Open season on identification

I think I identified this gentleman on another thread where you posted this same photo. I'm 98% sure he's an officer of the Danish Royal Life Guard Regiment.
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I have had several e-mails confirming that this guy is from the Danish unit. No individual identification. The museum guy has not answered. Maybe it is my breath. :clock: :clock:
 
Very nice photo with a clear small sized Landwehr cross and a Waterloo Bando. However, the guy has a medal that is not from Prussia and the picture was taken in Braunschweig. Which unit???


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joerookery said:
Maybe Glenn or someone can do something with the name? the sword hilt means he is Prussian–yes?
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Joe,

Yes, that's a Prussian sword. Don't know if it's the same guy or not, but there's a Leutnant Lauter in the 1914 Rangliste in Infanterie-Regiment Graf Tauentzien von Wittenburg (3. Brandenburgisches) Nr.20.
 
Joe

as Mike says, there is a Leutnant Lauter in the 1914 Rangliste. In fact, he is the only officer of that rank in that edition and is a Leutnant der Reserve. Herr Lauter was commissioned as such on 24.3.09 and was an architect living in Berlin. If memory serves me right, this photograph appeared in an article in the Zeitschrift für Heereskunde in the eighties regarding his armband made of adjutant braid. Andrew Mollo and Pierre Turner used some artistic licence in their 1977 Army Uniforms of World War 1 to depict him as a General Staff Hauptmann.

Regards
Glenn
 
Joe

I checked through the ZfH and found the article in the May/June edition of 1984.

On doing a bit of digging I found that Herr Lauter of I.R. 20 was killed as an Hauptmann der Reseve in R.I.R. 24 on 12 July 1918 at Plessier. However, a bit of a problem; his forname is given as Paul on the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. site.


Regards
Glenn
 
Your memory is doing a great job! I wonder if these are two different guys?

The reserve thing is puzzling to me.
 
Joe

I found two more suspects. Both commissioned as Leutnants der Reserve in late 1914:

Leutnant der Reserve Lauter of R.I.R. 69 on 4.10.14
Leutnant der Reserve Lauter of I.R. 137 on 24.12.14

I don't see a problem of a reserve officer being a battalion adjutant in an active regiment after the initial period of the war.

Regards
Glenn
 
All these look pretty promising. This is like reading a murder mystery! Isn't it top to chase down these reserve officers?
 
Joe

Very nice photo with a clear small sized Landwehr cross and a Waterloo Bando. However, the guy has a medal that is not from Prussia and the picture was taken in Braunschweig. Which unit???
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I would think either I.R. 74 or I.R. 77. A quick look at the 1914 Rangliste shows several reserve officers from those regiments on the books of Landwehrbezirke I and II Braunschweig. I.R. 78 also a possibility.

All these look pretty promising. This is like reading a murder mystery! Isn't it top to chase down these reserve officers?
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I think we can discount I.R. 20 Lauter as I have corroborated his first name as Paul through another source and I have R.I.R. 69 Lauter as Adalbert.

Regards
Glenn
 
Joe,

The older fellow on the left may be King George V of Hanover, the last reigning king; but I'm thinking it may be his father, King Ernst August I (mainly because of the large mutton chop sideburns). If the one on the left is Ernst August I then the fellow on the right side is the last reigning king of Hanover, George V. The young man at the top should be Crown Prince Ernst August, George V's son, but he looks more like Prince Ernst August, later duke of Brunswick, who married the Kaiser's daughter Princess Victoria.
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Mike Dwyer
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from Marlene Koenig
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I think it is the Hannover royal family in the 1860s or so. Ernst August at the top (who later married Thyra), Queen Marie in the middle, Friederike and Marie. The guy on the right:: Georg V and on the left Ernst August, Duke of Cumberland, son of George III, who succeeded to Hannover in 1837 ...
 

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I cannot identify this field artillery guy–however, there is a cipher/monogram on the back of the card which might be the same as the shoulder patch?!?!
What do you think the unit is?


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Interesting spike base.
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