Lot 8837

Description

Privately purchased item, elegant fabric in the finest quality befitting an officer, dark green collar, red coat cuffs for generals, sewn-in shoulder boards for a Generalleutnant, the Gebirgsjäger edelweiss for officers on the right sleeve, hand-embroidered in metal thread, complete with all gilt buttons. Lined in green silk with a side vent for the wearer's dagger or sabre. The tailor's label for Kuhn & Nuppau of Munich in the inside pocket, along with the wearer's handwritten name "Hauptm. von Stettner - 31.8.34 - No. 555". Overall in good condition. Generalleutnant Stettner wore the overcoat from 1934 until his death in 1944. The insignia were re-stitched after 1945. Includes the book "Generalleutnant Walter Stettner Ritter von Grabenhofen - Vom Alpenkorpskämpfer des Ersten Weltkrieges zum Ritterkreuzträger im Zweiten Weltkrieg" by Roland Kaltenegger. Generalleutnant Walter Stettner served in both World Wars and was awarded the German Cross in Gold on 2 January 1942 and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 23 April 1943. With Gebirgsjäger Regiment 136, Stettner first took part in the campaign against Poland and later in the occupation of Norway. In March 1943, he succeeded Generalleutnant Hubert Lanz as commander of the 1st Gebirgs Division. In mid-1943, the division was deployed in the fight against partisans. From January 1944, Stettner's division was again deployed for anti-partisan warfare in Bosnia and Croatia. He had just been promoted to Generalleutnant (Nov. 1943). On 19 October 1944, the 1st Gebirgs Division was surrounded in the pocket south of Belgrade. 5,000 Gebirgsjäger remained behind, including Walter Stettner. He has been missing on Mount Avala near Belgrade since 18 October 1944.

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