1870 general (PlM holder) - please help with ID

[Borzadow]

Hello,

I've just got a nice CdV of a general (feldmarschall?) but I hace no idea who is he...

Can you help me please with ID?

[gregM]

Not sure but It looks like Karl Rochus Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel

[Gerdan]

To compere the photo: this is Edwin Karl Rochus Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall

http://bildbasis.de/images/large/001657.jpg

http://www.google.de/imgres?q=rochus...art=23&ndsp=33

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_von_Manteuffel

Gerdan

[Borzadow]

I think that's him !!
Thanks guys

[saschaw]

Why are you comparing bearded faces all looking the same? I take a look at the awards and see it cannot be Manteuffel. No idea who it is - but it's not him!

Hopefully Daniel Krause takes a look here.

[Borzadow]

Hmm he has very similar nose and ears... but awards can tell everything. Someone have an idea who is the man?

[Montgomery Burns]

sure is
rewards are earlier as 1895

the ek1 is no Wagner . ( wide frame )
the ek2 also ,,,, as far as I can see ..



kronen orden ?
adler orden ?
PLM .
1866 medals ???

hmmmmm ,, not my field






regards kay

[Borzadow]

well all I can see is:

PlM - RAO 1 with X on ring - commander Eisernes Krone (KuK) - commander Zahringen Lowe - commander Militar Verdienste Kreuz (KuK) (?)

Spange: EK 2 1870 - RAO 3 with X (on a EK ribbon) - KO 3 with X (on a EK ribbon) - Peter Friedrich Ludwig order (?) - 1870-71 medal - 1866 cross - (?) - (?) - (?)

on brest: EK 1 1870 - Albrecht Bare brest star (?)

very highly decorated man. His ID must be somewhere...

[Daniel Krause]

nice pic!

ID is quite simple.
Have a look in the Prussian ranklists between 1875 to 1880 for a Divisional Commander with the plm, Red Eagles and Crown Order with swords and the quite rare star of the Anhalt the Bear Grand Commander.

Lots of greetings
Daniel

[Borzadow]

Hello Daniel,
it would be simple indeed if I had any ranklist...
If you have one may you take a look for me? I'd be very thankful!

Btw I was thinking that it might be Gustav Freiherr von Buddenbrock... He is not very simillar from face but awards mainly matches:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_...on_Buddenbrock

[Gerdan]

I have to agree with Borzadow. I think most of us do not have the chance to check the Prussian

Rank Lists 1875 - 1880. So, Daniel if you have theses rank lists please check them. It could be

helpful.

Gerdan

[Dave Danner]

I can't tell what is below the Iron Crown, but it is not a Zaehringen Lion. The commander's badge below that is the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.

I would say this is char. Gen.d.Inf. Franz von Zychlinski (1816-1900). He retired in 1880 as commander of the 15.Division in Köln am Rhein. His awards in the 1880 rank list: plM, RAO2EStXaR, RAO4X, KO3X, EK1&2, DA, AB2aX, DD2a, HP2b, ÖEK2K, RSt2, SA2b. His Red Eagle was later upgraded to 1st Class and then Grand Cross.

Based on his service, I would guess the medals on the medal bar after the DA-Kreuz are:

• 1870-71 Kriegsdenkmünze
• 1866 Königgrätz-Kreuz
• 1864 Kriegsdenkmünze
• 1849 Hohenzollern'sche Gedächtnismedaille
• 1849 Badische Gedächtnismedaille (note the Baden-style ring)

Regards,
Dave

[Borzadow]

I think that you got him !!!
THANK you Dave for your help and time !!!!!!

[Glenn2438]

Franz von Zychlinski

Dave is absolutely correct. The same portrait of General v. Zychlinski appears on page 90 of volume 8 Priesdorff's Soldatisches Führertum.

Regards
Glenn