General Franz Böhme's Photo Albums
Hi Ian,
Fantastic pictures. I am sure you meant Anton Grasser, Kmdr 119 IR/25 Inf Div shaking hands with Böhme. (There must be some future RKTs and Generals in this line up!!) as Grasser was the first RKT of 25 Inf Div.
In the pic Boehme was installing a memorial for von Speck, his predesessor as Kmdr XVIII Geb Corp, the second general from left was von Löper, Kdr. 83. Div. von Löper is not easy to spot as he didn't really look much like the standard studio portrait we have. Fortunately I have a pic of him with von Stauffenberg that had exactly the same profile.
Cheers
freiherr
Fantastic pictures. I am sure you meant Anton Grasser, Kmdr 119 IR/25 Inf Div shaking hands with Böhme. (There must be some future RKTs and Generals in this line up!!) as Grasser was the first RKT of 25 Inf Div.
In the pic Boehme was installing a memorial for von Speck, his predesessor as Kmdr XVIII Geb Corp, the second general from left was von Löper, Kdr. 83. Div. von Löper is not easy to spot as he didn't really look much like the standard studio portrait we have. Fortunately I have a pic of him with von Stauffenberg that had exactly the same profile.
Cheers
freiherr
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Thanks Freiherr and Gareth. Yes You'll have to forgive me for a few typos or other errors. The titles on these pics were typed well over 20 years ago and I'm posting them without checking. I'm trying to select the ones which show as much facial and uniform detail as possible.
I'll put some more up later.
Best
Ian
I'll put some more up later.
Best
Ian
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Really GREAT photos. These don't look "propagandistic" at all which makes them far better than average "official" photos.
Another question: where do you see scars there? I can see only normal "wrinkles" in this mentioned photo.
(As confused as nearly always...)
One question: what was von Le Suire doing in Finland in 1943 (whwn the photo was dated)? He was Chief of Staff of Gebirgskorps Norwegen until 16.7.1942 but what did he do there after that? Did he possibly work in Geb.-AOK 20?Dieter Zinke wrote:Direct hit, dear Gareth! The scar is pathbreaking.Gareth Collins wrote:In the pic 'Boehme & Terboven 1.jpg' I believe that's Karl von le Suire to the left of Terboven.
BTW: right spelling "von Le Suire"
Another question: where do you see scars there? I can see only normal "wrinkles" in this mentioned photo.
(As confused as nearly always...)
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By scar I think he means 'dimple chin'.Harri wrote:Really GREAT photos. These don't look "propagandistic" at all which makes them far better than average "official" photos.
One question: what was von Le Suire doing in Finland in 1943 (whwn the photo was dated)? He was Chief of Staff of Gebirgskorps Norwegen until 16.7.1942 but what did he do there after that? Did he possibly work in Geb.-AOK 20?Dieter Zinke wrote:Direct hit, dear Gareth! The scar is pathbreaking.Gareth Collins wrote:In the pic 'Böhme & Terboven 1.jpg' I believe that's Karl von le Suire to the left of Terboven.
BTW: right spelling "von Le Suire"
Another question: where do you see scars there? I can see only normal "wrinkles" in this mentioned photo.
(As confused as nearly always...)
In regard to why he was there, Who knows? I've seen positively I.D.'d pictures of generals & admirals at times & locations they have truely no link with. One of my most confounding ones was a picture of Adm. Richard Förster with a Japanese Admiral during the war inspecting a globe. Foerster was retired in 36!
Either the date is wronh, the location was wrong, of he was simply detached for information.
Further to that, I believe the Officer to Terboven's right may be Matthias Kräutler.
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Gareth Collins wrote:By scar I think he means 'dimple chin'.Harri wrote:Really GREAT photos. These don't look "propagandistic" at all which makes them far better than average "official" photos.
One question: what was von Le Suire doing in Finland in 1943 (whwn the photo was dated)? He was Chief of Staff of Gebirgskorps Norwegen until 16.7.1942 but what did he do there after that? Did he possibly work in Geb.-AOK 20?Dieter Zinke wrote:Direct hit, dear Gareth! The scar is pathbreaking.Gareth Collins wrote:In the pic 'Boehme & Terboven 1.jpg' I believe that's Karl von le Suire to the left of Terboven.
BTW: right spelling "von Le Suire"
Another question: where do you see scars there? I can see only normal "wrinkles" in this mentioned photo.
(As confused as nearly always...)
In regard to why he was there, Who knows? I've seen positively I.D.'d pictures of generals & admirals at times & locations they have truely no link with. One of my most confounding ones was a picture of Adm. Richard Foerster with a Japanese Admiral during the war inspecting a globe. Foerster was retired in 36!
Either the date is wronh, the location was wrong, of he was simply detached for information.
Further to that, I believe the Officer to Terboven's right may be Matthias Kräutler.
A good friend of mine has a photo album which includes a series of photos of GFM List visiting North Norway and he certainly had no command function in Scandinavia.
I agree with Gareth, that certainly does look like Kräutler.
Ian
Excellent historically significant photos, thankyou very much indeed for taking the time and effort to share them. We truly appreciate it.
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List:Simon Orchard wrote:A good friend of mine has a photo album which includes a series of photos of GFM List visiting North Norway and he certainly had no command function in Scandinavia.
Ian
Anfang 02.1942 von Hitler beauftragt, die Verteidigung in Finnland und Norwegen zu inspizieren mit der Vollmacht, die ihm notwendig erscheinenden Maßnahmen bei Heer, Marine, Luftwaffe und den deutschen Zivilbehörden in Norwegen zu befehlen
authorized by Hitler to inspect the defence in Finland and Norway plenipotentiary for necessities concerning army, navy, airforce and civil government
25.03.1942 hierüber großer Vortrag vor Hitler (he instructed Hitler)
05.04.1942 Bericht darüber an OKH / GenStdH / Org.Abt. (he instructed the Organisationsabteilung)
source: "KTB des OKW", Vol. 3, pages 124 and 310
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