The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrer" class="extiw" title="en:Führer">Führer</a>, Soldier for 25 Years<br>Immediately after the mobilization, on 3 August 1914, Adolf Hitler’s request to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ludwig_III" class="extiw" title="w:King Ludwig III">King Ludwig III</a> of Bavaria for entering the Bavarian Army was approved. On 16 August Adolf Hitler was accepted as a war volunteer and assigned to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 16 (commander: List), to which Adolf Hitler belonged up to the end of war.<br><p>The Führer with his war comrades of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16.<br></p>
From left to right: standing: Sperl (Munich), lithographer (?), Max Mund (Munich), gilder, sitting: Georg Wimmer (Munich), tram worker, Josef Inkofer (Munich), Lausamer (killed in action), the Führer, lying: Balthasar Brandmayer (Bad Aibling), bricklayer. 11 August 1939 [publication date] de-li-schm 115 Presse-Hoffmann
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