96 - Portrait of an infantryman of Infantry Regiment No. 170 with spiked helmet, First World War

Portrait of an infantryman of Infantry Regiment No. 170 with spiked helmet, First World War Colour lithograph/paper, mounted on cardboard, inscribed in the stone lower right "Zenner" and "Ötzsch b/ Leipzig", standing German infantryman in field-grey field uniform with red-piped tunic and shoulder straps, spiked helmet (Pickelhaube) with cloth cover and red regimental number "170", knapsack, belt with ammunition pouch, holding the rifle with both hands in front of his body, the moustached soldier facing the viewer, in front of a park-like landscape with rows of trees and a light horizon, age-appropriate condition, lower margin water-stained, image 69.5x49 cm (HxW), behind glass, framed, frame width 0.5 cm Large-format soldier portraits of this kind were produced in the German Empire as keepsakes for soldiers and their families and, like the reservist pictures, belong to the patriotic commemorative culture of the years around the First World War (1914 to 1918). The red regimental number on the helmet cover refers to the 9th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 170, raised in 1897, garrisoned in Offenburg from 1898 with its III Battalion in Donaueschingen, and part of the XIV Army Corps. During the First World War the regiment fought on the Western Front, among others in the Battle of the Marne, in Flanders, on the Somme and on the Aisne, returned to Offenburg in November 1918 and was disbanded in 1919. The place of printing, Ötzsch near Leipzig, is the village of Oetzsch south of Leipzig, which was united with Markkleeberg in 1915 and is today a district of the town of Markkleeberg.