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I guess it kinda means "here he is, doing what he loved , remember him this way"..perhaps???
Fine lump of an animal though, eh???
cool old pic
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Dennis,
an elegy for a husband and father/uncle, written by someone who was not very good at writing and spelling, probably a farm labourer.
ambiguous in places , but this is what I make of it:
Das ist Dein Onkel unser lieber Vater mit sein(em) Jagdherrn Schmidtker.
Da hat er den letzten Hirsch erlegt im Jahre 1915.
Da kannst Du ihn Dir noch ein bisschen vorstellen, jetzt ist er ganz zusammengebrochen.
Was Gram um mich und den Liebsten (der ewig ruft)!
Wie oft ist er doch gekommen wie ich so schwerkrank lag, dass ich nicht sterben sollte, dann hat er doch keinen mehr.
This is your uncle, our good father together with the hunt-master Schmidtker as he shot his last stag in the year 1915
Here you can still recognize him; now he is taken by his illness and completely collapsed.
What grief for me and the dearest.... (who eternally calls...) !
How often did he come when I was gravely ill in bed; pleading I should not die: if you go then I have no one left.....
regards
Günter
NRA Life 1974 Ja, danke Gunter-! How interesting that this occured in 1915, when Germany was embroiled in the early stages of WW1, thrust into that later to be war of four years of attrition and brutal trench warfare, following the death of the archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914-- so many young men lost on all sides, no winners, and I too wondered if maybe some of the traditions of St. Hubertus were by-passed during the war years in Germany, as common Volk sought to survive and feed their families. Clearly the phrasing, penmanship and structure in this piece of European and World history, 98 years later now discovered, is not reflective of that of a Graff or a Ritter or a Von prefix to the family surname- but very telling, at least to those of us who are amateur students of World and European History.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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RWTF,
I agree - a totally unneccessary slaughter of a whole generation.
For anyone who is interested in the background and the real, fairly twisted and complicated, 'reasons' of WWI
I recommend Barbara Tuchmann 'The Guns of August' and 'The Proud Tower'
I had the same thought - there could not have been too much hunting going on in Germany in 1915 - perhaps it was very early in 1915, before the fighting really got bogged down in the middle of that year.
Regards
Günter
NRA Life 1974
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RWTF,
I agree - a totally unneccessary slaughter of a whole generation.
For anyone who is interested in the background and the real, fairly twisted and complicated, 'reasons' of WWI
I recommend Barbara Tuchmann 'The Guns of August' and 'The Proud Tower'
I had the same thought - there could not have been too much hunting going on in Germany in 1915 - perhaps it was very early in 1915, before the fighting really got bogged down in the middle of that year.
Regards
Günter
NRA Life 1974 Danke, meine Fruend. I have read Barbra Tuchman's novel- The Guns of August- have not read the Dark Tower- have you also read Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet On The Western Front" and his second WW1 based novel- "Three Comrades"? It is said that wars are fought for political and economic gains, and the PTB (Powers That Be) do not have the first-hand experience of close death, mud, disease, lack of food, shelter, basic hygiene- that the enlisted men who end up fighting and dying for their Country do-- what puzzles me, and Ms. Tuchman touches upon this a bit in "Guns Of August" is the relationship between the Kaiser and England- he was a nephew to Queen Victoria--some things we shall never fathom in our entire lifetime I suppose-Der Fuchs
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I suspect there would have been a good amount of hunting going on in 1915.While hunting is sport, it was also an important food source, not just for the hunters, but the general population as well.Once the "shooting plans" were set, the owners of the hunting areas were required to substantialy meet the plans requirements.Failure to do so would result in the State sending someone else in to do so, and charge the owner for the time required.Failure to meet the plan may result in sickness/hunger for the whole herd, and damage to the forest and crops in the area.
Mike
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