiserlich türkischer Generalkonsul, München

Adrian
 
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