Solomon

Hello gents,

thanks to a hint from a collector-friend (thank you again), I was able to add this nice miniature-chain to my collection.
You see

- Prussia Iron cross 2^nd class 1914
- Prussia Red Eagle order 4^th class
- Prussia cross for war aid
- Lippe-Detmold house order 3^rd class (372 awards)
- Lippe-Detmold Leopold-order 2^nd model 3rd class without crown (only around 25 awards!!!)

This combination is pretty unique and according to the rolls, there is only one possible candidate
(already marked in the rolls with red eagle order, war-aid cross, house-order and Leopold-order):

Conrad Trauthan, Koeniglich Preussischer Gewerbeinspektor in Bielefeld, born in Culm, 22nd November 1865

He got the Leopold-order as No. 24 of the rolls on 1^st July 1907 and the house-order 3rd class as No. 409 on 7^th September 1912 (without getting the 4^th class before).

It would be interesting to know, if the referring medalbar still exists, as Trauthan was already marked in the rolls with the Prussian awards.

I hope you like these little fellows like I do.

Best regards

Roman

Indeed, while discussing with Andreas about Multhaup and crosschecking the award lists, only one possible candidate remained:

Georg Mönnig, Postverwalter in Schieder-Schwalenberg, born 19th August in 1855

He got:
- Silver and Golden merit cross of the house-order Lippe-Detmold
- merit cross Leopold-order Lippe-Detmold
- merit cross of the combatants.club Lippe-Detmold
- 1897 medal Lippe-Detmold
- 1905-cross Lippe-Detmold (In this list he was named as Georg Mönning, I checked my copies)

For sure he got also the war merit medal Lippe-Detmold after 1915.

And this medal in combination with my ribbon-bar and Andreas´ nice photo shows exactly, that the medalbar at the Thies auction cannot be from Multhaup.
Multhaup had already 1915 the cross of the Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen Prussia and a long service medal Prussia.The bar at Thies is after 1915 due to the war merit medal (awarded since 1915) and there is no reason, why the Prussian awards are missing, while Multhaup is wearing them at his ribbonbar.
In addition I was always wondering why the miniature chain was showing a war merit cross and not a war merit medal at the 1st position....now I know ;-)

Regards and special thanks to Andreas for the final clarification on Multhaup
Roman
 

One important remark and I'm sure Andreas will confirm this, too:

The medalbar sold via Thies is NOT the one from Multhaup, no matter if it declared as Multhaup's medalbar!!!

This medalbar belonged to somebody else.

Here you are...

-IC 2nd class
-long service award
- medal for South West Africa
-Lippe-Detmold order for art and science 2nd class with oakleaves (Lippische Rose)
-Lippe-Detmold house order
-Lippe-Detmold Leopold-order

Hehe, somehow yes...

By the way the document was signed by "Dr. Freiherr (Georg) von Eppstein", who was editior for the Ordens-Almanach in Berlin.
I have his ribbonbar in my collection :-)

Are you sure with the name von Koppenfels? I cannot find him in the award-lists...

Here is my latest purchase...quite famous name, he is Herrmann´s son...

Perfect explanation by Eric...I have only one important remark:

Not only the rolls until 1918 are still existing in the arcives, but also the rolls after 1918. Lippe-Detmold awarded certain orders until 1933, partly even later.

And that's the reason, why for me it is 100 % sure, that these pinback crosses were never officially awarded.

By the way, the statutes of the war merit cross and for the cross for heroic deeds are printed on the back of each award document and were never changed.

There is only one exception, as the statues describe the crosses as gilden crosses, for which only Bronce should be used.

But in 1918 around 80 crosses were delivered in zinc...very rare crosses, officially awarded but not correct, if you follow strictly the statues.

I only know my own cross so far, if you find another one...keep it in any circumstances.

Hi Eric,

as you are quoting my website, I´m really curious to see photos people wearing this type of cross.
According to the rolls it was never forseen to issue such a cross (might be called 1st class of the war merit cross Lippe-Detmold).

It was not realized until 11th November 1918, when prince Leopold IV. had to resign.

For me personally these pin-crosses are samples, created in case a 1st class would have been issued.
I had the cross shown on my website personally in my hands and spent a lot of time to compare it with the normal war merit cross and the cross for heroic deeds. I agree that your cross is a pre-1945 piece.

So if you have a photo, documents etc please show us :-)

Regards
Roman

I rather prefer a Gendarm Friedrich Koch....but that name makes it impossible to trace the IC 1870, as there are several Friedrich Koch listed.

The SVK and 1897 medal match already.

Very nice bar

Do you also have a name?

I know these screwback-variants, I have a similar one in my collection...but these variants are not the official awarded ones, but private purchases.

On 29.3.2016 at 16:44, Stogieman said:

Very nice to see a group that has not been broken up, especially with these very rare documents.

You are unfortunately only partly right.

This group came via a dealer for antiques directly from the family. The dealer knew that beside the documents also Kellner II´s uniform, cased epaulettes (!) and saber were still existing.
When the old lady (granddaughter of Kellner II) passed away, the equipment was immediately sold and only the documents "survived" as a group.

