Wehrmacht and NSDAP Wedding Portraits, Add Yours Here.

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I notice that the W-SS Lieutenant in the photo above is wearing an Anti-Partisan Badge as well as a Close Combat Clasp.  The lower badges on the pocket seem to be a HJ Honor Badge and a Wound Badge.  

 

 

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A rather muted colorized one, Collar patches should be Yellow no, seeing he's a Pilot

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On 6/9/2022 at 4:04 AM, patches said:

A rather muted colorized one, Collar patches should be Yellow no, seeing he's a Pilot

 

My understanding is that once one qualified as a pilot in the Luftwaffe, and that qualification was maintained, that they could continue wearing their pilot's badge even if assigned to a non-flying branch of the Luftwaffe. That sometimes happened given the needs of the service and the qualifications of those involved.

 

It could be that the colorization of the collar tabs is incorrect in the above photo? No way to know how it looked in B&W before it was altered.

 

I do not have any period photos handy of pilot badge wearing Luftwaffe personnel assigned to a non-flying branch of the Luftwaffe, but I recall seeing a few (rarely) over the years and an available example is this Luftwaffe Engineer Corps (Fliegeringenieurdienst) officer's uniform that I will include below.

 

Image source:

 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WW2_Norway._Leica_camera_Nazi_Germany_Luftwaffe_uniform_Engenieer_Official_Fl._Stabsingenieur_Peaked_cap_Schirmmuetze_Luftwaffeadler_eagle-and-swastika_aiguillette_decorations_Posters_etc_Lofoten_Krigsminnemuseum_Museum_2022_IMG_7917.jpg 

 

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The Wedding of Kurt Lau sometime in 1944, his RK and other insignia has been censored.

 

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/24415/Lau-Kurt.htm

 

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Leutnant August Ségur-Cabanac an Austrian Nobleman of French extraction (Fled the Terror during the Revolution), with one of his ancestors in Hapsburg service back to the Napoleonic War. Ségur-Cabanac would ultimately be in the 116th Panzer Division , Normandy, Siegfried Line, and will be wounded badly in the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, in November 44, so bad that he spends the remainder of the war in hospital and convalescing.

 

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23 hours ago, patches said:

Leutnant August Ségur-Cabanac an Austrian Nobleman of French extraction (Fled the Terror during the Revolution), with one of his ancestors in Hapsburg service back to the Napoleonic War. Ségur-Cabanac would ultimately be in the 116th Panzer Division , Normandy, Siegfried Line, and will be wounded badly in the Battle of the Huertgen Forest, in November 44, so bad that he spends the remainder of the war in hospital and convalescing.

 

Their Coat of Arms

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Think this one is an SS Feldgendarm

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Very nice!  Photos of W-SS Feldgendarms are hard to find.  It looks like he has a bullion sleeve eagle even though he is a NCO.  

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A Paratrooper in Evening Dress with Dagger for the occasion.

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Not a wedding portrait, but a candid one of Traudl Junge and Hans Junge.

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Soldat mit Krimschild.

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Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Konrad Winkler, 14th Infantry Regiment, sometime in the 30s, later by 1942,  Hauptmann, and Kompanie Chef 6. Kompanie Infantrie Regiment 577 305. Infantrie Division.

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23 hours ago, patches said:

Oberfeldwebel Friedrich Konrad Winkler, 14th Infantry Regiment, sometime in the 30s, later by 1942,  Hauptmann, and Kompanie Chef 6. Kompanie Infantrie Regiment 577 305. Infantrie Division.

He is in fact the oft published officer in the Battle of Stalingrad, the one with the broken Infantry Assault Badge, 305th Infantry Division fights most notably the Barrikady Gun Factory, he  became an officer in the early part of the war we should think.

 

His story.

 

https://www.argunners.com/story-behind-famous-stalingrad-photograph/

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The Wedding of Erich Hartmann September 10 1944.

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The Youngest General in the Wehrmacht, one Erich Bärenfänger, as an Oberstleutnant with his wife.

 

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1938, can't make out his Cuff Title to see what unit he's in.