Komtur

At least that wasn´t imposible.

Dr. Karl Friedrich Müller

Oberstabsarzt Dr. Georg König

HEK3X Kramer, Benno, Lazarett-Pfarrer in Roulers, Etappeninspektion 4. Armee am 22.10.1916

Friedrich Drenker

This bar came along with two other bars of a very special combination, wich of this reason were researchable for his son Ferdinand Esser. So it seems likely, to attribute the other bar to a relative and therefore the father Robert Esser was found promtly. As often in these cases, all the glory belongs to Daniel ?. Later I found the portrait, where Robert Esser wore exactly the bar I´ve got. Both missing decorations are to be seen there clearly.

Yes it is. As commander of SMS Hertha from April 1908 to March 1909 Hugo Louran got the scarce medal of merit in silver.

Robert Esser

Vizeadmiral Hugo Louran

Generalmajor Maximilian Lesser The Baden order was removed, probably because of return. By comparing the medal bar with the one worn by Lesser after May 1905, the position of the Baden order was changed later. Supposing, he wore the bar because of political reasons in that way in his late private life, I leave the sequence of decorations as I found it and only replaced the Zähringer Lion.

Landesbankdirektor und Hauptmann der Landwehr Kuno Dopfer The medalbar was linked with the name of Dopfer at an auction and came with two long service crosses. Interestingly Dopfer was mentioned indeed in the Prussian sources with the Prussian cross and in the Bavarian ones with their cross. I am until now not sure, if he was officially qualified for both. It is quite possible, he got them by mistake, because of his service in the Bavarian Army and his place of residence in Hohenzollern (belonging to Prussia).

Ernst Freiherr von Mirbachs medal bar and its Ottoman medal of the Kaisers visit to Konstantinopel in 1889: 1. as sold in Thies auction 1988 (probably in the original version of sewed ribbons) 2. as sold in Thies auction 2004 (evidently the ribbon of the Ottoman medal was removed and refixed in a different manner) 3. as sold in Künker auction 2017 (the Ottoman medal was turned) 4. as sold by a renowned medal dealer in 2018 (the Ottoman medal and its ribbon was removed and permanently separated from the medalbar) 5. after replacing the missing medal The original Ottoman medal in gold was in 2017 removed by the acquirer, who was obviously only interested in this very scarce medal. The then missing medal and ribbon was replaced with a contemporary bronze gilded medal and its original ribbon.

Ranglisten des Königreichs Sachsen may be of some use.

I showed some more of the pictures here. There is a medical promotion written about this person. The author mediated the contact to a female descendant in Berlin. The agile about 90 years old lady left documents and pictures to me for copying them. Unfortunately I have because of moving in a new flat now no access to my library and can´t have a look at the above mentioned promotion.

The owner was a Saxon reserve officer and civil servant. The Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion seems to be an officer grade. This is a scarce decoration and there exists a printed list of the awards. To look at this list for Saxons could lead to the person, you are looking for. Regards, Komtur.

She is! I met her daughter about 15 years ago and scanned the pictures of Schjerning I showed before.

Yes, for the Komturstern it was according to the regulations.

Some portraits of him:

It means "am weißen Bande mit schwarzen Seitenstreifen". Regards, Komtur.

Thank you for your answer. Sorry, my question wasn´t precise enough - I thought there could be a printed source or a portrait of Böse showing these two decorations.

Very interesting! What is the source you found the last both decorations for Böse?

Russland Rot-Kreuz-Medaille Bremen Hanseatenkreuz

In the end I could find the real bar of Marine-Generaloberarzt Dr. Konrad Bobrik ?

IMHO these are silver gilt ones. The Hohenzollern is not an officially awarded one. It seems to be made after 1918 and could be at the best an exile award after 1930. In the end a strange combination with at least some doubts. Regards, Komtur. Gilt as stated in the beginning ...