I have already posted blog entries about my two favorite photos. My top favorite photo of all time is of granduncle Will Maier – Why is My Uncle Wearing a Dress?
Second in the line-up is Kate Daniel – One Arm Annie.
After that, there are just too many photos that I love and I can’t say that I have a favorite; but I did manage to select one for this week. It is of my grandfather’s younger brother, Willy Kurt Richard Lindner, known as Uncle Kurt to my family. Kurt was born in Plauen, Dresden, Saxony, to Emil Heinrich Max Lindner and Anna Maria Kessler Lindner on 25 April 1893. He had two older brothers, Max and Otto.
I know that my grandfather served in the German Navy around 1911, but I am not sure about Kurt. In 1912, Otto decided to join his grandmother in the United States. I am not certain what year Kurt decided to emigrate, but by 1922 he was in Stockholm where he would live for the remainder of his life. This photo of Kurt and his motorcycle was taken in January 1922. The inscription on the back says “motorrad Mars.”
It must have been a frigid place to ride a motorcycle in Sweden in the dead of winter. I selected this photo because my husband is a bit obsessed with motorcycles and I ride along on the back with him, because this is what he loves.
It was fascinating for me to find this photo of Uncle Kurt and to see this side of him. Was this just an inexpensive mode of transportation or did Kurt find it thrilling?
And speaking of uncles wearing dresses, here are the three Lindner brother in 1896. The one in the middle wearing a dress is Kurt.
