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On 12/10/2005 at 19:27, Deruelle said:

General von Plettenberg

Another one of him and others 

Спасибо большое. Надеюсь не пристраститься к русским наградам ?

1 hour ago, Jurgen Fritz said:

 Greetings ! A Buckle of the Reichswehr found in Stalingrad?

How is it possible that those are worn in the

German Wehrmacht at this Time? Any INFO apreciated 

Regards Jurgen

Hello, yes they were still in use. My uncle send me this photo from his collection ?

13 hours ago, speedytop said:

This is better?

 

Uwe

Much better ??

On 06/01/2022 at 15:44, BlackcowboyBS said:

 

3 hours ago, speedytop said:

Thank you very much. But the picture of the card is very cruel for such a text. I hope that my boyfriend would never use suche a photo to send me such text ?

11 hours ago, Great Dane said:

Something along the lines of:

 

Dearest!

Thanks so much for [... some kind of card?...].

I'm coming back on the 15th of t(his) m(onth).

See you.

Thank you very much. ?

Can some read the text for me. It would be very helpful - at least I hope so 

8 hours ago, VtwinVince said:

Could very well be an award of the EK on war ribbon for 'Heimat-Verdienste'.

Thank you very much ?

Hello all, it's me again. Is this a non combatant bar? Because there are no swords on the Hindenburg cross. 

I thought the baden war merit medal is a combat award

Hi, when I read it correctly his name is голев, григорий андреевич

13 hours ago, BlackcowboyBS said:

Today I would like to present you the following two medal bars. The triple combination of service award for 21 years, merit cross of Henry the Lion and Braunschweig war merit cross at the non-combatant ribbon is found so only on order bars of Braunschweig gendarmes. (At least I don't know of any bar where this isn't the case).
Decisive here is the 21 years DA, which after Brunswick joined the military convention, was awarded only to this group. Soldiers received from this time only the Prussian counterparts. So we hold that medal bars that clearly have a connection to World War I and have the Brunswick award for 21 years of service on them are 99.5% from Brunswick gendarmes. (Soldiers who received this award prior to 1886 were most likely too old to receive World War I awards as well.)

The merit crosses were usually awarded to this target group after faithful and dutiful service, although the number of years of service could vary here. Oberwachtmeister usually received the 1st Class of the Cross of Merit (HdL)at some point, while Wachtmeister received only the 2nd Class. However, in 1916 not every Oberwachtmeister (senior constable) listed in the Hof- und Staatshandbuch had received a 1st class Merit Cross.

The Braunschweig War Merit Cross on the noncombatant ribbon is also found more frequently among this group of people, it could be received for many supporting activities, for example, Wachtmeister Schwarze, to whom the second medal bar can be assigned, received it for training the youth in sports and thus strengthening the military force.

Of the Oberwachtmeister mentioned in the Court and State Manual, the following 13 persons are listed with the combination of the Cross of Merit 1st Class, Service Award 21 years and Landwehr DA 2nd Class (in parentheses the year of the award of the Merit Cross 1st class):

 

- Christian Schlüter, Oberwachtmeister d. Hauptstelle Braunschweig (1909).

- Friedrich Schaumburg, Oberwachtmeister, Thedinghausen  (1909)

- Herman Schichow, Oberwachtmeister, Vechelde (1915)

- August Heyer, Oberwachtmeister, Wolfenbüttel Headquarters (1909)

- Heinrich Leineweber, Oberwachtmeister, Schöppenstedt (1905)

- Heinrich Heyer, Oberwachtmeister, Vorsfelde (1915)

- Ernst Jachmann, Oberwachtmeister, Helmstedt  (1911)

- Heinrich Schlenker, Oberwachtmeister, Lutter am Berge  (1916)

- Franz Rose, Oberwachtmeister, Seesen (according to list only VK2)

- August Schulze, Oberwachtmeister, Gandersheim  (1915)

- Heinrich Reulecke, Oberwachtmeister, Stadtoldendorf  (1910)

- Heinrich Lillig, Oberwachtmeister Eschershausen  (1910)

- Konrad Ruprecht, Oberwachtmeister Ottenstein (1911)

 

Some other Oberwachtmeister have another decoration which does not appear on the present bar or have only the Merit Cross 2nd. class, so that they cannot be considered as bearers of the upper bar.

