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Thanks for your reply and your explanations. Danke!

Hi ! Just wanted to show you one of my portrait photos. The highly decorated guy is R. Schröder Branddirektor in Weimar (Firedirector in Weimar - at this time Freistaat Thüringen/Weimar era) I.m.o. the picture must have been taken in the late 1920s bevor the 3rd Reich. Schröder is wearing the following decorations (as i could id them) -Feuerwehrverdienstkreuz Thüringer Feuerwehrverband 1927-1934 -Deutsches Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. oder 2nd class 1929-36 - ???????? -Verdienstkreuz Württembergischer Landesfeuerwehrverband 1924-1936 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz Landesverband freiwilliger hessischer Feuerwehren 1930-36 -Preussen Lebensrettungsmedaille bis 1918 -????? not to id -Ehrenkreuz des badischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes 1926-36 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz des bayerischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes rote Ausführung 1926-36 -Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. Modell Freistaat Thüringen 1920-1925 -Freistaat Thüringen Lebensrettungsmedaille -Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 2. Modell -Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 1. Modell - je 1925-34 -(rare to find on pics): Feuerwehr Verdienstkreuz des Provinzialfeuerwehrverbandes Sachsen (ca 1925; i can see the saxon coat on arms on the avers side) -Preussen Goldenes (?) Feuerwehrehrenzeichen für Verdienst um das Feuerlöschwesen 1923-1934 (rare to find on pics): Sachsen/Weimar Ehrenzeichen für Mitglieder der Feuerwehren 1890-1918 and finally: Rot Kreuz Ehrenkreuz 3.Klasse des Anhaltinischen Landesverbands vom Roten Kreuz 17 decorations. Does somebody know which cross could it be on position 3? Thanks for help and watching.

Glenn, that`s g r e a t - thx one thousand times again. 🤚 Best !

Thanks for your reply. I have a few ones, too. The following is definitely my best one: Bavarian Prof. Julius von Michel, later president of the Wuerzburg University Bavaria; dated 1900. Does anybody know more about the 2nd decoration of my first shown pic?

Hello together A few days ago i got this CDV of a prussian non-combatant. On the back also his name: I think it means "Westphal" and a date Metz (Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine) Sept. 1904. I think it`s a higher prussian official as for example a Regierungs or Rechnungsrat. I had a look into the 1877 list and found for example a Westphal Albert Polizeikommissar in Straßburg (also in A-L.) with IC on non-combatant ribbon for 1870. On the CDV he`s wearing: -IC 1870 n/c. with oaks -??????? I believe an prussian GMVK, if i am right for 1866 no MEZ1 were awarded. -RAO4 (red eagle 4) -Kriegsdenkmünze 1870 for n./c. (war memorial medal for 1870 n./c.) -Kreuz für 1866 (cross for 1866 with combatant`s ribbon) -Centenarmedaille (Centenialmedal) 1897 The problem is, that i cannot find a Westphal with GMVK or MEZ1. Or could it be another decoration on schwarz-weißen (black/white) "war ribbon" - as for example a RAO4 without X? Thanks for input / help.

It`s the MMM not a cross. The medal is ok.

I like the bar - but i`ve never seen such an early bar with this "Nicholl" hooks on it. I would let the bar as it is now.

Thanks for your answers. Does Paul still has the bar?

Bethmann-Hollweg got the EK2w 1914 and the 1st class of it - as only a few persons.

Hi together, First: I wish you a happy, healthy New Year 2021. Second: I found an old thread about GFM Model and his bar here in the forum. As some of you know, i also collect pics and postcards (photo cards) of military personel of the German Army. I few days ago, i could get the shown card. The seller didn`t know the name of that guy. Imo the card shows the later GFM Walter Model - here as a Hauptmann of the Reichswehr. If i am right, the AGFA sign on the back signs to me, that the photo was taken in around 1923. I cannot produce a better result with my scanner. The shown bar shows a frosty framed EK (and bigger sized - produced after 1918) as you can see on "his" bar of the old thread. I am nearly sure to see the damage of the 6 o`clock crossarm of his MVO4X - what i also can see is, the early thin swords of the MVO. - so my personal opinion is, that Paul`s bar definitely belonged to him. In the mid of 1930s (after the Wehrmacht was "founded") the LSC`s were added to the shown bar. My pic was also shown in the book of the old thread. Best. Joe, Germany

i like it

I did not know, that Sedlatzek produced these pieces.

bevor Liakat: Heiliger Michael imo.

No, - very hard to find

Very nice pieces. Send it to me in Germany. ?