MvR Photo In The Great Escape...

[karrart]

Originally Posted by crankcase

Along the same lines, does anyone remember the photos adorning Col. Klink's office in "Hogan's Heroes" ? I think there are some WW1 motifs there as well ?
marc

That sort of rings a bell in my head too. Maybe a Fokker D.VII photo on the wall- something like that.
Robert Karr

find the blimp:
RK’s Pfalzhood - Pfalz, Halberstadt, Nieuport, CAMEL!!!

[bristol scout]

Originally Posted by karrart

That sort of rings a bell in my head too. Maybe a Fokker D.VII photo on the wall- something like that.
Robert Karr

find the blimp:
RK’s Pfalzhood - Pfalz, Halberstadt, Nieuport, CAMEL!!!

Is that not in the 'flight office' shack at the end of the Blue Max---or was it an Albatros and I'm full of s...!!

Not watched it for a couple of years now---must dig it out and watch it again.

Dave.

[Barrett]

For no earthly reason I remember werner klemperer (as klink) exclaiming how he missed soaring in the heavens in his heinkel. Whether it was a 51 or 111 or something else was never explained.

[redintheskies]

i don't remember, but he was also talking about the "blue baron", lol and i think he did have some aeroplane pictures in his office. don't remember what they are though.

and about that picture...no idea who was in it. i thought the person on the far left was anthony focker for 2 seconds, but it CAN'T be. wow.

[ludwig113]

i've had a little dig around and came up with this...

Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner genannt von Wildau of 1st Guard Regiment of Foot was born in 1880. He was not a flyer (movies never get things right!), but a STAFF officer, retiring after WW1 as a Major and Adjutant of the Guard Reserve Corps.

He turns up on WW1 award rolls for the

Saxe Ernestine House Order-Knight 1st Class with Swords 1 May 1918 as Hauptmann and 1st Adjutant of the Government of Riga and the Mouth of the D?na, and

Principality of Hohenzollern Honor Cross 3b with Swords 5 February 1915 while still in 1. GRzF

He received a Prussian Crown Order 4th Class with Swords for the brutal fighting in the German East Africa campaign of 1905-07 (Colonial Medal with that bar).
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Friedrich-Wilhelm Franz Max Erdmann Gustav v. Lindeiner gen. v. Wildau was born at Glatz on 12 December 1880. He entered the 3. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? as a Seconde-Lieutenant on graduation from the Corps of Cadets on 15 March 1898. On the 1st of May 1902 he left the Prussian Army and the following day entered the Schutztruppe for German East Africa. He served as the Adjutant of the Governor of German East Africa from 20 June to 13 September 1905 and as the Headquarters Adjutant of the Schutztruppe for German East Africa from 7 September to 11 October 1906. He left Schutztruppe service on on 31 July 1908 and re-entered the Prussian Army on 1 August 1908 with a simultaneous promotion to Oberleutnant and was assigned to the 4. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? (Patent of 19.5.07). On 20 July 1912 on promotion to Hauptmann he was assigned as the commander of 11./1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu?. On 10 August 1914 he was assigned as the Commander of the Infanterie-Stabswache at the General Headquarters of the Kaiser in the Field. On 19 September he returned to his regiment as commander of 11./1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? where he was wounded at Ypres on 17 November 1914. Returning to duty on 13 April he assumed command of 5./1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? and then II./1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? on 27 May 1915. He was again wounded during the pursuit between the River Bug and Jasiolda on 29 August 1915. Once again returning to duty he took over F./1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu? and was yet again severely wounded on 5 December 1915 in positional fighting around Roye-Noyon (Fresnieres).

On 24 September 1916 he was assigned to Etappen-Inspektion 5 (Lines of Communication Inspectorate) and on 4 October 1916 assigned as the personal Adjutant of Prince Joachim of Prussia. Following his return to his Regiment on 30 October 1917 he became the Adjutant to the Governor of Riga-D?nam?nde. Appointed as Adjutant to the Garde-Reserve-Korps on 23 April 1918 he was promoted to Major on 15 July 1918. His final wartime appointment was as Adjutant of the 4th Army which he assumed on 8 November 1918.

Following the Armistice he was leader of the collecting point in Potsdam of the Volunteer Border Protection Unit East and Upper East from 18 January 1919. He retired on 20 September 1919 with permission to wear the uniform of the 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fu?.

its all other peoples work but it might be of interest.

paul