You are bidding on a beautiful one Uniform photo from 1909 out of Ulm.
Group of twelve soldiers in uniform, some with a beer mug, some with playing cards in their hands.
Regiment:Grenadier Regiment No. 120, 5. Company, 4th Corporal staff.
On the right in the foreground is a hand-painted sign: "In memory of our training // 4. Corporal Society // V. Company // Grenad. Regiment 120 // 1908-1910.
Photographer:Albert Pfeiffer, Ulm, di Albert Heinrich Pfeiffer (1876-1953), the father of the photographer, portraitist and painter Albert Wilhelm Pfeiffer (1901-1987) and the painter Pan Pfeiffer (1902-1973). He opened his studio in Ulm at König-Wilhelm-Straße 1 in 1905.
Inscribed on the reverse by the leader of the Corporal Association (Wilhelm Koch) as a postcard; addressed to his brother, the bank official Ulrich Koch in Essen.
Dated Ulm, 22nd March 1909.
Transcription: "L. Ulrich! I am sending you a recording with my corporal, which I took from October to January. trained. Didn't you receive my card? How are you always? Greetings to you. Your brother Wilhelm."
Format: 8.8 x 13.8 cm.
On strong photo paper.
Condition:Photo slightly bent; Text page a bit stained. bPlease also note this Pictures!
Internal note: Krst 23-11-12 in folder Orange Military Militaria
About the photographer (source: wikipedia):
Albert Heinrich Pfeiffer (*2. April 1876 in Tübingen; † 25. November 1953 in Ulm) was a German photographer and portraitist. He is the father of the Ulm artists Albert Wilhelm Pfeiffer and Eberhard Adolf “Pan” Pfeiffer.
Life
Years of apprenticeship and travel
1890–1893 Atelier Christian Bartl, photography apprenticeship in Tübingen
1893 photo studio Paul Kallenbach retoucher Bad Kissingen
1893–1894 Photo studio Gustav Kneisel Retoucheur Aue/Erzgebirge
1894–1895 Atelier Kreutl Nachf., owner A. Hofmann Photographer Würzburg
1895 Photoatelier WackerPhotographer Würzburg
1896 Photo studio A. Eberwein photographer Neu-Ulm
Family
After his years of traveling, Pfeiffer moved back to his hometown of Tübingen. There he married Wilhelmine Karoline Walker, the daughter of the senior pedell at the University of Tübingen, Wilhelm Walker.
Albert Heinrich Pfeiffer and Wilhelmine Karoline had four children: Albert Wilhelm, Eberhard Adolf “Pan”, Charlotte and Hellmut (Hellmut died at the age of 7).
In 1905 the family moved from Tübingen to Ulm/Donau, where Pfeiffer bought a house at König-Wilhelm-Straße 1 and opened a photo studio. At that time, Ulm was a garrison town, which gave the Pfeiffer family good income opportunities through garrison, company and portrait photography.
War years 1914–1918:The war years of the First World War from 1914 to 1918 resulted in Pfeiffer being called up and his photo studio had to be temporarily closed. He did his military service with the Landsturm in Ulm, but was later transferred to the 8th. Company of the Grenadier Regiment “King Karl” (12. Infantry Regiment) relocated to France.
Reopening: After the end of the war and Pfeiffer's return in 1918, he reopened the photo studio at König-Wilhelm-Straße 1 in Ulm.
The order situation was worse after the war, so Pfeiffer decided to improve his business by moving to a more central location. The residential and commercial building on König-Wilhelm-Str. He sold 1 to a businessman from Ulm. However, the hyperinflation of the years after the First World War quickly consumed the sales proceeds from the house.
The family then moved into a rented house at Marktplatz 17, opposite the Ulm town hall, and he reopened the Foto-Pfeiffer studio at the new address. The photography business consisted of a photo studio, laboratory and a shop for photography work and cameras.
Pfeiffer had health problems as a result of the war effort, so that since then he has suffered from asthma, which severely limited his ability.
On the 29th. In December 1939, Pfeiffer sold his photography business to his son Albert Wilhelm for 15,000 Reichsmarks and a life annuity of 250 Reichsmarks per month. A proud sum for the time, which corresponded to around 8 years' wages for a skilled worker.
In 1941 his son Albert Wilhelm was drafted into military service and he in turn had to close the photo studio due to the war.
During the air raids on Ulm on 17. In December 1944, Allied bomber units attacked Ulm and also destroyed the house at Marktplatz 17 with its photo studio. The Pfeiffer family survived the attack in a nearby air raid shelter, but became homeless and destitute as a result.
Pfeiffer and his wife Wilhelmine moved to the countryside to Gerhausen near Blaubeuren, while Albert Wilhelm Pfeiffer's family moved to Langenau.
Return to Ulm: After the war, Pfeiffer and his wife moved back to Ulm to Herdbruckerstrasse 28 on the city wall on the Danube side. The couple lived in this apartment until Pfeiffer's death in November 1953.
His widow Wilhelmine Karoline Pfeiffer lived in the apartment for several years and then moved to the nearby retirement home at Dreifaltigkeitshof, where she moved on January 1st. Died in December 1972 at the age of 98.