webr55

Here's what the award looks like. Basically just the old Honor Cross with an oakleaves device.

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!

That's his Silesian Eagle 2 ribbon.

Familiar face... a General, I think you're right, just can't FIND him right away.

Is it yours? I note the eCrap Spot and don't want to lose time on something just Out There Somewhere--and don't want to post free ID for whoever owbs it if NOT here at GMIC.

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 one is interesting.

It shows regulations/precedence sophistication not often found in make-a-quick-euro ripoff specialists.

Are we certain it's a bad one?

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!

Chris,

looking again at the introduction to DAL A1. If I understand it correctly then those listed were those Generals, General Staff Officers and flying/parachute officers who were holders of an aircrew certificate and flight pay. That being the case I think DAL A2 contains all other active officers?

Regards

Glenn

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...

Paul..A question for all..does the Bundeswehr have a beamte class to day and what is their insignia like? John

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...