Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class
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Main Cast
Character
Actor
Ernst Thälmann
Günther Simon
Fiete Jansen
Hans-Peter Minetti
Arthur Vierbreiter
Erich Franz
Martha Vierbreiter
Erika Dunkelmann
Krischan Daik
Raimund Schelcher
Änne Harms
Karla Runkehl
Otto Kramer
Gerhard Bienert
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class
A sequel followed one year later, covering his last life years.
The following weapons were used in the film Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class :
Pistols Luger P08 German officers including Hauptmann (Captain) Alland (Adolf Peter Hoffmann ) and some soldiers can be seen with Luger P08s .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Luger P08 - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Luger is used by Fiete Jansen (Hans-Peter Minetti ) during an ambush of the 1923 Hamburg Uprising. The man next to him holds a Gew. 88. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Alland fires his Luger during the same ambush. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Hauptmann Quadde (Werner Peters ) leads a charge on a Spartakus newspaper barricade.Rifles Gewehr 1898 The Gewehr 98 is widely used by German soldiers, Freikorps troops, and left-wing members (Spartakisten , USPD, KPD).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser Gewehr 1898 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser Gewehr 1898M - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing While on his way to developing an important message for his comrades, Hannes Harms (Wilfried Ortmann ) takes cover with his Gewehr. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A G98 hanging between German soldiers in a shelter. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freikorps officers getting arrested with Gew. 98s.Error creating thumbnail: File missing Red members take the police's rifles. Note the different rear sights: The left Gewehrs have post-war tangent-leaf rear sight while the right rifles have Lange Visier s. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Insurgent with their Gewehr 98s before the Hamburg uprising. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Gewehr of the soldier in the background is fitted with an SG 98/05 bayonet. Karabiner 98AZ A broken rifle that could be a Karabiner 98AZ is briefly seen lying in the mud.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 98AZ - 7.92x57mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Note the grasping groove, tangent-leaf rear sight and the missing bolt handle. Lebel Mle. 1886 Some French Lebel 1886s are used by German soldiers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lebel Model 1886 - 8x50mmR Lebel File:ErnstThälmannSon-Lebel1.jpg The soldier in center and on the left have Lebel rifles. Karabiner 98b During various uprisings of the 1920s in the Weimar Republic, Reichswehr troops can be seen with Karabiner 98b . Some of them are equipped with S84/98 bayonets for the Karabiner 98k .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mauser Karabiner 98b - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A soldier getting hit by a stone holds a Karabiner 98b. The rifle has a bent bolt handle, tangent-leaf rear sight, and full-length barrel. Error creating thumbnail: File missing This Kar 98b seems also to be equipped with an S84/98 bayonet. Gewehr 1888/05 Both Weimar forces and insurgents have Gewehr 1888/05 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gewehr 1888/05 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Members of the Kapp Putsch marching with Gewehr 88 rifles. Error creating thumbnail: File missing One Freikorps officer tries to hold back insurgents with the buttstock of his rifle. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An insurgent points his Gew. 88 at a Kapp Putsch member. Note the swastika on their helmets as a sign of their warlike appearance. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A line of red insurgents armed with Gew. 88. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Police forces advancing in the streets of Berlin. Their rifles have side-mounted bayonets. Karabiner 1888 The Karabiner 1888 is also seen in some scenes.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Karabiner 1888 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Sturmmann named Müller complains why the truck blocking the road. Machine Guns Maxim MG 08 Maxim MG08s are used by both factions. Some are fitted with modified Interbellum muzzle boosters.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim MG08 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing Reichswehr soldiers transporting the Maxim to crack down the Spartacist uprising in 1919.Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Spartakist defends the encircled building. In this scene, and in many more, the gunner and belt carrier only wiggle the gun/ammo belt. The top cover is not closed properly and bobs up and down. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Soldiers awaiting the command to open fire at demantrants. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Reichswehr Maxim team trying to repel an ambush in a street of Hamburg. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Otto Kramer (Gerhard Bienert ) mans an MG08. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim M1910 An abandoned Russian Maxim M1910 lies next to a German trench.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim M1910 with 'Sokolov' wheel mount, w/o shield - 7.62x54mmR Error creating thumbnail: File missing The end box is seen on the left. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Note the ribbed water jacket. Maxim MG08/15 What appears to be a Maxim MG08/15 modified with a fore-mounted bipod is briefly seen.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Maxim MG08/15 - 7.92x57mm Mauser Error creating thumbnail: File missing An unused MG08/15 with the fore mounted bipod is seen on the right. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two soldiers on the right seem to be using this Maxim as well. It is Other Flare Gun An unknown flare gun is used by a German officer during the trench defending.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The flare gun is seen with the standing soldier next to the entrance of the shelter. Stielhandgranate Stick grenade mockups that resemble Model 16 Stielhandgranates are used by soldiers and insurgents. The fact that there are only 2 grenades seen at a time suggests that there were only 2 mockups.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Model 16 Stielhandgranate Error creating thumbnail: File missing A stick grenade attched to Alland's belt. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Two Stielhandgranate n in front of Alland. 10.5 cm leichte Feldhaubitze 18 Anachronistic 10.5 cm leichte FeldHaubitze 18 are used by German soldiers and Kapp putschists.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Leichte Feldhaubitze 18 - 105mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing A lFh 18 under the command of Hauptmann Quadde on the Western Front. Error creating thumbnail: File missing A light howitzer being pushed into position during streetfighting against Spartacists in 1919. Error creating thumbnail: File missing At the start of the 1920 Kapp Putsch, putschists uncover a hidden howitzer from a barn. 15 cm sIG 33 The 15 cm sIG 33 , also anachristic for WWI and the early 1920s, can be seen.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Schweres Infanteriegeschütz (sIG) 33 - 149.1 mm (5.87 in) Error creating thumbnail: File missing An sIG 33 in No Man's Land can be seen in the left distance. Error creating thumbnail: File missing The gun being towed in the right. Mark A Whippet tank A British Mk. A Whippet tank is used by the Freikorps during the Spartacist Uprising in 1919. This tank seems to be a real one rather than a mockup that could be purchased from the Soviet Union for the movie. Historically the use of this tank is correct; the Whippet tank "A249" was used by the Freikorps . This tank was captured by German troops in 1918 at Bray, France. After the uprising, the Allies took it back, and was then scrapped.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The tanks provides covering fire for the advancing infantry. Armored Car An armored car is used by the Reichswehr in Hamburg, which is a replica to resemble an Ehrhardt E-V/4.
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