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first time I try chinese with https://www.deepl.com/translator#zh/en/ 匿踪百年碑成谜——探寻信号山“棣德利碑”遗迹
it seems to work
"Hundred Years of Monument Mystery - Exploring the Remains of Signal Hill's "Deidre's Monument
Hundreds of years of hiding monument become a mystery - to explore the remains of the Signal Hill "Deidre monument"
2018-12-28 20:41Signal Hill, 98 metres above sea level, is located in the southern district of Qingdao City, facing Qingdao Bay, is the city's higher elevation of the sea peak. From the top of the hill, the view, Trestle Bridge, Little Qingdao, Welcome Guest House and the blue sea and red tiles and green trees, the front of the sea scenery as far as the eye, Qingdao's beautiful scenery at a glance. At the top of Signal Hill, there are three red spherical buildings of different heights, which symbolise the red torch used to transmit signals in ancient China.
On 14 November 1897, Qingdao was captured by Vice Admiral Dietrich Dietrich, commander of the German East Asia Fleet. In the following year, on 14 November 1898, in order to show off his achievements and commemorate Dietrich, a monument commemorating the occupation of Qingdao was constructed on the hillside on the southwestern side of present-day Signal Hill, which was named Dietrich Monument after Dietrich, and named Signal Hill, which was initially known as Dupelo Hill, as Dupelo Hill, which was named Signal Hill, as Dupelo Hill. Signal Hill, which was first called "Duperu Hill", was named "Deidre Hill". In 1899, a signal station (commonly known as the Lookout Tower, which is now a spherical building), a radio station, a generator room and other facilities were built at the top of the hill, and in 1900, it became known as Signal-Berg "Signal Hill".
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I have seen pics with luftwaffe pilots wearing the "Silber C" on the uniform more than once. of course not at hand when you need an illustration.
the badge was and is an award from an international organisation but you get it by your national gliding origanisation on behalf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAI_Gliding_Commission
many different qualification badges can be seen on period pics, remember mountain guides with the austrain Heeresbergführer badge instead of the german badge or former czech army soldiers wearing the czech machine gun qualification badge on the wehrmacht uniform.
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beside the facts its not possible to see the medals in detail so knowing if they are only copys it makes no sense that someone had Udets medals as they were in 1934. I would say he was using his old medals for making the next medal bar we seeing on the pics with the luftwaffe long service medal last place. I also wonder why he wear his wound badge only on the last pic, its not common.
beside the fact the wound badge on this pic looks solid and the one in the frame looks like the cut out version.
people want to believe. its maybe startet with the medal bar that had the same combination like Ernst Udet's bar so the one who created the frame was believing to have the right stuff. after changing hands two or three times the fairy tale became more real every time.
question is what realy happen with Udet's awards.
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Kapitains zur See Hans Langsdorf of the german cruiser Admiral Graf Spee wit a higher class of this award I assume
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maybe a pilot for the Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Achgelis_Fa_330
this would be the right job for such a glider pilot
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see this in the net, the man who post it calling this the medals of Ernst Udet being the property of a family friend in the united states. if so it was not the last medal bar of Udet because it miss the luftwaffe service medal. looks like his medals frozen in the year of the lord 1934 what I think is unlikely.
he wears also not a black wound badge of WW1, find only one pic were it seems to be ( the last one here). so I would say this is something build together to fool the common militaria collector who is not deep into medals. maybe the medal bar was real with the same combination like udet's own medal bar. I would say its not unique so a second man could have the same combination.
what do you think about it?
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great, have a special interest in man geting the french legion of honour and the iron cross, thats a combination you see very rare.
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yes, looks possible
the german wikipedia site have two possibilitys that going to both ends of the ranking list:
"The Military Medal (French: Médaille militaire) was established on 22 January 1852 by the President of the Second French Republic, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, and can be awarded to non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the armed forces who have distinguished themselves through courageous service or have been wounded in battle"
so an award for the common man but not for the officer corps but
"In special exceptional cases, the Military Medal may be awarded to marshals and commanding generals."
so if a french marshal wear it its probably one of the highest decorations at all
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Gentleman, see this pic of marshal petain in 1942 and it find my interest because of all the stuff he probably had he is wearing only one small medal here.
