Prussian Garde Reserve Officer with name tag and cover

J.LeBrasseur

J.LeBrasseur

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Just got this one from an new collector friend in Wisconsin, it is a awesome helmet with zinc parts and a wonderful kicker, a name tag on the inside of the silk liner, never seen this placement of a name tag before.

Looks like it has never been cleaned and I plan to leave it that way.

As a bonus kicker it came with its original cover.

Anyone got any info on this guy on their ranklists?

thanks

James

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I don't find him in the 1914 Rangliste.
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Do they have reserve officers in there Mike? I mean, the tag really works down the Regiment. GGR3....

James,

Everyone has nice stuff but me..... :hiding: Very nice. :computer: :thumb up:
 
joerookery said:
I don't find him in the 1914 Rangliste.
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Do they have reserve officers in there Mike? I mean, the tag really works down the Regiment. GGR3....
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Joe,

Yes, they have a listing of reserve officers for GGR3 but there's no officer by that name in the 1914 Rangliste for any unit that I could find.
 
He is not in the Gotha which I believe means he is not noble. The name Wunderlich is the same as a major supplier of pickelhauben. It makes no sense to me that a supplier would have a bin for helmets of lieutenants, as opposed to officers in general. Nor a bin for this specific regiment but who knows? Perhaps he is a very rich non-noble which would explain this regiment.

The regimental history would help.....
 
Joe,

I have to apologize, I think I had a senior moment. I had said that there were no Wunderlich's in the rangliste, but somehow I missed them. There are quite a few listed, but none for that regiment. There's one major, one hauptmann, one oberleutnant, and seven leutnants. Most of them are Landwehr officers.
 
Bob Lemke posted this information on GMIC.

Generally you can find (pre-war) reserve officers. As Mike Dwyer stated, in a pre-war Rangliste there will be a section listing the reserve officers still associated with their regiments, and in a later section who by now already have been transferred to a Landwehr Bezirk. Flying on memory, I think that the first section will list the reserve officers by seniority, although it does not give the precise seniority by "date of rank", so you can sort of "reverse engineer" your search to find the (generally) two-year period of active duty for that officer in an earlier Rangliste, say, the 1908 Rangliste. (Thruout this discussion I am assuming that we are talking about the preuss./wuerttem. Ranglisten, which covered most of the German officer corps.) The Rangliste covering his period of active duty will have more info on him, such as his seniority date of rank, the curious little seniority code that went with the DOR from about 1900 on, decorations, etc.

But if a guy was made a reserve officer after August 1914, without having been on active duty in a line regiment before the war, good luck in finding him anywhere. The Ehrenrangliste 1914-1918, published in 1926, covers all the four armies, but does not include reserve officers.
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The most likely candidate was Leutnant der Reserve Wunderlich (page 704) carried on the rolls of 3. Westpreussisches Infanterie=Regiment Nr. 129. on
May 6, 1914. He reported to Bezirk III Berlin, which suggests that he lived in Berlin at that time. But his regiment was garrisoned in Graudenz, West Prussia. Let me note that, at this time, only four of the perhaps 60 officers of this regiment were "von"s,
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