"Teddy" Wisch - Commander LSSAH

[PANZERPIONIERE]

Excellent collection, I truly enjoy theme collections, and that Peiper document is excellent. I specialize in 16.Pz.Div, and a emphasis on the 16.Pz.Pi.Btl.
Thanks again!
Steve

[Mooyman]

GREAT items!!!!

Best regards,

Ricardo.

[milo1881]

wow, camarada... sencillamente impresionante. . buen trabajo....
mi colleccion es un poco mas diversa... y menos costosa...jajajaja!
pronto la compartire con ustedes.
muchas gracias por mostrar tus piezas... y ojala algun dia puedan ser publicadas. seria un gran aporte de vuestra parte.
un saludo.
robert tirado/

Ever since the beginning of my collection five years ago I focussed very much on one theme:
Documents of the 1st SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" and it's 2nd Divisional Commader Theodor "Teddy" Wisch.

Wisch was born in a village near my hometown of Heide in the northern state of Schleswig Holstein. Unfortuantely I never had the opportunity to meet him in person since when he passed away in 1995 I was still going to school and I had not yet started to be interested very much in the military history of Germany.

During the last 5 years I was fortunate enough to meet and talk to many LAH veterans telling me about "Teddy" including Otto Kumm, Teddy's half-brother Waldemar H. ( ex T-Div. and LAH ) and Ernst Barkmann from "DR" who knows him from the post-war years.

Hearing all the stories about him and his character I realized that "yes", we do come from the same rough climate countryside of Northern Germany and I made it my task to reconstruct his military carrer in the form of his personal and other LAH documents and photos.

Many times during the last years did I want to break out, start collecting medals, badges, etc., but at the end my will to re-group all the lost Wisch documents was stronger and I kept going, leaving out many great and optically more attractive items.

I know my collection is small, but I dedicated all my time and hobby-budget into putting a piece of LAH history back together again.

I wish very much that some day my material or my limited knowledge could contribute to a book about Teddy Wisch or the proud division he led until the summer of 1944 when he was nearly killed by U.S. naval artillery on the invasion front.

At this point I want to thank my friend John M. Donovan very much for contacting me when wanting to part from some of his Wisch documents. They are now part of my grouping and I wish to appeal to everyone outthere wanting to part from some of their Wisch / LAH docs and photos to contact me.

[Spanish Freiwillige]

A truly great collection of documents and of this interesting person. Congratulations

[markus]

Thanks

Thanks again guys. I haven't grown tired of this group yet and yes, I have been able to add on a couple of photos incl. private snapshots. Let me try to post them within the next weeks.

Thanks also for the tip on the Wisch-tunic!

Saludos,
Markus


p.s. Especially interested in smallsized snapshots of Wisch and all LAH in general

[Mike's]

One of the best threads I have seen in a long time!!!

[Mark C. Yerger]

Nice to see it all together, a great regimental and divisional commander.

Mark

[markus]

Wisch/ LAH: New additions

Patience, patience...this is the tip I can give in collecting.

Between when I started the thread and now I was able to still add on a couple of items such as a promo doc for Wisch to SS-Standartenfuehrer, Wisch's wound doc (black), post-war postcards to his wife from prison camp and a couple of snapshot + KB photos!

Thanks to everyone helping me in my quest! It really help with motivating me again. In the meantime I had already begun to collect space-flown items fro both Apollo (moondust!), Space Shuttle and ISS.

My main area of interest will stay the LAH though.

Many thanks again to my good friend John up there in Boston north of the river!

[Spanish Freiwillige]

Markus a truly impresive documenr7photo collection, as i had said before of grrat historical value and having it al together makes it even worth more I just wonder in a few years waht you will be presenting to us: on of the best 1st SS document collection

[Koenigstiger]

Very interesting and rare colleciton...
For an interested W-SS person like me, a wonderful thread!!!

Greez F-16

[Johan_81]

Maybe a stupid suggestion, but you might want to look at this: http://www.hero-faksimiles.de/neu/wischorg.html.

It is a signed photo (post-war)

[klinsmann]

Can anybody tell me who this man is?
I hope it is okay John

[Johan_81]

I believe that is Max W******252;nsche

[Nick_since_1985]

What is this award?

[InfanterieSammler]

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