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Hello all, I need your help.... Anyone has a photo of Friedrich Schultz, Konteradmiral and Vizeadmiral during ww1??? He was commander of 2. and 1. Marine Division, and before the war for example commander of SMS VINETA.... I am not able to find any photo in the net... It doesn't matter if he is young or old in your photo... Hope someone has a Pic Thanks for your help Heiko
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Mira that info from his Bremen address is from the adressbook of the Marine Offiziers Verein in which he was a member. That was my thinking too... He got the bear with swords for complete being in China... I think there were not too many men from Anhalt - if it was for a special combat action I would expect a KO4X too...not only the award from his home state
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My first Weimar Medal Bar
HeikoGrusdat replied to Uffz. Rohleder's topic in Germany: Weimar Republic & Deutsche Freikorps
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Hello Mira, back as promised.... That`s what we are doing....collecting and researching , digging out the details from the dust of history. The informations of the orders and awards given to your great-grandpa are from so called Ranglisten , in these lists all the officers of the army and the navy were listed , with their ranks and positions and with the awards they got - the only small problem is that Prussian Ranglisten only showed the real orders , not awards or simple medals for some wars for example. Then we have another source to use , it is the DOA (Deutscher Ordens Almanach) , the one from 1908 I attached...in this book are all awards listed (with some luck) a man got....so we can try to complete the story this way. Now a closer look.... in 1908 he had the PrZm - Preussen Zentenarmedaille or Centenarmedaille to remember the 100.birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I. in 1897 , nothing special , given to all man who were in active service in 1897 and to the Vets of the former wars + some other groups of men. Then he had the DChM - Chinadenkmünze , that sows that he has been to China with the Kreuzergeschwader in 1901 during the Boxer uprising PrKr4 - Preussen Kronenorden 4.Klasse , nearly the lowest ranking order a officer got during his career AnhA3bX - thats a bit more interesting , Anhalt Orden Albrecht des Bären Ritterkreuz 2.Klasse mit Schwertern , I think he got this because he was a Anhalt native and the swords indicate that it was given as a combat award for some action in China , but I have to check this... The next list I attached for you is from 1914 , interesting because it is before the great war. Here you dont see the medals , only the orders... now he got a Long service cross for officers for 25 years of service ( possible at that time because war years and oversee years count double) Next is the Preussen Roter Adler Orden 4.Klasse mit der Krone - typical award for navy officers after some years of service and the a foreign order , SS3a is the Schwert Orden of Sweden , Ritterkreuz Now jump to the end of the war....in 1918 you don`t see the Schwert Orden from sweden anymore because only german and awards of their allied nations were listed during the war... He got the AF - Anhalt Friedrichskreuz , again because Anhalt was his home state.... HH is the Hanseatenkreuz from Hamburg EK1 - Eisernes Kreuz 1.Klasse , that means that he have got the 2.Klasse too - these last 3 were typical ww1 awards as I said earlier , I am shure that he has got some more orders and awards during that last war year because the Rangliste 1918 is from 14.2.1918 - so 9 more months left to get some bling bling as commander of the Transportflotte to Finland he sould have got something more. That`s it for now....I gave you the german names of his orders so you can make googlesearches to see what they look like. all the best , if you have any questions we are here Heiko
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Hi Mira, don`t know if you know all the orders and awards your great-grandpa got during his career....so here are some of them , the late war awards from the Finland time are not listed here so maybe he have got some more.... hope this helps a bit... all the best Heiko this is from 1908 this is from 1914 and this from 1918