ID Help - SS Officer Photo Dachau

[chris235]

Hello,

I would like to share this rare picture I found lately here in Germany.

I would really like to know any names of the officers shown in this picture also where exactly was this photo taken.

I have found some info online but no names.

Thanks in advance

[chris235]

No idea why the picture is flpped the wrong way!

[chris235]

[chris235]

The officer to the right of the plaque I have seen his face before - he seems to have fencing scars on his face...

[leib1]

The Officer with scars could be Erich Gatternig who later went on to serve as Abteilungsarzt AA1/LAH with Meyer.

[Geoff Walden]

This should be in the SS training area at Dachau. I can't be sure, because this building is no longer there, but it might have been taken at a building that was located here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.27...num=1&t=h&z=17 . The surrounding buildings are still there, but this building unfortunately is not. I don't know for sure if this building had an open porch like that ... might not have been the right building after all.

I didn't see any buildings with open porches like that when I was walking around there earlier this year, but several of the period SS buildings are no longer there, so we can't compare.

Geoff

[derek]

I am afraid I can't help with the names but as for location of your photo I believe it was taken outside the building to the far right of this group of hospital buildings in the Uebungslager as it had a portico with square columns.

[chris235]

Thanks everyone for the help!

Woudl be great now to find out who is who!

[derek]

I would recommend that you try posting your photo on the Axis History forum. The members there are absolutely phenomenal when it comes to identifying SS personnel.

[chris235]

Thanks I will do that!

Thanks again everyone for helping me with the location!

[Lloyd I.]

It is impossible that it is Dr. Med. Erich Gatternig (SS-No. 20 241)

In May 1939 Gatternig joined Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 139 but after the Polish campaign he started a convalescent hospital in Sellin at the isle of Rügen. In 1940 he volunteered for the Waffen-SS and in August of that year he was assigned to the newly created Aufklärungsabteilung 'LSSAH' as one of the battalion doctors under fellow Austrian SS-Obersturmführer Von Kurz (SS-No. 297 418).