Objects from Russia

Brass-Bell with Russian characters

Base width 4,845 cms. Height 5,195 cms

The exact origin of the item has not yet been clarified. It may be a gift from Rosemarie Zanger´s father Guenther Klinge, which he sent home from Russia, where he was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht between 1939 and 1943. 

The bell also could be attributed as personal object to her Grandfather Carl Wilhelm Weil who was born as son of Russian Jewish emigrants 20. February 1870 in Mainz. 

The base of the bell is decorated with Russian characters, probably

заводъ ф ведева спурехъ ниж гуъ

The exact translation or meaning has not yet been deciphered.

Moscow, The Kremlin near Moskvaretzky Bridge

Hand-coloured Photography on Cardboard 18.5 x 24.5 cms

with description in russian and french 

The photography belonged probably to Rosemarie Zanger´s mother-in-law Gertrud Zanger Schmidt and dates in the time of their stay in Moscow around 1908

Portrait Photography of Gertrud Kornelia Zanger Schmidt

from P. Barbaschoff Photographic Atelier in Moscow 1908

10.5 x 16.3 cms

with a personal dedication to "my dear aunt ... in memory of ... Christmas 1908"

Wooden Sculpture "Tree"

Height 53.5 cms

Unknown prodedence, probably from Russia and a personal object of Carl Wilhelm Weil, used in later years by his daughter Maria Klinge-Weil as support for decoration objects. It symbolizes probably an arborvitae (Thuja species).

Dried flowers from Russian Ucrainia Province 1942

Collected by Günther Klinge and stored in his LANDE MOKRI SUPERB Cigarrette Carton Box with a personal dedication to his wife or daughter from 17th April 1942

Ucrainia Photography Collection

The photography collection is preserved inside a metal Hannover Bahlsen Bisquit box and includes paper print photographies and 4.2 x 5.4 cms negatives, some stored inside an envelope from Th. Reusch Photoshop in Usingen.

The photographies date mostly in 1941. Some carry on their back date entries and notes some in the personal handwriting of Günther Klinge.

During the years 1940 until 1942 Günther Klinge moved away from his home in Emmershausen, leaving his daughter Rosmarie and his wife Maria, to start a stepwise eastward voyage in exclusively male company towards the Dnieper Lowlands south of City of Charkow in Ucrainia. The exact return date of the photographies to his home is unknown.

29.6.1941 Zariwgrad ?

Untiteled

3.7.1941 Radzienkow

Ucrainia Travel Diary

1942 Travel Diary of Günther Klinge´s Voyage to Dnieper Lowlands 

Last Entry from 3.7.1942

Wooden Religious Statuette

belonging to Rosemarie Zanger´s personal objects

Unknwon Procedence, probably from Russia

First World War war time money

Coin with front designed as Russian Kopeck with Prussian Iron Cross margin

and embossed year 1916

rear with german oak leaf cluster and german letters

"Area of the Supreme Commander East"

From unknown procedence

Wooden Bottle

Wheel-shaped wooden bottle for storing alcoholic beverages

Exact Procedence Unknown

Belonged or to Carl Wilhelm Weil 
or was brought by Günther Klinge for Christmas 1940 or 1941
from german WWII Military campaign in Russia to Emmershausen

Actually this object is missing in the CID Institute Family Museum Collection