Since the Merit Cross 1st. class is a silver-gilt example from Siebrecht's production, only the awards that took place between August 1909 and April 1912 can be considered. Franz Rose I can prove with the lists in the state archives WF only with the mc 2nd, here the court and state handbook apparently errs. So that leaves 7 possible candidates as original wearers for the upper medal bar. My question, does anyone have award lists of the Prussian Order of Merit for War Aid and can match these 7 names (in bold above) there? I can't narrow down the possible wearer any closer at the moment. Possible maybe when I am back in Wolfenbüttel in the archives.

The lower order bar is a typical bar of a Wachtmeister (constable), who either was subordinated to the Oberwachtmeister in a main station or who was on duty in a branch station of the ducal gendarmerie corps for example and then led it. The combination of the Order of Merit 2nd class, DA 21 years and LW-DA 2nd class appears 20 times for Wachtmeister, the combination of DA 21 years and LW-DA 2 still 16 times. However, this bar also has the silver medal of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. This medal was only awarded to a Wachtmeister and a Oberwachtmeister. 

 

Since the Oberwachtmeister wore the higher class of the Merit Cross , the wearer of this second bar can only be Karl Schwarze, who was in charge of the branch office on the southern edge of the Duchy of Brunswick near Blankenburg in the Harz village of Altenbrak. The Mecklenburger might have been given to the two gendarmes as a courtesy gesture award when the Duke of Mecklenburg was visiting the Guelph castle in Blankenburg, which served as a summer residence.

 

So we have here two nice non combat bars from Brunswick and some history behind it! 

 

 

That's do cool. My family lives in Blankenburg Harz! ??

Hello my friends, here my second red star. It's awarded for action in the city of Malack. Comrade Golev and his man captured a German car with a machine gun. He followed the retreating enemy and captured the enemy position. 

Hello my friends, I found this photo of an unknown Oberst. I know it's a long shot but maybe someone know his name

On 13/06/2021 at 07:43, hoh1851 said:

I have checked some further sources but unfortunately no birth year.

Thank you do much for your work ?

Hello you both, thank you very much for your answers! 

No, I sadly didn't know when he received both medals. 

Thank you very much for the additional informations. Do you have his birth year to? 

???

On 20/05/2021 at 10:04, Elmar Lang said:

Hello,

 

this is not related to Russia, but it's the lowest class cross of the Military Order (aka "Military Distinction") of St.George of the Duchy of Lucca so, to be classified amongst the "former Italian States". The crowned, "CL" Monogram is that of the Duke Carlo Lodovico.

 

The correct ribbon is white, with broad, red side stripes.

 

I hope this information would be of some help,

 

best wishes,

 

Enzo (E.L.)

That's cool thank you for the information! 

2 hours ago, Eric Gaumann said:

I've got a lot of similar chain if anyone ever needs some.  Similar, but not identical.

Ohh that's cool. Now I need to find a small airplane (not for me but for the badge ?) 

11 hours ago, JapanX said:

This is a fake St.George Cross for non-christians. 

 

See

 

OH OK. I don't collect those. I always thought that these were modern day Russian at George crosses 

Hollo. No, the modern version has the Russian eagle on it

Thank you both for your kind words. Yes this is a quite nice badge. 

Thank you JapanX for the additional informations. It's quite interesting 

I think it would be impossible to find those chains and the airplane to make the badge whole again 

?

Today I got this from my uncles "parts box"

To bad the small aeroplane and the chains are missing 

Thank you ?

Супер. Спасибо большое!

Так что это тип 3 вариант 2

Hello all,  got this badge from my uncle. It's nothing like the other badge I got. It has a serial (?) number on it. Ist this an old one? 

A named medal bar from my uncles collection. It's pretty cool that this guy got the iron cross and the Austrian medal pretty close together