Outstanding Pastor Studio Portrait...

[Hundestaffel]

Just sold on German Ebay (postcard size photo)....one would be very hard pressed to equal - let alone better - this shot when it comes to Pastor photos...


"Hundestaffel"

[Simon O.]

the only one i have, in a photo album and part of a grouping.

A craking photo of the padre of the 3 Gebirgs division, together with Dietl by his HQ at Bjørnfjell outside Narvik, may 1940.

[i.spring]

hers one from my collection.
this belongs to a nice color slide collection taken by a wehrmacht priest during the war.
best wishes.
Ian

[12thPanzer]

Yes, I saw this one on Ebay too Trev. I agree, the best Priest photo I have seen yet. Probly why it sold for so much loot!

Great photos Simon and Ian! Love the cross on the cap Simon.

[Gerdan]

There is an interesting book dealing with priest in Uniform in ww2 (also with photographs):

http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...:0&tx=44&ty=72


Gerdan

[Andrew Harris]

Hm-m-m... Guys, which one of two World Wars you date this portrait? For me - it's WWI.

Greetings, Rostyslav.

[Andrew Harris]

P.S. Here is my two WWI pfarrer portraits:

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[Andrew Harris]

More details :~)

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[panzer1432]

Pastor

Great Thread, Great Pics !

Mike

[Edgar Alcidi]

Here another one

[feldpost 58]

Hi,

Very good thread!
While personally not being of a religious nature, I wonder if somewhere research could be done to give a history of Wehrmacht Kreigspfarrer during WW2?
Being a collector of mostly paperwork, I have several letters written to families of fallen soldiers; and these (Usually letterheaded) items of correspondence name several priests which may be recorded.
One in particular, which comes to my mind is Dr. Alois Beck; who wrote a Divisional history which was published in 1983.
Apparently the book has many colour photographs (Beck being the unofficial photographer of the Division) including the man himself.
I am particularly interested in this person, as I have two letters from him to the family of a fallen soldier, and photographs of the KIA persons grave taken by Beck himself.
The book is entitled "Bis Stalingrad", and I have seen it for sale on German book websites for about the 55 Euro mark.
I wait until after Christmas to buy this book as a present to myself, haha!

Best wishes.

John

[Gerdan]

John

as I told (# 5 here) there is book with the results of a research on priests in WW2 :

Title:

Hans-Jürgen Brandt, "Priester in Uniform - Seelsorger, Ordenleute und Theologen als

Soldaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg" 1995


http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...:0&tx=44&ty=72

Gerdan

[torstenbel]

Some superb photos. I especially like the one with Dietl in it. Cheers, Torsten.

[Gerdan]

# 7 picture right:

It seems that this priest was part of the "Schutztruppe" in Deutsch-Südwest Afrika.

His hat does indicate this.

Gerdan

[Andrew Harris]

# 7 picture right:

It seems that this priest was part of the "Schutztruppe" in Deutsch-Südwest Afrika.

His hat does indicate this.

Gerdan

Oh, I wish that it were like this... But it's Poland:~(