Komtur

Sorry Rick for the late answer, but I wanted to wait, what the dealer says about your opinion. As far as I know, he is serious. He wrote, there is no doubt, it is Mosaners bar. It came from his familiy and there where pictures with him and the bar, but they don?t want to sell or to copy them. Additionaly he told me, the Jubilee Medal 1898 was also in WW1 often given to officers on different occasions. There were no documents and no lists about these awards, so it is not unusual, not to find this medal in the official lists. I think, I can trust him and leave it as the Mosaner-bar in my collection. Best regards, Komtur. Almanach f?r die k. und k. Kriegsmarine 1918:

A medal of the Wiener Akademie Turnverein and his bar.

Miniaturchain

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This small group belongs to Dr. Rudolf Mosaner, as the dealer told me, he found him in Austrian rank lists as Linienschiffsarzt der Reserve, born in 1877, after the war Bezirksarzt of Lienz. Can anyone help with the Austrian Milit?rschematismus? Best regards, Komtur.

Oh, thanks, but shame on me. My knowledge about decoration covers not the time after 1918. He could be a kind of Kreisarzt or in another official position. May be someone find him in a post 1918 Handbuch f?r das Deutsche Reich? All together there is no doubt, that this bar belonged to Dr. Max Auer. Most of the decorations on that bar we can find in the Stammliste des Marine-Sanit?ts-Offizierskorps of 1919 except the Red Cross Medal 3rd class. This is not suspicious, because the decorations with that medal last until 1921. Thanks to all again. Regards, Komtur.

Thanks Paul, thanks Glenn But how he could get the 3rd Reich Dienstauszeichnung, when he retired in 1919? Reactivation in the age of 60? Could we confirm this with a later rank list? Best regards, Komtur.

Marine Ehrenrangliste

Marine Rangliste 1918

Stammliste des Marine-Sanit?ts-Offizierskorps 1906

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This bar was sold with the name of Dr. Max Auer, Marine-Generaloberarzt d. R. PaulC, what we know about him from the 1918 Stammliste der Marine-Sanit?tsoffiziere? Best regards, Komtur.

The Prussian Red Cross Medal 3rd class where made of bronze. The material changed in June 1916 to iron. Already from January 1917 this medal was produced in zinc ("Kriegsmetall"). That short peroid of iron medals may be the reason, that they are not to frequent to be seen. These are informations from Orden-Militaria-Magazin 87 Dezember 1998. The author Scharfenberg used a primary source: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preu?ischer Kulturbesitz Berlin Dahlem / Acta generalia der Kgl. General-Ordens-Commission ?ber die Rothe Kreuz-Medaille 1898-1931. The article of Elke Bannicke in Numismatisches Heft 3 / 1996 published the numbers of medals produced in the Berliner M?nze: Bronze: 41.900 (1898-1916) Eisen: 17.900 (1916) Zink: 61.020 (1916-1921) (50.000 by Berliner M?nze and 11.020 by firm Oertel) However the iron version is not really rare. Best regards, Komtur.

The above one is about 33 mm. Regards, Komtur.

It belonged to me Until now the bar is unfortunately not identified. The backing is a very dark blue. Best regards.

Prussian Stabsarzt

... and at least one is a knight of the Johanniter.

From the same book a group of some officials of the medical aid from different organisations. A few are from the Red Cross ...

Hm, you?ve got me I can?t tell you that in detail. I have a picture of a Johanniter knight in uniform for 1870/71 but can not find it now - I have to organize myself in a better way. The picture above is no doubt from WW1. The Johanniterorden supplied the red cross medical aid in WW1 for instance with 64 hospitals for about 4000 beds, they sended about 1900 nurses behind the frontier and supplied 3 special trains for sick and wounded. In the picture you can see the surgery waggon of such a train of the Johanniter (Information and picture from "Unter dem Roten Kreuz im Weltkriege - Das Buch der freiwilligen Krankenpflege" Berlin 1934). That all was organized by a hand full of knights wearing their own uniforms similar to that of the red cross officials. Unfortunately I am not able to tell you anything about rank distinctions. Regards, Komtur.

I think you are right. The person is wearing the uniform of an official of the Johanniterorden. Regards, Komtur.

How different these marks can be! HOSSAUER on the same class and model. Regards, Komtur.

With that scarce decoration you should always be careful. There exist lots of copies of the Oldenburg houseorder. Especially the one with laurels discussed here was sold on Thies auction Dec. 2003 as a modern copy. With regards, Komtur.

And here we find his Johanniter Ehrenritter: Gothaisches Genealogische Taschenbuch der Gr?fliche H?user 1917 IMO he is wearing on the foto above the uniform of the Johanniter!

From Wer ist?s, Herrmann Degener, Unsere Zeitgenossen, 1914. As written there Graf von Bassewitz is to be found in the rank list 1998 in the Th?ringisches Husarenregiment Nr. 12 as Premierleutnant and Adjutant without any decoration. Best regards, Komtur.

It is exactly that book. "Festfahrt" means in that context not much more then journey. Best regards, Komtur.