Talk:Reiterdenkmal, Windhoek

Another similar statue
There is a statue monument in Karlsruhe of a soldier of the Baden "Leib" (body?)-Dragoons on horseback - I do not think it is an officer. See the German WIkipedia article Leibdragonerdenkmal or the Karlsruhe city wiki http://ka.stadtwiki.net/Leibdragonerdenkmal Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 12:11, 7 February 2012 (UTC)


 * It's certainly unusual, but as well as the Karlsruhe one, there's a few others with "unnamed" soldiers on them - generic figures rather than named senior figures. At least one has an article on enwp - the South African War Memorial, from 1903. Shimgray &#124; talk &#124; 12:44, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Another example: the 17th Cavalry monument at Gettysburg ? Bagunceiro (talk) 14:59, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I assumed such examples would pop up on DYK day, thanks for your input. Does anyone want to insert a sentence putting Vogt's claim into perspective? -- I don't really have a good idea how to word this, and to which reference(s) to link it to. --Pgallert (talk) 22:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it should be deleted - it's clearly nonsense. Bagunceiro (talk) 22:20, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Uhm, I wouldn't just delete that. Vogt's claim was one of the core arguments against moving the statue to its new place, and he is quite prominent as the only researcher on Namibian National Monuments. Besides, I have yet to see a reference stating the (even approximate) rank of the depicted soldier--even for the South African War Memorial mentioned above we only know what rank the artist's model was but not whether the statue was actually meant to depict a warrant officer. So I am not even sure about the "incorrectly" yet. --Pgallert (talk) 00:10, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Vogt's Claim

 * Vogt says "Seit der Antike guerra ein Denkmal zu Pferde (Reiterdenkmal) nur Kaisern, Königen und Fürsten vorbehalten" - something like "Since ancient times equestrian monuments have been reserved for emperors, kings and princes". Nothing about "usually" or "officers". Bagunceiro (talk) 22:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)