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EK2 of Leutnant d.L. Ludwig Weszkalnies:

Oh no is all I can say. This ribbon bar lot is a particular crime - I already thought that.

Yes, definitely Franz von Papen.

No idea. Zeige does not show more.

And finally the Simon Petlyura thing. Heiko, that belongs on your bar!!! BTW, whoever fiddled with the bar and removed the Simon Petlyura also switched the places of the Tirol and Austrian commemorative medals.

Here is the 1957 St. Nikolaus doc. He must have been still riding high post-WW2, not uncommon for an attorney.

According to the documents, he was born in Berlin. There was a publishing house Sayffaerth in Berlin at that time, maybe he was connected to that. He was Lt dR still in 1920. The 1932 exile-Ukraine doc and the 1957 (!) doc show him as Major. Obviously dR, since he was a state attorney. But he must have been high up in some organisation - maybe SA? Here is the Tamara doc scan from Zeige:

THAT is the Cross of "Simon Petlyura", awarded to "Major Sayffaerth" by the (exiled) Ukrainian government in 1932. How do I know that? The thing is being sold by Zeige, along with a Russian St. Nikolaus exile order, awarded in 1957 to Major Sayffaerth, ------ and his Tamara (with document)!

I can confirm his name: DR. Gerhard Wolfgang SAYFFAERTH got a doctorate in law from the University of Cologne on 28.11.1924. His dissertation was about "Das Risiko im Arbeitsverhältnis unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der neueren Rechtsprechung und des Arbeitsvertragsgesetzentwurfes".

I only know that he was a Lt (probably dR) in WW1, and Freikorps fighter. Later a state attorney, but he must have done more. Heiko, do you know anything else?

Incredible group! And we would never have found him, without documentation! He's even got the St. Tammy - don't they all have to be delivered to Rick?? So the middle ribbon bar was his first one, pre-WW2. Then he must have worn the top one - a 26 place bar!! Here the last two ribbons (??? and Portuguese Red Cross) look improvised, apparently they didn't have these in stock. And is that an Ostvolk in #13? Not too common either. Now the third bar was, I guess, his last one - after Bulgaria and Finland changed sides! He even dropped Turkey, who became an enemy during the last days of the war. Fantastic!

I have finally been able to scan the entire photo. Now the Zvonimir can be seen clearly. However, I got the name incorrect, it is Egon BÖNNER (1901-1981). He was chief of the military administration in Serbia in 1941, which was apparently a General-equivalent rank.

Thanks, I mixed things up. I had the new NCO awards in mind, given out from 1879-1886. They indeed switched to the Prussian DAs after that. My thoughts exactly, but the bar looks quite good. So maybe he thought "crosses first, medals last"? And Brunswick precedence WITHIN these categories? A Brunswick General? There cannot have been many with a Brunswick DA. But I think he would have had at least a PKO3, wouldn't he?

Great bar! How many Brunswick Lifesaving Medals are out there? Anyone have an example on a bar? I'm not too familiar with the Brunswick LS awards. They were given out only for a very short time in the 1880s, right? So this would be a long-serving NCO, who ultimately got a PKO4, after his retirement? (And died before 1897.) Probably not an officer, as he would have had at least a RAO4, after 25 yrs of service. BTW, why no pure Brunswick precedence? Why the lifesaving medal at #5?

I am not convinced this is a Navy guy, with this backing. The combination seems to suggest Navy, but it might also be an Army, General staff type. IF he was Navy: There are only 18 Navy holders of the Zähringen 1st cl listed. Of these, the only possibility is Gustav von Stosch, entered Navy in 1894, discharged as char. Kap. zS in 1920. The awards seem to match: In 1918, he holds the EK1, RAO4, HHOX, L?beck and Oldenburg. So only Hamburg and TWM are missing. HOWEVER: He is listed in the DOA 1908/09 with only RAO4 and Centenary... BUT NO China medal! So I believe it is not him. I think we have to turn to Army.

Paul Ochs is listed in the DOA 1908/09 as Baurat and Kreisbauinspektor in Quedlinburg. At that time, he only held the RAO4.

He is not listed in the DOA, sorry.

Ah yes, I forgot about that. So maybe the first bar was just an error, though it's hard to imagine Sedlatzek making such a mistake.

Nice! Have you got any names? Maybe he could be looked up in the DOA 1908/09.

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Gentlemen, I recently got this set of ?political? ribbon bars to the same person, an NSDAP functionary and ex-WW1 fighter (probably as a plain Gefreiter). It?s nice to see the progression: Between the first and the second bar, the wearer had realised that Austria now belonged to the Reich, and therefore shifted the Austrian Commemorative to its proper place. Most probably this happened around 1939, so the wearer had already got this NSDAP 10 by them and must have been an old fighter. The third, wartime bar adds just a KVK2. Also, the bars have three different backings: Green with Sedlatzek tag, dark blue and apparently a grey-ish one (some threads left). Any other ideas about these bars?

Problem is, he would not show up in the usual military rolls. Maybe a Bavarian Staatshandbuch, but I don't know about these. The only chance I see at the moment is - - looking through 1700+ pages in the DOA 1908/09.

Great lapel bow. I would say definitely a civilian, Major-equivalent. Hessian Philipp, probably White Falcon, Ernestiner, Prussian Crown Order. No RAO4.

What a great bar! Congratulations!

The Marianerkreuz was - as I recall - only given to members of the nobility with some kind of medical connection. This must be quite a high non-military Bavarian functionary. Probably not traceable in the usual military sources however.