Hitler's company? Question about Sterbebild/Death Card (WW1)

[RelicHunter]

I bought this a while ago for my WW1 collection and was primarily interested in it because its a set of two brothers on separate cards. However, I noticed today as I was entering the information in my collection list, that it would appear the top card, Vitus, was in the same company as Hitler. Is this correct? It's not uncommon at all to see List Regiment death cards out there, but I'm not sure how many I've seen of 1st Company (although honestly, I haven't looked that closely all the time.)

Also, can anyone give me a confirmation on the spelling of the last name? I haven't been able to find either brother on the War Graves commission search. I tried the following:

Heitz
Heiss
Heiß
Heisz
Heifz

I can't figure the spelling on the old script for sure.

[cesky67]

Hi

To me it looks like Heiß. It doesn't end in a tz - you can compare the t in Vitus and it doesn't look like it and also it isn't fz because if you look at the f in Wolfgang again it doesn't look like it. So for me it's Heiß.

[Hank C.]

Hi

To me it looks like Heiß. It doesn't end in a tz - you can compare the t in Vitus and it doesn't look like it and also it isn't fz because if you look at the f in Wolfgang again it doesn't look like it. So for me it's Heiß.

Concur.

Hank

[Gerdan]

I could not find Wolfgang Heiß and not even Vitus Heiß in the Volksbund list.


Gerdan

[Br. James]

Wikipedia contributes the following note on typographic ligatures: "Remnants of ſʒ ("sz") and tʒ ("tz") ligatures from Fraktur, a family of German blackletter typefaces, originally mandatory in Fraktur but now employed only stylistically, can be seen to this day on street signs for city squares whose name contains Platz or ends in -platz." If that is the case, then the names on the two death cards would be Vitus and Wolfgang Heisz.

Br. James

[cesky67]

Br.James could be right, but if you look at the wwi Militarpaß or at the wwi deathcards you do see the "ß" and it does look very similar to what is on Relichunter's card. Even in the WWII Soldbuch and Wehrpaß you come across words ending in "ß" and again they look similar to Relichunter's card. I did have a look at the Volksbund site for Heisz but there is not a single person of that name there, of course that does not mean that the name doesn't exist. I guess Relichunter needs to examine his other wwi cards and compare.

[Gerdan]

I can assure Br. James has the correct interpretation. It is " ß " written with types of the Fraktur (tz)

Gerdan