Very nice! I like the brand's name ('Hermann Löns'), and how the Germans named everyday products to famous writers and leaders (Bismarck etc.). This guy is really one of my favorite Germans: nationalist poet and writer, intellectual, schlagender Student, ladies' man (lived with women that were at least 20 years younger), gentleman, and last but not least one of the first war volunteers in 1914 at 48 years of age(!)... He died on the battlefield some weeks later, near Reims in the Champagne region. His body was discovered by a farmer almost 20 years later, and Hitler wanted to make a martyr out of him. The SA buried him on the Lüneburg heath, not far from the later Panzertruppenschüle at Munster, but the rivalling Reichswehr reburied him one year later near Walsrode. I accidentally stumbled upon his grave and monument when i was returning from the Panzer Museum some years ago. I actually was looking for traces of the enormous production plant of Franz Brehme in the city of Walsrode (leather equipment), when I discovered a sort of modern 'cult' around this poet (who was never -because of the anachronism- a 'nazi' or a Jew-hater). Seems that modern Germans honour him because of this ecological ideas and his timeless poems...
Sorry, just couldn't resist to teach...
P.S. WILL post my collection of personal equipment later on (lots of smoker's stuff)
Lucius
Sorry, just couldn't resist to teach...
P.S. WILL post my collection of personal equipment later on (lots of smoker's stuff)
Lucius
cooooooooool.
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