SS officer help!

[Eric K.]

Hello
I have a few photo's and i believe this guys name is J.Linger,Lingner or maybe Linsner Its kind of hard to interpret the signature.
Any help would be great!
post #8 you'll be able to see the sig.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=108675

Eric

[darryl-P]

Eric,

I believe your signature says "J. Lunser". I have a sutterlin script program and here is the name transposed on your photo for comparison.

Cheers,

[Donald Abenheim]

oder Bucher

or not, dear Darryl, I also see a "B" and an "h" where you see an "L" and an "s". Where does one get this nifty Sutterlin program, dear colleague? Has anyone looked in the 1938 rank list? Sapere aude.

[darryl-P]

Well, this sutterlin stuff is certainly a mystery to me. Here is "J. Bucher" (as Donald suggested) in yellow underneath my guess. Seems like it could be virtually anything.

As a point of interest, I have a name painted into the back of one my helmets in sutterlin. I'll be darned but I can't figure out what it says...at least with any degree of certainty.

At least you know this fellow is an officer so again, as Donald suggested, have a look in the 1938 DAL and see if one of these names is attributed to SS-TV "Elbe".

[Donald Abenheim]

Konfus

I looked in the big 1938 DAL, in fact, and neither works. There is a Bucher of a sort in an Allgemeine SS signals unit; and the Lunser or Luenser is in the Stammabteilung of some Allgem. SS unit. Sutterlin is a chore, but you can figure it out. The easiet and best way is to use constantly, (i.e. write yourself in it...) and then read alot, and I really mean, alot of German handwriting of the period. Merely looking at a few names does not hack it; you have to read pages of the stuff. That's what I did almost thirty years ago....

I sure wish I could own this "Elbe" uniform.... or even look at it.

[Eric K.]

Thanks alot guys, so I guess it;s a mystery....for now


Eric

[Donald Abenheim]

Thanks alot guys, so I guess it;s a mystery....for now


Eric

I am not sure when this "Elbe" cuff title went out of wear, if at all. Others know this here. The # of officers, in any case, was quite small. If you are in Germany, you have more resources than we do on this score. If you can find an officer's roster from this unit from say, 1937 or so on, which is when I would swag date this image, then you might reach your goal, somehow. These units did not have a large complement of officers, in any case.