Name?

[luckystrike78]

Can anyone read that name?

Oberstlt. Ne....l

[nichte]

It might be stretching it a bit far, but after enlarging the signature, the line through the letter "t" did not appear as one long stroke, but a short one followed by a longer one. This would result in the possibility that the first line would be an "i-dot" belonging to the third letter.
The name could be read as "Oberstltn. Neitzel" then. What do you think"
Hiltraut

[history1]

That´s what also came in my mind as I had the historian Sönke Neitzel in mind.
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/hi/soenke ... round.html
But I didn´t get any useful hits (at least for me) in the web with the wording "Oberstleutnant Neitzel".
What on the other side doesn´t mean that though an officer of this rank and name existed (Volksbund grave search was negativ).

[nichte]

What I found was
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/493 ... -Hasso.htm

Hiltraut

[GregSingh]

Oberstleutnant Walter Neitzel

[history1]

Wow, you both are digging in to me unknown sources. The only problem with Walter Neitzel is that he got promoted posthum to Oberstleutnant and we don´t know when the photo was shot nor the caption written.