show your portraits with "Schmiß"

[karlo]

incredibly interesting....kaltenbrunner one of those?

[Larrister]

Hi

Another for this thread.

Cheers
Larry

[Zeller]

excellent!

[Robert T.]

excellent!

[SiPo]

Good thread with some great photos

[DrMemory1701]

Photo #19

Didn't we see this guy in the movie "Hellboy"? Wasn't he the one who was
pulled into the opening to the netherworld at the start of the movie?

[byterock]

funny thing I think the English word smile and Schmiß have the same origin? will have to look into that

[DrMemory1701]

Is that how the phrase "a Schmitt-eating grin" got started?

[Robert T.]

Major Koopmann

In the 1890s, an estimated 8,000 student rapier duels were fought each year at German universities, students trained daily in the practice room in their corporation houses. Though they wore protective clothes, their faces were left unprotected in the Mensur since a scar on the cheek was considered proof of “extraordinary courage and bravery” and an ability “to bear both physical and emotional pain”

If challenge, students were obliged to fence in Mensuren against other fraternities and to challenge anybody who had impugned their honor or that of their corporation. Failure to do so resulted in the exclusion from the student fraternity, as did “unmanly behaviour during the duel”.

[Robert T.]

German students after the Mensur...

[Zeller]

we almost forgot Ernst Röhm

[torstenbel]

a Wehrmacht Major

[torstenbel]

a Wehrmacht Major

and the same man again. this photo was taken while he was interned in a POW camp in December 1945

[Anil]

From Wolfgang Willrich

Staffelkapitän einer Nachtjagdstaffel

[Robert T.]

we almost forgot Ernst Röhm

I believe that Ernst Röhm’s facial scar is from a wound suffered during WW1 in Lorraine, France.

Reichpost minister Franz Seldte (Corps Teutonia-Hercynia Braunschweig) has “mensur” fencing scars.

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Robert