Request for Identification of Generals and Admirals

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#76

Post by VJK » 14 Feb 2004, 20:26

Hi Max!

You posted whilst I was formulating my reply to croat. I have to admit that it never occurred to me that a Japanese officer would visit the Eastern front (that is my guess as to the setting of the photo), but on reflection of your input, that could explain Busch's smile and relaxed demeanour that comes out of the pic. Additionally, I think the officer on the extreme right of the pic (half a torso in view) is also Japanese.

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Post by Allen Milcic » 14 Feb 2004, 20:46

Thanks for your input, guys! I was thinking that perhaps it was a Red Army officer, and that the meeting was taking place during the invasion of Poland, while Germany and the Soviet Union were still allies...but looking at the photo now, it makes much more sense that the officer is a visiting Japanese dignitary!

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#78

Post by Elwyn W » 14 Feb 2004, 21:18

Interesting observation. Here's the "original".

Thanks for the learned input, Shawn.

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Post by USAF1986 » 14 Feb 2004, 22:18

Glad to help! Busch holds a nostalgic place in my “research history.” He was the first German general that I became interested in enough to request his Personal-Nachweis/Dienstlaufbahn from Germany way back in October 1994! Seeing a small photo of Busch in Hans Dollinger’s The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II sparked my initial question: who is this field marshal with the Pour le Mérite and why can’t I find more than a passing mention of him in the standard literature!

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Sigfrid Henrici?

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Post by Elwyn W » 23 Feb 2004, 15:14

Any chance the general/officer to the right of Brauchitsch was Sigfrid Henrici?

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Post by VJK » 23 Feb 2004, 16:00

Hi Freiherr!

I can see the resemblance, but the photo was taken after 30.9.1939, when Brauchitsch was awarded the RK but Henrici was promoted to Generalmajor on 1.6.1939. Whilst it's difficult to be 100% certain, I don't think our mystery man is wearing Generals collar tabs.

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#82

Post by FANGIO » 23 Feb 2004, 16:12

He looks like Gerhard Graf von Schwerin, but wiht glasses:
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#83

Post by Panzermahn » 23 Feb 2004, 16:20

Hi,

Is Siegfried Heinrici related to Gotthard Heinrici or is it the same person?

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Post by VJK » 23 Feb 2004, 17:42

Hi Panzermahn!

It's Sigfrid Henrici and Gotthard Heinrici. Different surnames, no relation.

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Post by Elwyn W » 26 Feb 2004, 15:51

Found this on EBAY. For a minute it looks like the same Japanese dignitary. Caption said it was in the Black Sea area. I guess the picture is of too poor a quality for the German general to be identified.

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Post by Elwyn W » 26 Feb 2004, 15:52

Found this on EBAY. For a minute it looks like the same Japanese dignitary. Caption said it was in the Black Sea area. I guess the picture is of too poor a quality for the German general to be identified.

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Post by J.N. Houterman » 26 Feb 2004, 23:16

A close-up of the general....

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Sigfrid Henrici ?

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Post by Simon Gunson » 28 Mar 2004, 16:09

Hi Freiherr from Middle Earth

Gen. Gottard Henrici was a short middle-aged man of scruffy appearance (rather like me actually) who was cousin to von Rundstedt.

He wore threadbare uniforms, with a sheepskin overcoat and WW1 leggings. Most infamous for refusing to relive Hitler and berlin in 1945 with Army Group Vistula.

Your pic could not be Gottard Henricci if this helps to exclude him.

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Post by FANGIO » 28 Mar 2004, 18:41

Here's a pic of Sigfrid Henrici, doesn't look like the man with Brauchitsch:
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Post by FANGIO » 28 Mar 2004, 18:46

Now, just a minute. On a second thought, isn't he Sigfrid Henrici (with Brauchitsch)???

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