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Yes, now that you said it, the ribbon also fits for the Mecklenburg MVK

I was just scrolling through the pictures of the Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt, you can find on Google maps and saw this interesting bar (I hope I am not violating any copyrights through pasting it here) Are there two iron crosses on it?(there must be something wrong) Maybe someone was at the museum and knows to whom this uniform belonged

If I remember correctly his batton (and Interimsstab???) is in the Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt, would be interesting if someone knows where the rest is... Mackensen in Hungary: https://youtu.be/6aVoTtTBuBA Don't know if this was at the same time as the video:

Does anyone know where these were used?:

Did the commander of the guard corps always wear such cuirassier type collars? I am still learning lots of things, the variaties in german army insignia is magnificent.

Well you're right In Austria it was more stict, there was no promotion from 1867 (Edmund zu Schwarzenberg) till 1914 (Erzherzog Friedrich) except two "political" ones (1900 Wilhelm II, 1904 Eduard VII,), the Kaiser always wore field marshal insignia i think

I think the main issue is that the GFM was reserved for winning a battle ord even campaign or taking over a fortress or similiar, so giving the rank (maybe "title" would be more accurate) to someone who did nothing of that would lower its dignity somehow...

That was interesting, thanks I just looked it up in one of my books For Wilhelm II. it took until shortly before his promotion to an austrian field maeshal in 1900 to be made a Feldmarschall. In 1900 he lay on field marshalls insignia by wish of his GFMs ("auf die von den General-Feldmarschällen namens der Armee ausgesprochene Bitte die Feldmarschallabzeichen angelegt") It was seen reasonable for the Chef der preußischen Armee und Obersten Kriegherrn des dt. Reiches. The inscription on his batton says: "AUF WUNSCH MEINES HEERES" and "WILHELM II KÖNIG VON PREUSSEN 3. Mai 1900"

Yes but I think it took until about 1900??? till he did wear the field marschall insignia, the date should be engraved in his batton which is in Doorn I think

Those are his epaulettes in the Burg Hohenzollern (from the thread, picture from Claudio): If I remember correctly Wilhelm the Second was promoted as prussian Feldmarschall after he was made an austrian one by the wish of his army...

Did they get a Feldmarschallstab (field marshal batton)? or were these reserved only for real Feldmarschälle

Wasn't Kusmanek himself born in Hermannstadt?

One of the postcards: Source: Google Bilder To bring back some balance, a captured french flag: Source: Bavarian Armeemuseum thread

In prussian hussars uniform:

in Spain: Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga: Cirilo de Alameda y Brea: Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez:

Would be nice if there is an expert on the order of the holy spirit. I know that there were 8 Ecclesiastic members the Commandeurs (Commanders), where these the only priest allowed in? It seems like the whole thing of wearing commander-insignia around the neck origins from this special form of wearing sashs??? Does anyone know anything that confirms these theory?

Charles-Antoine de la Roche-Aymon: Gravure de Pierre Drevet d'après Hyacinthe Rigaud: Rivau lived from 1664-1739, the Order of St.Stephen was founded 1764, so I came up with the theory this was a french thing, adapted to the Austrian Orders when founded, Does anyone know if the "sash style waering" in generall was first done by the french (thinking of the Holy Spirit Cordon bleu)

At the Ordre du Saint-Esprit (Order of the Holy Spirit - highest royal french order) this "sash"-style existed too: Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre - Cardinal-Archishop of Toulouse: Source:Wikipedia Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne:

Has anyone more pictures of Kaiser Karl wearing foreign uniforms...

Nice pickup! The Orden vom Heiligen Michael is one of my favorits.

Prince Cesarevitch Guedroitz, Chamberlain of the Court of Imperial Russia 1873-1941 Museum of the Legion of Honor, Hotel de Salm:

Thats a picture of a procession in Florenz:

Thats interesting, the Order of the Black Eagle (Prussia) had a similiar regulation, were you get the Red Eagle Order grandcross to be worn around the neck, but if there was a regulation for the clergy i don't know. Thats a nice piece, I would love to own As you can see from the pictures above, it was a normal thing during the imperial times, they just transfered the tradition into the republic.

Wow, thank you for sharing those great pictures. The difference to the austrian orders i can see (correct me if I'm wrong) is, that it seems like they got the same sash as normally, but wear them around the neck, whereas the austrian sashs were specially sewn for priests (without any rosettes or meshs and without the two ends, not that long and it seems like they even have a curvature to fit better) On the first picture Carol shared of Bishop Melchisedec the two upper sashs look like miniature sashs, very interesting