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Officers with Hitler......??

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Post by lohengrin » 30 Dec 2002, 22:03

Hi Guys,

I am trying to id these two German officers. I went through several books and references and still I am not able to find their names. I know that 66 is Major and 67 is a Colonel, but who are they?

Also, on this first picture; could you tell me who are the men with Hitler (I do recognize Goring - large person on Hitler's right - and von Blomberg).

Thanks, and Happy New Year!!!!

Clara
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Post by Gareth Collins » 31 Dec 2002, 01:35

The Officer next to hitler and in the dntre of the shot is GFM Werner von Blomberg. Göring is the unmistakable figure peering through the bonoculars, and i think i see Milch, second right. I think the general looking at Göing is Lucht.
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Post by JC » 31 Dec 2002, 05:30

67 is Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels.

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Hupfer & von Waldenfels

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Post by Michael Miller » 31 Dec 2002, 05:41

Here's the basic info. on 66.jpg & 67.jpg.

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66.jpg:

Oberstleutnant Konrad Hupfer
* 21. October 1911 in Altdorf bei Nürnberg / Mittelfranken / Bayern.
+ 10. April 1944 near Aloskoje, Eastern Front (Killed in Action as Major; posthumously promoted Oberstleutnant)

Ritterkreuz (513) am 21.09.1941 als Hauptmann und Chef der 14.Kompanie / Infanterie-Regiment 72 / 46.Infanterie-Division / XXX.Armee-Korps / 11.Armee / Heeresgruppe Süd

136.Eichenlaub am 28.10.1942 als Hauptmann und KOmmandeur des I.Bataillon / Infanterie-Regiment 72 / XXXXIX.Gebirgs-Korps / 17.Armee / Heeresgruppe A (direkte Verleihung)

EK II 20.09.1939
EK I 08.06.1940
DKiG (135/3) 14.06.1942
Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42"



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Generalleutnant Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels

* 23. September 1895 in Ingolstadt / Bayern.
+ 14. August 1969 in Rottach-Eggern.

Ritterkreuz (374) am 11.10.1941 als Oberstleutnant und Kommandeur des Schützen-Regiment 4 / 6.Panzer-DIvision / XXXXI.(mot.)Armee-Korps / Panzergruppe 4 / Heeresgruppe Nord

476.Eichenlaub am 14.05.1944 als Generalmajor und Kommandeur der 6.Panzer-Division / Korpsgruppe Breith / 1.Panzer-Armee / Heeresgruppe Nordukraine

EK II 16.10.1915
EK I 27.04.1924 [i.e.- over 5 years after the end of the Great War]
EK II (Spange) 24.09.1939
EK I (Spange) 12.10.1939

[31.01.1942: Vorschlag zur Verleihung des Deutschen Kreuzes in Gold abgelehnt]

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Post by lohengrin » 31 Dec 2002, 16:18

Great help and information, as always!!!

Thank you, very much....

C.

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Post by satellite_chris » 18 Apr 2003, 19:01

Gareth wrote
"I think the general looking at Göing is Lucht. "

I am not so sure about that.

He likes much "larger" than the attached pictures of Lucht (they almost don't look like the same person either). Let me know what you all think.

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Post by Gareth Collins » 18 Apr 2003, 20:12

typo I thought I corrected. I Meant Lutz. My apologies.

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Post by JC » 19 Apr 2003, 00:52

The man on the left, looking at Göring, looks like Eberhard von Mackensen to me.

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Post by Gareth Collins » 19 Apr 2003, 00:58

by the looks of things this is a mid-late 1930s Inspection of Panzer Manoeuvres (note of Blomberg still in office). It makesd more sense for it to be Lutz than Mackensen (who wasn't a General untill 1939). Plus the similarities are daunting.

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Post by Georges JEROME » 19 Apr 2003, 22:46

satellite_chris wrote:Gareth wrote
"I think the general looking at Göing is Lucht. "

I am not so sure about that.

He likes much "larger" than the attached pictures of Lucht (they almost don't look like the same person either). Let me know what you all think.

Chris
in another topic : this pic is credited "General HARPE" what about him?

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Post by Gareth Collins » 19 Apr 2003, 22:53

Well again by the process of elimation we can discount Harpe. He wasn't promoted general unitil 1940. And with Blomberg there this picture was clearly 1930s. Oswald Lutz, I'm stickin with that

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Post by Wilfried Abenaschon » 26 Apr 2003, 22:01

Hi!
I would agree with Gareth, especially if you are definite about the purpose of this gathering.
This picture seems to have been taken before von Blomberg got his promotion to Field Marshall (20 April 1936).
Could it be possible, btw, that Wever stands just behind Göring? Moreover, the second officer is almost certainly Alfred Keller, at the time a colonel (until the 01/04/36 which agrees with my guess concerning the date of this pic).
Willab

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