Pickelhaube M95 Hessen Fahnrich Leib Garde Inf. Regt. 115

Adler

Adler

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To continue with the Hessian Family: here is my M95 Hessen Fahnrich Leib Garde Inf. Regt. 115... Actually this was the first Hessian helmet in my collection... Since then, I've never known another one for sale...
Maybe someone can decifre the name on the inside?

Adler















 
Another nice one! Yeah, can't quite make out the name... nice E,G,F capital letter there. Funk? Fink? Frank? Gank? Ganle? I dunno... I doesn't say "Poniatowski", that much is certain.

:D Ron
 
Thank you for your comments my friends!
Ron, I think I need to learn more about this old German writing...

Adler
 
This looks like Gaul, if you accept that the name begins and ends with a flourish. Gaul certainly is a German name.

What a very, very nice pickelhaube!
 
I'm not so sure that's actually a G, it looks more like a Z to me.

I looked in the 1914 Rangliste for anyone named Gaul. I only found 4 and none were in Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment (1. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr.115.

Oberleutnant Gaul, Füsilier-Regiment Prinz Heinrich von Preußen (1. Brandenburgisches) Nr.35 but on assignment with the Army of Japan.

Oberleutnant Gaul, Landwehrbezirk II Coln, 2. Aufgebot, a Feldartillerie officer.

Leutnant d. R. Gaul, Königin Augusta Garde-Grenadier-Regiment Nr.4

The very last one, though, might be promising. At least he's in a Hessian regiment and perhaps he started out in 115 and transferred later......

Leutnant d. R. Gaul, Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Wilhelm (2. Großherzoglich Hessisches) Nr.116
 
The writing looks like Sütterlin, a typical Prussian way of writing that replaced the old Kanzleischrifture officially in 1915, but in use long before that date. Developed by Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917). The last letter is then a b, not an l.
By the way, Sütterlin-writing was forbidden by Hitler in 1941 and was replaced by the modern Antiqua for propaganda purposes, just like the very popular Gothic Fraktur at that time.
Johan
 
For those interested in old German handwriting:

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Lese/Kanzlei1.htm

Remark: the supposed G could well be a Z in old Kanzleischrift, meaning that the name would be Zaub and not Gaul.

Anyhow, very, very nice helmet.

Johan
 
Thank you very much for your input gentlemen! You guys have been very helpfull with this; I'll try to find out more abaut the original owner... if possible...

Adler
 
A question to all of you experienced collectors:

I have a Grenadiermütze M1894 with a wearer's name in it on a cloth tag and I wondered how I could get information about that particular Grenadier. Logically, my first thought is the Bundesarchiv. Does anyone have information how to get in contact with instances that can help me? Thank you very much.
Johan
 
09fritz2547 said:
// how I could get information about that particular Grenadier.
Click to expand...

Johan,

You cannot. All personnel rosters and card indices (Stammrollen und
Karteimittel) of the Prussian Army, the transition army ("Ubergangsheeres), the Army Reichswehr), and the Imperial Navy (Kaiserlichen Marine) were burned in an air raid on Berlin in February 1945.

Preserved are medical records of those soldiers who were being treated in military hospitals (Lazarett). The records, most with personnel roster extracts (Stammrollenausz"ugen), for those born from 1890 on are stored at

Krankenbuchlager Berlin
Wattstrasse 11-13
3355 Berlin

and for those born before 1890 are stored at

Bundesarchiv - Milit"ararchiv
Wiesentalstrasse 10
79115 Freiburg/Breisgau

Sadly, as a rule, all official documentation of the men of the Imperial German Armies is gone. Forever.
 
So too with the WW1 BEF....most were either destroyed or water damaged as a result of the London Blitz. Thus I can not get a true picture of my Scottish grandfather, John Fosters' service in the Highland Light Infantry.
 
A nice photo to go with this beautiful helmet.

nco115th.jpg
 
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