occupationoftheruhr

See www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hEE-dG_NGA for a Pathe News piece on the same or similar anti-occupation protest in Berlin in early 1923. www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/German-Photographer/... is a scan from the Illustrated London News of a similar shot.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal_(Essen) Using Google Translate "After the foundation stone was laid on August 26, 1898 without a special celebration, the entire monument was inaugurated on October 23, 1898 in the middle of Burgplatz." "In the course of a comprehensive redesign of the inner city, an urban planning concept was sought in a first architecture competition in 1924 to redesign the Burgplatz in a big city. As a result, the area of the square, which had previously sloped to the east, was straightened and connected to Burgstrasse with a wide staircase. In 1928 the equestrian statue was finally moved to its current location on the southwestern edge of Burgplatz, near the Lichtburg building, directly on Burgstrasse, with a new, simplified base without a terrace." 2017 360° picture of statue in current location at goo.gl/maps/1RstDLe81X7KGhrHA

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr "The Occupation of the Ruhr (German: Ruhrbesetzung) was a period of military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium between 11 January 1923 and 25 August 1925."

According to the Perth Amboy evening news. [volume], January 26, 1923, FINAL EDITION, Page 10, caption of photo, this is General Ramont chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035720/1923-01-26/ed-...

Other sources indicate that his name was Rampon, s. e.g. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90235045.item

There was a General Camille Marie Eugène RAMPONT (1869 - 1939, museedesetoiles.fr/portfolio_tag/general-rampont/), but this is apperently the other guy cited in the newspaper above (called Lamport there), s. also photo in Evening star. [volume], February 11, 1923, Image 74 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1923-02-11/ed-...