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    Dr Viktor von Zahn-Stranik


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    I just bought a nice photo on ebay from the German Diplomat Dr Viktor von Zahn-Stranik. The seller told me that he had just sold al the awards from this man. Did anyone save the photo's?

    Does anyone have more info on this man? Carrier? Awards?

    I will post the photo asap

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    The only info I can find is that he appears to have been a high ranking official in the German Foreign Office during the 1950s. At least Ministerialdirigent, maybe Staatssekret?r.

    Regards

    Chris

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    • 7 years later...

    Quite an array there...

    Neck badges: German Order of Merit - possibly Grand Merit Cross (Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens) given the lack of a star from this order amidst the array (he may just have run out of space!) and the Italian Order of Merit.

    Stars: Sweden Order of the Northern Star Commander 1st Class, Spain Order of Isabella the Catholic, Portugal Order of Christ, Portugal Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, the other one will have to wait until I am at home with my references!

    Sash: Looks like Portugal Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.

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    • 3 months later...

    Recently I wrote that he was a distant relative, more exactly, the cousin of my grandmother. His father and my grandmothers father were brothers, out of a family of farmers in a German village of northern Bohemia. The oldest brother took a military career in the Austrian Army, where he was ennobled and changed his name from "Zahn" to "von Zahn, Edler von Lichtenhöhe". His son Victor went to an Austrian Diplomatic Academy which he finished after WWI. He worked as a diplomat for Ceko-Slovakia, probably until the German Annexion of 1938. During the war, he is said to have worked for the German War Administration in Belgium or the Netherlands. After WWII, he worked for the German Foreign Office as a negotiator of bi-laterial trade agreements. It seems that his main achievement was the first German-Soviet Trade Agreement. He had a wife, but no children, and died in 1973 near Munich. That's all our family knows about him, because there  was not much contact between the brothers and there descendants. But hopefully I'll soon know more when I saw his personal file at the foreign office in Berlin.

    Unfortunately, our family has no pictures of him, and so I would be very glad if you could send my a copy or I high-quality scan of the photo you posted.

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