I have absolute no clue what it can be but think it would have been than a political statement. Can anyone identify this little thing? Sorry, don't become bigger or better in quality.
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for the untrained eye the silver oxide on the first 3 medals looks very natural. I don't know how they do it.
just touch the silver with the finger and than put it in a box for 6 month or work with some chemicals to get it quicker. suspect the aging on the ribbons is done with coffee or black tea. anyway it looks like it was there for decades.
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thank you for your warning
like most cases- if its looks to good to be true it is exactly this
do you think the Militär-Ehrenzeichen are original or fakes?
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gentleman
christmas is coming and so I think about a colonial medal bar because ... some of you have maybe seen this:
Its the most colonial medal bar possible, imho if you collect german colony's. Maybe not the only one but can't remeber to see a bar with 1. and 2. class together with EK 2 before.
Looks to my eyes very harmonius, aging and blur making sense if you look over the bar.
cost 700 euro, anyone would see a problems with this medalbar?
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Major Zimmer /Dresden
another pic with second class
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thanks
you don't find the KNIL mentioned very often in old german sources but it seems the main difference to the french foreign legion was you go there when you want to flee from something but you go to the KNIL for the excellent payment there.
I assume this man was a german NCO in 1897 and was seeing a chance for him and what he had learned in the KNIL. The foreign legion was allways described as having a german NCO corps, maybe similar in the east indies.
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Hello Herman
do you know this lot or is it only from "reading" the complete awards as a whole?
thank your for your input, I don't know anything about dutch awards but was thinking that serving for a time in the colony's would bring a special medal showing you were in overseas. maybe like the french Medaille d'Outre Mer.
looks like the netherlands were very cheap with such medals then.
I know that citizenship was different in 1914 from what it is today but was serving in the KNIL something that was bringing you rights? maybe like serving in the french foreign legion bring you the citicenship of france today?
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if he was a vet there had been at least a 70/71 medal on the bar. if he was born as a german and became a dutch citizen maybe by marriage I don't know if the army of the netherlands would have accept him as a NCO or officer so he could serve there for 24 years.
if he came to the netherlands as a mercenary for the royal netherlands east indies army, there were a lot of germans then, he would have medals on the bar showing service in east india.
connections between prussia and the netherlands were very close then, maybe he was a young officer in 1897 study on a war academy in germany?
edit: Komtur, your answer came when I was writing.
yes, makes sence, he was there as a young man in the staff of someone high ranking and got it simply by being there.
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see this https://militariaplaza.nl/holland-dutch-militaria/dutch-ww1-4-piece-medal-bar-detail
"This is a nice Dutch World War 1 Period 4-Piece Medal Bar, consisting of a Dutch Silver Medal in the Order of Orange-Nassau (Orde van Oranje-Nassau),a Long Service Medal for 24 years service and a Dutch Mobilization War Cross 1914-1918 and a German Prussian Centenarmedaille 1897 (officially called: 'Medaille zur Erinnerung an des Hochseligen Kaisers und Königs Wilhelm I., des Großen, Majestät'). All medals are in good used condition. The medals are nicely mounted on a medal-bar for wear on the 'walking-out' tunic. The medal-bar comes on its functional pin/catch set-up. It is very rare to find a combination of Dutch and German medals on one medal-bar. Making it even rarer, this medal-bar comes together with a period photo of the recipient wearing this exact medal-bar. Stunning and rare original set!"
anyone having an idea how a dutch was able to get the Centenarmedaille other than start as a german in 1897 and being a dutch citicen in 1914, maybe because of marry a dutch woman and live in netherlands than?
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an elderly couple in dagestan
one of the pics made by the russian photographer Sergei Produkin-Gorski between 1909 and 1915 in colour, anyone recognices the awards? first must be the st. george cross.
other pics from this series with russian awards
the emir of buk
hara
the khan of khwarzm
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Thank you for the correction and I believe now to read this also some years ago. Medal bars are not my real hobby, do it from time to time for do something different then usual, for have a break. I don't know if this was the real intention when they start with the double service award or if the first regulation was unprecise so everyone thought it was allowed. Then after some years - you know if it happen three times one after the other it becomes a rule - it became a fact and some official made this regulation out of the common fashion.
