Police officer portraits show thread

[JoeW]

Wonderful additions to the collection Gerd.

[Gerd W.]

Thanks Joe



Here one more

1866 - 1870/71 vet

Landgendarmeriebrigade 6.

[Gerd W.]

Pre 1889 mounted Landgendarm, 8th Brigade Koblenz

[stonemint]

Ebay pic--I presume FSP:

[Gerd W.]

Nice picture!


Here is my new addition.


Königlicher Polizei-Inspektor

That´s Konrad Klaeber, born in 1854, Police-chief of Altona (later part of Hamburg).

He came 1891 from Berlin and was at least up to 1904 in Altona.

Klaeber was the first (known) who used fire-monitors to stop a huge crush of people (100.000+ who enjoyed a Kaiser field day -great Zapfenstreich-)

Now known as "Zapfenstreich in Altona" 1904 (some postcards were printed in remberance of that day )

In 1900 Altona had

145.000 citizen
1 Police-Inspektor
5 Police-Kommissare
7 OberpolizeiSergeanten
87 Sergeanten
9 Harbor-Policemen
31 Night-guards
66 Policemen
2 jail-Policemen
24 criminal-detektives

[Gerd W.]

Klaebers awards and his commemorative presentation saber (Altona Symbol)

[W.Unland]

Impressive. The first guy to use fire hoses, nice. I see there were more sergeants than policemen on his force, obviously not supervisors as they are in US.

Bill U

[Dave C.]

Gerd, what a great picture, congrats! The detail on that bullion work is stunning...it's difficult to stop staring at it!

[Gerd W.]

Impressive. The first guy to use fire hoses, nice. I see there were more sergeants than policemen on his force, obviously not supervisors as they are in US.

Bill U

Bill,

Oberpolizei-Sergeanten were supervisors / NCO´s (like Wachtmeister /Bezirkswachtmeister) in case of Altona.

Sergeant/Policeman/Schutzmann was a matter of time in service.



one more of the Zapfenstreich show

[Gerd W.]

Cologne is one of the centers of mardi gras here in Germany.

This very rare photo shows a Schutzmann who seems to be a "Jeck" and at least a mardi gras prince

Look at his impressive necklace

[Gerd W.]

Sorry, I was wrong in case of this officer!

No mardi gras

This officer has a so called Koenigskette (king-necklace) as winner of the Koenigs shooting around his neck. The bird is the so called kings-bird.

There are quite a number of several hundred year old Christian shooting brotherhoods (St. Sebastianus pp.) around the Cologne area which wore such style of necklace.

Example necklaces

[Gerd W.]

"normal" portrait Schutzmann city of Hannover

[Willi Z.]

New arrivals in 2014!!

1.

Gendarmeriewachtmerister Friedewald (Kassel) 1905 in great-coat

2.

Landgendarm pre 1880 Magdeburg area with his wife

All great photos Gerd! I especially like this 1866/1871 veteran with the 1870 EKII!!!

[Gerd W.]

Willi, here is another 1866/71 vet

Landgendarm 4. Brigade

[Gerd W.]

Schutzmann with Family