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This is the first (Federal) German decoration for bravery since 1945: The new "Ehrenkreuz der Bundeswehr f?r Tapferkeit", introduced on 10th October 2008 (not yet awarded). I just got the ribbon bar for it:

Great job, Claudio! I know those reunifications are painful!

Not mine, no. No need to look for ages, thanks.

Here's a pre-WW2 picture of a Luftwaffe Oberstleutnant with HHOX and what appears to be a L?beck. I guess this is a future General:

#7: a Long Service decoration, most probably Treudienst. #10: RAO4 #11: W?rttemberg LD1 #12: some (Jubilee?) medal, the last one on his medal bar Regards Chris

Nice to see the face that goes with the bar!

Truly amazing work again, Rick!

Wow! I have never seen this oakleaves device before, I didn't even know it exists. What a find! Not totally sure about the one in post #56, there are fakes that look like that. Regards Chris

Very interesting! I have never seen this one before. V.B.F. e.V. could be "Verband bayerischer Feuersch?tzen" - a shooting organisation.

This guy IS clever - using all sorts of old parts. But 1) the Austrian DA is insanely rare on medal bars like this and 2) - I repeat myself - "in this company I really wouldn't touch with a flagpole"...

very good and important work!!

And the back:

Just got this tinnie - no idea if it is rare: A commemorative tinnie for the 45th anniversary of the 1866 Battle of Langensalza - obviously from the Hanoverian side, showing Georg V of Hannover and his son Ernst August of Cumberland.

Ohhh yes, inventing an abbreviation for one single holder - in order to do it properly! Btw Rick - a small world yes yes - if you look one up from Hagenow on that scan ---- that is the future GenLt Georg Frhr. v. Rechenberg, the father of your Baron Tammy!

Of course not a secret to well-kept German ranklists! 1878 and 1879: RM v. Hagenow, HusR14, EK1, BMV3b, MMV2, HSH3bX 1880: added a Johanniter, BL3 and JK5 1881: dto 1882: Hptm iG, GS 30. Div, added RW4 (Russian Wladimir) 1883: added RAO4 1884: still Hptm iG, GS KavDiv XV. Armee-Corps, added: BMV3a, TM3 AND added - in 1884 - GKM ---> reads as [sic]: "Gro?britannische Kriegsmedaille f?r den Feldzug in Egypten 1882"

Great bars and pictures, thanks! Yes - those are rare.

The more I look at this bar, the more spectacular I find it: How many non-German ribbon bars (discounting Austrian) with the 1939 Iron Cross have we got? I think I've seen maybe one or two Spanish ones from Blue Division members. Please show some examples if you got pictures or bars themselves!

Glenn, yes, I understand A1 as containing 1) ALL Generals 2) ALL General Staff Officers 3) all flying/parachute officers who had a certificate as pilot/observer/radio operator/parachutist AND were receiving flight pay ("Fliegerzulage"). Concerning A2, yes it should list all other active ones --- except that there is mention here of a DAL A3. This one is not specified further here - no idea who would be in there. Regards Chris

well, what this shows is --- we shouldn't place too much emphasis on the ORDER of awards...

No, there aren't any special administrative ranks anymore. Chris

Back: They are all offered for 95 euros. And this is not our recent Austrian guy: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23142

Another one:

Back:

I don't think I have seen his style before. His trademarks seem to be too long bars, wrong catch, combination issues of course. BTW, he does not guarantee authenticity of the bars themselves, just of the devices and ribbons...

Seems I missed this thread. Yes, this is char. General der Infanterie Erich W?llwarth (1872-1951). He is wearing only his wartime awards, so the WF3a (a peacetime award WITHOUT swords!) is left out, as well as his BO3 and RAO4. The Reichswehr 1924 ranklist shows only a BMV3X, but the award lists confirm: BVM3XmKr on 11.6.1917 as KW Oberstlt and Chief of General Staff. 1929 aD as char General d Inf, BUT reactivated in 1939. 1940 Gen d Inf zV, Kommandierender General Stellv. GK IV. AK and Befehlshaber WK IV 1942 aD And even got the DKiS on 12.6.1943 - at 71! I also found out he survived the Bombing of Dresden and fled to his native W?rttemberg, saving only what he could carry. He then had to live on social welfare (72 DM monthly), from 1949 on he got a tiny pension of 160 DM. He was running low on wood, coal and potatoes during the winter. And he was an anti-Nazi, strictly opposed to radical ideas propagated by people like Remer after the war. A wonderful photo, Christophe!