Help query: Who is this man?

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Help query: Who is this man?

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Post by Prosper Vandenbroucke » 29 Dec 2021, 13:06

Hello everybody,
I don't know who is this person with Adolf Hitler, Reader and Hermann Göring.
I think that the pic was token on the launching of the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin ?
Maybe some of yours is able to help me ?
Many thanks and Happy New Year.
Apoliges for my poor english but it is not my native language
Kindly regards from Belgium.
Prosper :wink: :wink: :wink:
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Post by Palmesan » 29 Dec 2021, 15:30

Hi Prosper,
The person with Hitler, Raeder, and Goering isn't in uniform, and I don't recognize his cap badge as anything to do with the NSDAP or the Navy. I think he must be a senior official of Deutsche Werke in Kiel. I found a short British Pathé news clip of the launch. He is in the group on the rostrum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R0Pnr9 ... Path%C3%A9

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Post by Prosper Vandenbroucke » 29 Dec 2021, 16:30

Hello Chris,
Thank you for your quick response.
Kindly regards
Prosper :wink:

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Post by von thoma » 31 Dec 2021, 01:49

and I don't recognize his cap badge as anything to do with the NSDAP or the Navy.
Perhaps he wears a DAF visor cap.
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Post by GregSingh » 31 Dec 2021, 11:04

Could be one of these below (mentioned in press reports as being present together with AH and HG during launch ceremony):

Schiffsbaudirektor Walter Löflund
Maschinenbaudirektor Dr. Immich
Betriebsobmann Beyer

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