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who are these generals?

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Post by _The_General_ » 17 Aug 2003, 12:45

does anyone know who this generals can be??

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Post by laurens » 17 Aug 2003, 13:03

General on the right looks like W. von Blomberg

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Post by laurens » 17 Aug 2003, 13:04

Not sure on both btw but the second looks like Hoth

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Post by _The_General_ » 17 Aug 2003, 13:07

laurens wrote:General on the right looks like W. von Blomberg

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Could be, he looks like the blomberg on http://home.wxs.nl/~j.n.houterman/bio/g ... erman.html

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Not Blomberg

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Post by Glenn2438 » 17 Aug 2003, 13:38

I am afraid it cannot possibly be von Blomberg. This is a wartime photo as shown by the WW2 clasp to the WW1 Iron Cross 1st Class. Blomberg was retired in 1938 as a Generalfeldmarschall and was additionally an holder of the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite. This officer has the two rank stars of a General der...

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Post by laurens » 17 Aug 2003, 14:44

Hello Glenn,
this sounds very reasonable, so I think you're right about this.
Any thoughts who it is, and maybe the second one.

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Post by _The_General_ » 17 Aug 2003, 19:00

does anyone have a thought?

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Post by J.N. Houterman » 18 Aug 2003, 10:03

No positive identification so far. Certainly not Von Blomberg & Hoth as suggested. The setting seems me to be a (staff) course of some kind. On a "Divisionsführerlehrgang" you might expect some more Knight's Cross winners present.

The general on the left looks a bit like Gen.Maj. Hellmut Hiepe, though my photograph shows him with darker hair. Couldn't find any positive matches with "my" generals so far. Sorry.

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Post by _The_General_ » 18 Aug 2003, 14:05

J.N. Houterman wrote:No positive identification so far. Certainly not Von Blomberg & Hoth as suggested. The setting seems me to be a (staff) course of some kind. On a "Divisionsführerlehrgang" you might expect some more Knight's Cross winners present.

The general on the left looks a bit like Gen.Maj. Hellmut Hiepe, though my photograph shows him with darker hair. Couldn't find any positive matches with "my" generals so far. Sorry.

Cheers,

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thanks for your time hans,

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Post by _The_General_ » 18 Aug 2003, 22:36

could the general on the right be eberding, knut?

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Post by Dunkirchen1940 » 18 Aug 2003, 23:12

The guy on the left also looks like Hellmut Hiepe to me.
I was thinking, the photo on http://home.wxs.nl/~j.n.houterman/bio/g ... rH2.htm#Hi
might be Reichswehr era, so he might have aged a bit.

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Post by Dunkirchen1940 » 18 Aug 2003, 23:44

The General on the right may be Eberhard Kinzel.

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Post by J.N. Houterman » 19 Aug 2003, 00:26

Regarding Hiepe: was promoted tot Gen.Maj. in Febr 1942, and the pic shows him as general, so not much time for aging.

A second contestant for the general on the left: Hans Gollnick. The pic should have been taken then between June 1941 and Nov 1942.

The general on the right cannot be Eberhard Kinzel. As we can see it's a full general and that rank was reached by Kinzel only at the very end of the war, when he already had the Knight's Cross.

We're looking for:
- a General (der Infanterie, der Artillerie etc.)
- only visible awards are Iron Cross & Bar and some kind of Spange (sorry, but I'm no expert...)

Just came across a picture of Gen.d.Inf. Kurt Brennecke. Has its resemblances, or what? [Don't mind the German Cross he's wearing; that's a whole other story...]

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Post by _The_General_ » 19 Aug 2003, 00:32

has Brennecke got a scar over his eye?? i can't see a scar on my pic?

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Post by J.N. Houterman » 19 Aug 2003, 00:39

It's NO scar, just a bad picture. No scar to be seen on other portraits of him.

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