Officers
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Great picture!
istanbulian
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Nice to see chinstraps actually being used as such; as such something of a rarity ?
peter h said:
Chinscales to be exact. Great photo, must have been windy that day....
Once again revisiting old threads, I decided to attempt to ID this group. What is clear, is that at least some of them are from 14. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 179 in 1912. In the centre, we can see the then Oberst and regimental commander Karl Lucius, later Generalleutnant and temporary commander of XIX. Armee-Korps. The commander of his II. Battalion, Major Alfred Müller (later Reichsheer Generalleutnant) is easily identified by his Spanish Military Merit Order 2nd Class on his left breast. I am tentatively identifying the tall field officer to the regimental commander's left as Major Fritz v. Kirchbach of 7. Infanterie-Regiment "König Georg" Nr. 106. He is also wearing a Spanish Military Merit Order, albeit the 1st Class on the end position of his medal bar and although slightly blurry, his decorations appear to fit including the Prussian Johanniter Order.
http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/aka/lucius.htm
Regards
Glenn
http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/aka/lucius.htm
Regards
Glenn
joerookery
Well-known member
As usual amazing. And thank you. :thumb up:
At long last I have got around to Peter's blurry Württembergers. The starting point was the assumption that it was a brigade with one of the two Württemberg Grenadier Regiments sometime after 1897. The first piece of the puzzle to fall into place was the Prussian Oberst with both a Johanniter and the Württemberg Crown Order pinback: Oberst Franz Nowina von Axt, commander of Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 124. The sister regiment in the 53. Infanterie-Brigade was Grenadier-Regiment Nr. 123 which lead to Oberst Oskar v. Scharpf. Again a holder of the Württemberg Crown Order Ehrenkreuz but the clincher is that Persian Order of the Sun and Lion on the extreme left of his medal bar. And lastly the Brigade Commander himself: the then Generalmajor Ernst v. Hoiningen gen. Huene. Photo dates from the early part of 1903.
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Glenn
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Glenn
joerookery
Well-known member
You amaze me.
Thanks Joe,
here are a couple of comparison photographs of Messrs Nowina and Scharpf. Scharpf's Lion and sun is clearer in this picture depicting him as a Generalmajor. Oberst Nowina von Axt is wearing exactly the same decorations in this photograph (still taken in Weingarten) in the uniform of Füsilier-Regiment Nr. 80 as he prepares to take up his new appointment as commander of Truppen-Übungsplatz Neuhammer.
Regards
Glenn
here are a couple of comparison photographs of Messrs Nowina and Scharpf. Scharpf's Lion and sun is clearer in this picture depicting him as a Generalmajor. Oberst Nowina von Axt is wearing exactly the same decorations in this photograph (still taken in Weingarten) in the uniform of Füsilier-Regiment Nr. 80 as he prepares to take up his new appointment as commander of Truppen-Übungsplatz Neuhammer.
Regards
Glenn