In any case it looks like this practise was used to make the medal bar fat - zum auffetten.
Otherwise if intendetd it would have been a present by the government for officier's - also to made the medal bar looking more fat.
Anyway, this double service award comes only into its own if you show a long time service over different times and under more than one flag.
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The ex DDR states Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen -Anhalt, Thüringen and Meckelenburg-Vorpommern will probably handle this all the same way and so far it would be legal to do it also in the rest of the country. Brandenburg had cast it into a regulation, other have maybe a similar one.
the most important part is this
"Fire brigade awards from the GDR era
During the times of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), various awards were also given specifically to members of the volunteer fire brigade and professional fire brigade. However, since the professional fire brigade of the GDR is not a municipal one, but belonged to the People's Police, it was also possible to award them with People's Police awards. Therefore, it is important to know that not all awards that were given to firefighters between 1949 and 1990 may be worn in uniform. Special medals and decorations with the national emblem of the GDR are no longer worn on the uniform. Listed below are the awards, which continue without hesitation can be worn on the uniform."
in fact it says that every award can be still worn. it says also its important to know that not all awards may be worn in uniform. first the uniform belongs the state so he decided what you wear on it but its only a " may", a word that have some freedom.
then the text becomes illogical because " Special medals and decorations with the national emblem of the GDR are no longer worn on the uniform. "
the national emblem is on all of them! but, the real firefighter awards are allow to wear and otherweise it would be a shame. the regulations to made a medal bar are the old one, war decorations, long service award, peace time award, foreign award. thank the lord we don't have war decorations so peace time awards, long service award, foreign awards. in this case a firefighter had some service in the DDR so I set the last DDR Service award he got and the current BRD service award in the sense it was made in the 1930s. the real meaning was not to wear two wehrmachts long service awards like here
this was a misuse of the regulations
even worse when they have the double wehrmacht award and then a third service award from before
the old army
or
police
sometimes they try to get three different into the bar like here old army, zivil servant, wehrmacht
here is the misuse obviously! the double service award was a favour given by the government to show breaks in service. in the end all former service awards counts for the last wehrmacht service award so there would be no necessity to wear them.
this bars are in the spirit of the double service award regulation
the DDR/BRD firefighter award I made is in this spirit. you can wear the DDR service award, in this case the 10 years but if you had the 20 years you would only wear this and not the 10 years also. and so you wear only the 40 years Brandenburg /BRD service award. btw, like the old bars the 10 DDR count on the 40 years Brandenburg so there would be no necessity but you have the rigth to wear it and so the double service award bar exist. if this firefighter had the DDR Award for merits in fire prevention, here on the typical russian style single bar
I had placed this for the Brandenburg 40 years award because it became a legit BRD/german award. if you compare this with the old bars best example would be the wehrmacht service award together with an austrian service award from soldiers coming from the austrian heer in 1938. you have seen such medal bars before, I don't find a pic just now to illustrate it.
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Some years ago I restore some 1864-1871 medal bars in the local church. What I have learned than came into use now for making a prussian medal bar for a firefighter.
The man had the 10 years DDR firefighter service award in 1989 then served for another 30 years in the BRD, to be more precise in the state of Brandenburg and got than the 40 years long service award.
To wear DDR Firefigther awards is permitted but not realy regulated - see her page 52 https://www.lfv-bb.de/s/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Handreichnung-fuer-Auszeichnungen-und-Ehrungen-der-Feuerwehrangehoerigen-im-Land-Brandenburg-V1.0.pdf
in the end there is no basic knowledge how to wear awards on a medall bar.
You see here how the new awards are designed https://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=orden+feuerwehr+brandenburg&_sacat=0
a short 20 mm wide ribbon on a safety pin - in one word - disgusting!
This medal bar is a classic case of two long servise awards showing the break in service because the state changed in between. I found 30 mm wide ribbon for the Brandenburg and 25 mm wide ribbon for the DDR award. Its far from perfect, not even good but I am still learning any time .
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Major Walter Klein, Ritterkreuz
in Germany: Third Reich: Wehrmacht Medals, Decorations & Awards
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a WW 1 Tyrol medall would be very likely