My Waffenrock collection

[Todd Gylsen]

An Infantry Officer visor. This one was definitely been worn a lot. The exterior is in nice shape with no mothing.

[Todd Gylsen]

A Kriegsmarine cap. I don't have a lot of KM stuff, since the price was right on this one, I couldn't pass it up.

[Todd Gylsen]

Here is the first of the pith helmets.

[Todd Gylsen]

And here is the other one.

[AnttiP]

Amazing colletion!!!

Antti

[Todd Gylsen]

Here is an RAD cap.

[Todd Gylsen]

My Shako.

[Todd Gylsen]

The Stahlhelm.

[Todd Gylsen]

And a Veteran's visor. This is it for the headgear collection. It's not that huge but is a good start.

[Alexander Zöller]

Stunning collection and superb photos, thanks for sharing!

[mads]

Yes, what he said!

[Dave Kane]

Storage HINT!!

Lovely collection!! However, turn the hangers 'backwards' and you won't cause the collars to fold in on themselves.
John

[Drew Wright]

Todd:

Very nice collection of uniforms! I love parade tunics even though most seem to look at them like red-headed step-children... Are you trying to collect all of the branch of service colors? If so, I'll keep a lookout for you. I nearly bought a killer Gen Staff parade tunic about a year ago... I'm still kicking myself for letting that one go.

BTW, has anyone ever seen a waffenrock piped in copper brown for motorcycle recon? If anyone has a pic, I'd love to see it.

Regards,

Drew

[Volkbert]

Wow, good collection of waffenrocks! I am still looking for my first waffenrock for an officer of the infantry.

[Rick Research]

I believe the only LOGICAL thing to do is to sign marriage contracts for potential offspring with those Suter guys to keep alllll this stuff together.

Aha, finally Names In Tunics:

Major 111 says "Oberlt Metzger." I can't match that 1936 rank and name to any of the multiple infantry officers with that name in correct ranks range in 1944, alas.

Generalmajor Abberger (that one probably beats out the Nebelwerfer tunic as my favorite. Just.) He's in the Generals biographies already out from Podzun. I don't have the army ones, but his entire life and face should be in Band 1. All he had from WW1 were the two Iron Crosses and a 1918 Black Wound Badge.

Generalintendant Walt(h)er Reich:

born 9 March 1877, entered military administrative service 1902. He was also a reserve officer in Infantry Regiment 156, finally as Hauptmann der Reserve aD.

Because he was in the Intendantur branch, there is more "knowable" on him than other sorts of Beamten:

In Imperial Rank Lists, Beamten below the level of "major" were normally not listed, nor their grade dates given, but

1912: he was still only an Intendantur-Assessor (= "captain") but since he was "acting as" before promotion, was listed as Division Intendant of the 7th Division, IVth Army Corps

1913-- same, only promoted (see below)

1914 3rd of 4th Intendants of the VIIth Army Corps

In WW1 he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross, both Classes of the Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross (so there's his two correct pinback awards), Hamburg Hanseatic Cross, Bremen Hanseatic Cross, and Mecklenburg-Schwerin Friedrich Franz Cross 2nd Class. (You can find what all of these look like by typing in key words in "Search" box in the Imperial Forum ) As of May 1914 he did not yet have a Prussian Reserve Landwehr Medal, but given his seniority (then the senior Leutnant dR in IR 156, ahead of a man with the "LD2"), he possibly got that in June 1914. He doesn't list one, nor a Prussian XXV Years Service Cross in the 1929 Intendantur Ehren Rangliste, not that it is always reliable. (An Imperial "XXV" was do-able since WW1 counted double as 10 years, with his One Year Volunteer time, whenever that was. He might also have had the 1897 Centenary medal if, as normal, he did that duty 1896-97 when he was 19-20.)

In WW1 from the start of the war to the end of 1916 he was Divisional Intendant of the 9th Cavalry Division. From then until the end of the war he was acting Oberintendanturrat of the stellv. Generalkommando (i.e. home cadre in Germany) of the IXth Army Corps. In 1929 he was a Ministerialrat (civil service colonel) in the Reichs Ministry for the Occupied Areas.

Some exact rank dates:

Intendanturrat 4.10.12 F (= "major")

Gruppenintendant ("Pay Group 'B7' " = Generalmajor ) 1 December 1937

Generalintendant 1 October 1939 #3

Generalstabsintendant 1.1.45 #1

He was carried away ("verschleppt") by the Soviets in Berlin, 1945, as Chief of Administration of Wehrkreis III and reported dead in Soviet captivity in 1947.