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Heinrich LXXXIV or Heinrich MCXVIII?

Sorry Andreas, I couldn't pass this one up.

Wild Card

Thanks for the pics!

The GenHonDec had not occurred to me, but that might be. I have (carefully!) tried to push the backing away a little (which also reveals the stripes on the Hungarian ribbon): #4 seems to have been white in the center, not blue. Also, #5 and #6 seem to have different center stripes, even under the backing: #5 purple and #6 light red, as Rick says. Maybe there was some weird Mecklenburg award with a light red center stripe?

If #4 is the GenHonDec, I would say Zahlmeister.

About the Mecklenburg LS: were they awarded until after 1918? And only to the Mecklenburg regiments?

The navy ranklists list under "Danish awards" a "Golden Medal" and a "Silver Medal". The army ranklists show no such thing. Would that be your "Medals of Merit"?

Thanks, I didn't think of a Danish medal. I am still trying to find out what type of guy this is. Maybe not an officer, but a senior NCO with a Mecklenburg XII or XV? It should have at least been some rear area guy (Zahlmeister?), with the War Aid Cross. Or a reserve officer from the Mecklenburg Landwehr?

The backing is black, not navy blue.

It is difficult to make a good scan of the back, because the bar is curved. But I think this is a Godet catch.

Gentlemen,

I have a new ribbon bar from a Mecklenburger. The ribbons are quite faded, but three Mecklenburg awards are recognizable. I am not sure what these are:

1) EK2 1914

2) Mecklenburg (Schwerin?) Comb War Merit Cross

3) Bavarian, but Cross or Order?

4) Looks like Hessen

5) Mecklenburg Long Service?

6) something else from Mecklenburg?

7) War Aid Cross

8) Hindenburg X

9) Austrian Commem

10) Hungarian Commem

11) Italian Crown Order (?)

Any ideas on this one, maybe from one of the Mecklenburg experts?

Chris

Good luck with this project, I know it is a hard one!

I haven't been able to find his Dr. iur. date. Even tried different spellings of "Berends".

Chris

I'm not yet decided on this one, but the seller, our old 'friend' thor_1918, is often questionable!

Hello Chris,

Thank you very much, could you referr me the source where you have found this information?

Do you have a clue at wich university he was to find during the interbellum as well as during WWII?

Cordial greetings + thank you,

You find this information in several German university library catalogs, for example the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.

About his "Professor" title: As I find no further publications of his, I would most definitely think that he was not a university professor, but a senior teacher at some Gymnasium ("Gymnasialprofessor").

Regards

Chris

I must have overlooked this. Oskar Morath got a Dr. in geology from the University of Freiburg in 1913 (there is a small chance that it might have been in 1914, but I could not determine this 100%). The title of his dissertation was "Theoretische Grundlagen für die Konstruktion geologischer Modelle".

Chris

Closeup:

Reverse:

Gentlemen,

I just got this Red Cross medal and wanted to make 100% sure it is kosher:

I don't see how this combination of two DAs from different states and from different times should be possible.

Chris

Look what I got from evilbay. Anybody want this?

Rick Research said:

No, it will turn up sometime. I just have SO MUCH TO DO with the award rolls-- spending 40 hours a week on those does not leave me the spare 6 hours or so that every such ribbon or medal bar used to.

maybe in 2008....

Here is my list of suspects with BMJ, BMV4mKr and HHOX and no other awards in RH ranklists. I have eliminated those who were KIA, though that might be too strict. I don't have the last Bavarian ranklists, so maybe someone else could narrow the list a bit more down.

Ernst Brunner

August Döderlein

Karl Düwell

Wilhelm Eitzenberger

Hermann Giehrl

Emerich Freiherr v. Godin

Friedrich Kraußer

Wilhelm Reitzenstein

Johann/Hans Seißer

Gottfried Graf v. Tattenbach

Friedrich Tumma

Friedrich v. Weech

Looks good! Thanks for posting!

Reverse:

Plain and simple: A 1914 volunteer who got the SMMM as an Unteroffizier/Fahnenjunker and the Friedrich Knight as Leutnant.

The back:

Any ideas what award this single pre-1914 medal/ribbon bar might have been for? Brunswick?

Chris

hello Gentlemen,

I found a bavarian ribbon bar.

Perhaps it is interesting enough to be shown here.

Greetings

Uwe (Bretzen)

Definitely interesting with the 40yr oakleaves! Only a couple of them around, thanks for showing!

I haven't been able to find this guy, though. He's got the Austrian ribbon without a device, so if that is not an error, he would have still been at NCO-level for at least the first part of WW1. Maybe this is a Zahlmeister type, who nevertheless got the BMV4X on the usual war ribbon.

Huesken once had this for sale:

And a closeup of the miniature. It is quite detailed, for its size:

Tab back with broken needle.