found this in my old family records, from my great great great grandfather's wedding day

found this in my old family records, from my great great great grandfather's wedding day

any idea what uniform this is? it's prussian, but I don't really know any detail past that

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Limo driver.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Must've been some crazy times to be a limo driver if they needed to carry a sword

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        its for looks, mostly. Not like the poor had chauffeuers

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ask Archduke Ferdinand.

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    He do be looking prussian.

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Leibhusarenregiment after 1865. The pelt caps became a lot shorter and the skull emblem a lot smaller.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      damn, thank you. this is so cool

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Gib me the backside of the photo and a better resolution shot and you get more info

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          this is all I've got. it's dated between 1870 and 1890 and was taken in Philadelphia AFAIK

          believe this man fought at the battle of sedan, but that might have been his son. timeline on that isn't very clear

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            The photographer/ his studio will be named on the backside of the pic.
            At least with German photographers that is

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              unfortunately I don't have the physical copy

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm redacting the Leibhusar and tend towards a Kurhessian Husar

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I thought it looked vaguely familiar...

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >girls in deaths head hussar uniforms
        For the love of god this fricking place already got me horny for fricking jet aircraft, have some mercy.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        this is all I've got. it's dated between 1870 and 1890 and was taken in Philadelphia AFAIK

        believe this man fought at the battle of sedan, but that might have been his son. timeline on that isn't very clear

        https://i.imgur.com/xt5CDaK.jpg

        >girls in deaths head hussar uniforms
        For the love of god this fricking place already got me horny for fricking jet aircraft, have some mercy.

        Check her lineage. Hint: her granddaughter ist still a princess and turned legal 3 months ago...
        Although the lady was a huge Nazi supporter. Frick them.
        My great-grandfather bred horses " Trakhehner" for the Hussars and other Prussian cavalry units near Königsberg.

        Thanks to our ancestors hubris and communism theres nothing left of huge Gestüt except some overgrown ruins in the middle of frick.
        Land der dunklen Wälder...

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh, classic Camp Commandant uniform.

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    bunp

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