unknown KC officer

[StuGIII]

Hi,

I recently acquired this officers photo. Could someone identify him for me? Also, what grade of close combat badge is he wearing?

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Excellent picture!

[Chris D.]

Great image! I love the modified EMs felfbluse! Cannot comment on who it is but IMO the CCC looks bronze.

[George Lengyel]

Hi,

Josef Rhein is visible on the picture.

George

[StuGIII]

KC Identity

Great image! I love the modified EMs felfbluse! Cannot comment on who it is but IMO the CCC looks bronze.

Hi Chris,

Thanks, I think it's a great image too. I thought the CCC was the Bronze grade too.

Hi George,

I don't see the name Josef Rhein on the image. Where do you see a name?

[kaiserwilhelm2]

Hi Chris,

Thanks, I think it's a great image too. I thought the CCC was the Bronze grade too.

Hi George,

I don't see the name Josef Rhein on the image. Where do you see a name?

There is no name on the picture. The other message just let you know that the person visible in the picture is none other than Josef Rhein.

[StuGIII]

Josef Rhein

There is no name on the picture. The other message just let you know that the person visible in the picture is none other than Josef Rhein.

Hi thanks for clearing that up. I didn't understand what the other forum member meant. Do you know anything about Josef Rhein?

[dennisb]

Hi thanks for clearing that up. I didn't understand what the other forum member meant. Do you know anything about Josef Rhein?

Here is another photo of him which states that he was part of Grenadier-Regiment 530:

http://www.militaria321.com/auktion/...Gro%C3%9F-Foto

[Ian Jewison]

Does this look like him?

Hauptmann Joseph Rhein: I/Grenadier-Regiment 530, 299 Infanterie Division

21.04.1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
17.02.1944 Ehrenblattspange
23.02.1944 Ritterkreuz

/Ian

[StuGIII]

Josef Rhein

Does this look like him?

Hauptmann Joseph Rhein: I/Grenadier-Regiment 530, 299 Infanterie Division

21.04.1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold
17.02.1944 Ehrenblattspange
23.02.1944 Ritterkreuz

/Ian

Yes that looks like him. Thanks for giving the dates of some of his other awards and for telling me his division. I found out his birth and death dates, as well as what happened to him after the war. He made it to Oberst in the Bundeswehr, by the time he retired in 1975. He died in 2005.