Albert Leo Schlageter!

[Coburg]

Here is some of my Schlageter collection

Jim

[Coburg]

Another

[Sergeant 08]

A nice addition to this thread! Thanks for showing us!

[Sergeant 08]

The memory of Schlageter did not end after the end of the Weimarer Republik in 1933. Another piece from 1935:

Schlageter Feier Schönau 26.5.1935

[Valter Gorenc]

very nice thread! Are any of these monuments still existing today?

[Sergeant 08]

Originally Posted by Valter Gorenc

very nice thread! Are any of these monuments still existing today?

Most were destroyed, but some still exist today. Please look in this thread:

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=521499&page=8

A Schlageter memorial in #120 in past and in #123 the same today.

[Sergeant 08]

10 Jähriger Todestag Albert Leo Schlageter.

[GHP]

Only an indirect connection, 16 years after his death:




I/J.G. 26
24.9.39 - 31.12/39

Jagegeschwader 26 Schlageter

--Guy Power

[CIANO]

Hi,

I want to show you this nice photo....

The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the German navy (Kriegsmarine). The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. It thus is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war.

Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States.

In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD.[1] She was towed to Rio de Janeiro, and for Brazil she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, the Portuguese Navy bought her to replace the old school ship Sagres II (which was transferred to Hamburg, where she is a museum ship under her original name Rickmer Rickmers). The Portuguese Navy renamed her Sagres (the third ship of that name), and she is still in service.

[Sergeant 08]

Originally Posted by CIANO

Hi,

I want to show you this nice photo....

The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the German navy (Kriegsmarine). The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. It thus is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war.

Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States.

In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD.[1] She was towed to Rio de Janeiro, and for Brazil she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, the Portuguese Navy bought her to replace the old school ship Sagres II (which was transferred to Hamburg, where she is a museum ship under her original name Rickmer Rickmers). The Portuguese Navy renamed her Sagres (the third ship of that name), and she is still in service.

Thanks for telling us the story!

PS: Good to see, that you still can find the Schlageter lettering there.

[CIANO]

Originally Posted by Sergeant 08

Thanks for telling us the story!

PS: Good to see, that you still can find the Schlageter lettering there.

I think that they did not realize who was this man...

If they know...

Anyway the Brasilians put another inscription above the Leo Schlageter...and when the boat was bought by the Portuguese, they prefered to have the original inscription...

cheers

[Sergeant 08]

Originally Posted by CIANO

...and when the boat was bought by the Portuguese, they prefered to have the original inscription...

cheers

Well done!

[Bob Hritz]

Here are two cuff titles in my collection.

Bob Hritz

[Coburg]

Great cuff titles Bob

Jim

[Sergeant 08]

From Freiberg in Sachsen 1933.