You're welcome, John. If you have other questions, please let me know. By the way, I found a reference to your German awardee which mentioned precisely the decoration: http://www.morarup.narod.ru/Biog/Ellgering.htm. If you don't read Romanian, it says that Ellgering was a German counsellor for administrative organisation who came to Romania together with the state minister Karl Pflaumer and offered assistance in the reorganisation of the Romanian territories liberated from the Soviet occupation in the summer of 1941. He was based in Cernăuţi (Czernowitz). In november 1941, general Corneliu Calotescu, governor of [Northern] Bukovina proposed Ellgering for decoration for the contribution to the administration and to the Romanisation of the economic life of the region [ - I hope this meant the dismantling of the Soviet structures put in place during the one year of occupation and the transfer of economic activities to the Romanian civilian administration]. On 25 November 1941, Marshal Ion Antonescu transferred the decision to [Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister] Mihai Antonescu. It appears that the final resolution was positive.