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Thanks Joe
Here one more
1866 - 1870/71 vet
Landgendarmeriebrigade 6.Attached FilesLast edited by Gerd W.; 03-08-2014, 04:57 AM.
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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-detektivesAttached Files
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Originally posted by W.Unland View PostImpressive. 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 showLast edited by Gerd W.; 03-26-2014, 12:04 PM.
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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 necklacesLast edited by Gerd W.; 03-29-2014, 01:06 PM.
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Originally posted by Gerd W. View PostNew arrivals in 2014!!
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Gendarmeriewachtmerister Friedewald (Kassel) 1905 in great-coat
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Landgendarm pre 1880 Magdeburg area with his wifeWilli
Preußens Gloria!
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