Unknown with Schmundt

[Max Williams]

Does anyone know the officer with Generalmajor Schmundt in this photo taken at the nearby railway station at FHQ Rastenburg please?
Max.

[mjölnir]

Hello Max!
My first thought was WARLIMONT.
mjölnir

[Max Williams]

Thanks for the suggestion. He's too tall and the wrong rank to be Warlimont. I wonder if he's Schmundt's adjutant?
Max.

[Dieter Zinke]

Max,

Adjutant HPA (Heeres-Personalamt) was Oberstleutnant Rudolf Weiß (* 1910, + 1958),
under Schmundt and Burgdorf.
A pic would be of evidence.

Sources:
Below, Nikolaus von: Als Hitlers Adjutant 1937 - 1945, Mainz 1980
Keilig, Wolf: Rangliste des deutschen Heeres 1944/45

Dieter Z.

[Max Williams]

Thanks Dieter. Does anyone have a photo of him please?
Max.

[Silke]

Adjutant HPA (Heeres-Personalamt) was Oberstleutnant Rudolf Weiß (* 1910, + 1958),
under Schmundt and Burgdorf.
A pic would be of evidence.

I don´t have a picture of Rudolf Weiß, but the man you are trying to indentify bears a resemblance to an officer of the Army´s High Command Operational Department (Operationsabteilung des OKH) in Mauerwald/East Prussia.
A picture of an officers group from the Operational Department appears in the book "Wilczy Szaniec" by Jerzy Szynkowski on page 171. In the picture, General Heusinger is in the first row, second from the left.The officer Max is looking for could be the fourth from the left in the second row. The book doesn´t give the source of the picture, but I suppose it´s a well known photograph and has been published in several other books.
Unfortunately, I don´t have a scanner, but maybe one of our members from Poland or Germany has a copy of the book "Wilczy Szaniec"/"Wolfsschanze" and could scan the picture in order to compare it with the one posted above?

Silke

[Silke]

the man you are trying to indentify bears a resemblance to an officer of the Army´s High Command Operational Department (Operationsabteilung des OKH) in Mauerwald/East Prussia.

This is the picture I had been thinking of. Second row, third from left: Could this be the same man?
Source: Jerzy Szynkowski, Wilczy Szaniec, Ketrzyn/Rastenburg, 2001, p. 171.

Silke

[Elwyn W]

Thanks to Harmel on a completely unrelated matter, he showed me that the man with Heusinger was Obst Heinz Brandt, later GenMj and died from 20.7.44 bomb plot. Can't tell whether same man as the one walking with Schmudt

Cheers
Freiherr

[Halfdan S.]

I asked for info on Rudolf Weiss some time ago (http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=131119), got no answers, but since its up here, would like to know if anybody can help me after all?

Halfdan S.

[harmel]

Gents ref Group this is what I have Source Deutsches Soldatenjahrbuch 1994

1st 2 rows from l-r
Maj Friedrich Burmeister - Obstlt von Frankenberg - Maj Smend - Generalleutnant Adolf Heusinger - Obstlt Lassen - Oberst Heinz Brandt - Major Robert Grauer -
Kapitän zur See Konrad Weygold - Major Karl Krueckeberg - Major Hans Fhr von Tiesenhausen - Major Kuhrau.

von Frankenberg I think is Wolf von Frankenberg u. Ludwigsdorf.
Smend - Günther Smend
Lassen - is either Herrmann Lassen or Ernst-August Lassen

Regards Harmel very nice pic by the way

A little bit added by Dieter Z.

[Silke]

1st 2 rows from l-r
Maj Friedrich Burmeister - Obstlt von Frankenberg - Maj Smend - Generalleutnant Adolf Heusinger - Obstlt Lassen - Oberst Heinz Brandt - Major Robert Grauer -
Kapitän zur See Konrad Weygold - Major Karl Krueckeberg - Major Hans Fhr von Tiesenhausen - Major Kuhrau.

von Frankenberg I think is Wolf von Frankenberg u. Ludwigsdorf.
Smend - Günther Smend
Lassen - is either Herrmann Lassen or Ernst-August Lassen

Thank you, harmel, for providing the officers´ names. I didn´t have them in my book.
Best regards,

Silke