Daniel Krause

No, Your Ribbon is that from the Karl Troop Cross. Correct ribbon is

Hi friends, some words from me according the rolls. Paul is asking how it will look like. The ?Roth style? was date, name, firs name (if available in the original roll), Rank, unit (if available in the original roll). The new ?Rick and Daniel style? will be Name, first name, rank, unit, date, remarks like later promotion to General rank or remarks to other awards, birth and death year. A word about the time. Roughly I need some seconds to transcribe an award entry and additional 10 minutes for the added thing which are NOT in the roll. W?rttemberg will have around 23.000 name entries, so count around 3.800 hours! W?rttemberg: I did the MVO and Crown Order with swords, Frederick with swords, golden military merit medal, Merit cross with swords, Wilhelmscross with swords. Big help came from Uwe Bretzendorfer and Werner Nickel. Whats new, I noted everything according the insane W?rttemberg return policy. And I did non-W?rttemberg awards given to Members of the W?rttemberg Army in WW1. Ernestinian duchies: As Rick already noted, we combine all 3 in one volume. Altenburg ? done by the late Erhard Roth, is re-done and improved by me, Coburg and Gotha is done ? more or less Meiningen is done ? more or less. In the next weeks I plan to go to all Ernestinian archives to see if anything else survived. Weimar: I?m expecting 2 last copies from the archives and we will be ready. I will not speculate now for future plans like a re-done Royal Hohenzollern roll or a re-done Saxon roll before we finish the actual projects. Reu? and Schwarzburg rolls are there in the archives. I will go there next weeks to see?? Best regards Daniel

Hi Chris, I would guess Adolf Frhr.v.B?low, born 1870, died 1944, 1914 Major in IR 31, retired as LtCol from IR 159. Other awards: Red Eagle 4, Saxon Albert knight 2nd class, Weimar falcon knight 1st class where he got the swords to the cross as only other WW1 award I know at the moment. Best regards Daniel

great info!!!!! many thanks!!! So, if anybody else will assist, let me know. Otherwise I plan anyway a tour to Thuringia next months for another "inspection" at Meiningen, and Gotha. I know already that also th Schwarzburg rolls are still around. Best regards Daniel

Hi David, A closeup of the medal bar and the 2nd pic You mentioned would be helpful. I can say he got HOH3X, SA3aX and BZ3aX from the existing rolls. KO4, Joh, Cent, REKj3, SLH4 he had peacetime. Best regards Daniel

Here Bismarck full list of awards in "Ranklist speech": SAOBr, plmE, plm KuW, WO, RAOGKEKrSzX, RAOGKEBr, HOH1aBr, HOH3X, EK1 70, RM, Joh, LD1, 66K, 64, AB1, BTBrmK, BHBr, BrHGK, HG1, HL1, HP1X, HgL, MK1b, OV1XKr, SRKBr, GSF1Br, EH1mK, WK1Br, BL1X, DD1, FE1, GE1, JC, JAn, LEK1, SM1, NL1, USt1Br, ?EK1, PCBr, PAPBr, PL1, PT1, RumSt1, RAdBr, SSer, SWA1, SE1, SGV, TNIBr, TO1Br, TunHO, ZSt1 Best regards Daniel

Forgot to mention, Ludwig died 1946, Eugen died 1921. Best regards Daniel

Thanks Glenn, thats it!!! see You soon, Daniel

Hi Dave, please eMail me for a pic. I got a very nicht one from the family. I cant add pics....Computer does not want. Best regards Daniel

nice find!!! It looks pretty good for a second row of 2. 1st and missing row has probably the WW1 GERMAN awards. Best regards Daniel

super bar!!! I?m sure Ive seen HIM already. If I remember corretly THIS guy was published in an older German OMM Magazine an dHE was a Russian Artist. Wearing other stuff around the neck and some stars. I will look at the wekend if I find it again. Best regards Daniel

to clear it a bit more, the TIME regulations for the Ehrenzeichen der Bundeswehr are the minimum time a soldier has to serve before he can get the fitting class of the award. Exeptions are just done in rare cases. I received my Bronze Cross as Feldwebel in 1997 after the flood at the river Oder. I just served 5 years and some months as I got it. If I would be "in" a year shorter I would have gotten the Medal. There is NO automatism to get one award like this. In the Bundeswehr You can a lot of the older NCO?s and staff officers with a Gold Cross, but the lower classes are more rare. For Foreigners it is a bit more compliated, as their rank plays also a role adn the time limit does not count. Generals receive the Gold Cross Staff Officers the Silver Cross Field Grade Officers and highest ranking NCO?s the Bronze Cross Enlisted men and junior NCO?s the Medal. Actually in service abroad a few selected members of allied forces can get the "Einsatzmedaille der Bundeswehr" (Bundeswehr service medal) for merits WITHthe German Troops. That a foreign soldier received a class of the Ehrenzeichen der Bundeswehr is indeed a rare case and although it is the lowest class it is still a high award. Best regards Daniel

...and to feed You a bit more.... Here are the award numbers actual known today. Still not completely done. I counted the awards mentioned in the FIVE DIFFERENT ROLLS for THREE states, took the sum, but what is most interesting is the last column. It shows the awarded pieces. Number is of course much smaller because of all that combined awards. Best regards Daniel

That bar drived me crazy since years. That it appeared now at ebay is amazing. Original or not I cannot say without a in-hand inspection. IF ORIGINAL - You have a Prussian GENERAL there. 1870 service EK, XXV, 1870 medal, SWA most likely steel, Centenary, Baden BZ3bXE also from 1870 and nothing else because everything else was around the neck or on a sash. Best regards Daniel

This bar appeared before, ID?d by me and I also had additional info about Graf Holnstein. Bob, is it Yours now?? Best regards Daniel

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a small beamten bar: Best regards Daniel

an odd non-com one, using 25 mm and 16 mm ribbons: Best regards Daniel

another one, LtCol a.D. Georg Freiherr Harsdorf von Enderndorf: Best regards Daniel

another one, Bavarian red cross guy: Best regards Daniel

ok...lets continue a bit: here an early M 1915 one, sill un-ID?d Best regards Daniel

ahemmmm.... there were 3 "Uhlenh?ute" in the Prussian army.... - our one here, Major IR 96, LtCol a.D. IR 373 which was NOT (sorry Rick) Kurt, - then a Uhlenhaut, H. from FR 80 and - KURT from IR 22, captain in 1914, retired as LtCol from the same regiment Best regards Daniel

here You are: ...and show us the pic!!! Best regards Daniel

F?rstenAU is the name. If we are speaking about the same, I?ve seen a portrait of him too. Very nice thing. If You are the buyer, let me know and You will get additional info from my "Saxon secret Wonder Weapon". Best regards Daniel

That CANNOT be the bar of Schulze-Dewitz. He also had a Milit?rehrenzeichen 1st and 2nd class. Schulze-Dewitz medal bar was posted a while ago in a German Militaria Magazine. Best regards Daniel