So the uniform and epaulettes (also extremely rare, because only worn in that way until 1867) are still somewhere around.
I´m pretty sure, that the epaulettes (cased) were sold by Weitze a few years ago.

Greetings
Roman
 

Here are pictures from my original ones. C.F. Zimmermann was the only official supplier of these crosses.
The first shown cross from bryansk1959 is known copy, often appearing on Ebay...

Greetings

Roman
 

Yes, unfortunately it wasn´t my observation, but another collector gave me this hint, when I showed the photo.
I was much more focussed on the Lippe documents, when I bought all the paper and didn´t recognize the speciality about the the crown order.

By the way another collector shared the number of awards:
211 crown order 3rd class with swords were awarded for 1866.
This figure includes also the ones for foreigners, which was logically much lower!

No, not really.

Until 1867 Lippe-Detmold had his own independant "army", the last leader was Kellner II. It was a bataillon with around 400 soldiers and officers. It was trained and paid by the principal.

Kellner II negotiated with Prussian in these soldiers were integrated in the Prussian army ( 6. Westfälisches Infanterie-Regiment No.55 ).

So in 1870 / 71 the Lippe soldiers were ruled by the Prussians (and were awarded with Prussian orders like the long service awards). That makes for example this long service cross Lippe-Detmold (officially awarded only until 1867) extremely rare.

Until 1867 these Lippe soldiers were officially "foreigners" for the Prussians, e.g. like the Bavarians.

The picture was taken between September 1866 and December 1869, most probably between 1866 and 1867.

On the medalbar you can see:

- Prussian order of the crown 3rd class with swords

But….what the hell is wrong here??? Is it a wearing mistake, as the order should be worn normally at the black-white combatant ribbon ???

No…everything is correct here…Kellner II wears the order at the light blue ribbon for foreigners! In 1866 (before the Lippe-Detmold army was integrated into the Prussian army) he was a foreigner to Prussia.

- military merit medal Lippe-Detmold (awarded on  30th March 1863)
Unfortunately this document is missing in the group…
- long service cross for 25 years Lippe-Detmold
- campaign-medal 1866 Lippe-Detmold
Unfortunately this document is also missing in the group…
The intersting point here is, that commander Kellner II awarded his soldiers with the campaign medal, while he and the other officers got it directly from prince Lippe-Detmold.

Picture 11a shows Major Kellner II

Kellner II retired on 23rd December 1867. He was the one, negotiating with the Prussian about the integration of the small army of Lippe-Detmold into the Prussian army.
He was also allowed to wear his uniform after his retirement.

Document 12: Retirement

On 5th November 1869 Kellner II awarded as Major a.D. the common house-order Lippe-Detmold & Schaumburg-Lippe 1st class (with the crown).
He was No. 13 of the list out of 64 awards in total.

Document  13: Award document for the common house order 1st class Detmold & Schaumburg

Document 13a Consigment of the documents

Document 14 a and b = statutes of the common house-order, version from 25th October 1869.

In this document group there are also a lot of letters to his parents, exercises he had to do during his time as a student and the application for becoming a student, written by his father in 1842 in several versions.
There are also a lot of letters of relatives etc…too much to show and less interesting.

I hope you liked this deep look into the military history of the small principal Lippe-Detmold until 1867.

Best regards
Roman

Hi gents,

inspired by the medalbar with 1866 campaign medal Lippe-Detmold, I just showed, I would like to share with you a extremely rare document-group I recently added to my collection:

Hermann Kellner was born in Detmold on 23rd May 1823 as the 2nd son of Amtaccessor Karl Friedrich Kellner.

Document 1 “birth document”

On 26th April 1842 he became a student („Volontär“) at the Divisionsschule in Münster/Westfalia.
His classmates were Eduard Pustkuchen (his uniform is shown in the museum of local history in Detmold) and Carl Großkopf (later commander of Torgau).

Document 2 letter of acceptance at the school and an introduction of his duties (and rights).

On 10th December he was promoted from a Volontär to Portepee-Fähnrich.

„Serenissimus haben höchstgnädigst geruht, in Hinsicht der eingegangenen guten Zeugnisse, den bisherigen Volontair Hermann Kellner zum Portepeefähnrich zu ernennen,
worüber demselben die erforderliche Urkunde von mir übersandt werden wird….“

Kellner II served as Lippischer Füsilier, the only bataillon of Lippe-Detmold and ruled by the prince of Lippe-Detmold.
The Lippische Füsiliere („Das lippische Kontingent“) was already fighting against Napoleon together with the Prussians.

Document 3 Promotion

Prince Leopold promoted Herrmann Kellner II on 15th October 1844 to „Seconde-Lieutnant.

„ Wir (Leopold) urkunden hiermit, daß Wir den Portepeefähnrich Hermann Kellner zum Seconde-Lieutnant in unserem Militair-Corps gnädigst ernannt haben.
Wir erwarten von Ihm Treue gegen uns, Gehorsam gegen seinen Vorgesetzen, strenge Befolgung der Gesetze im Allgemeinen, insbesondere den bestehenden und
künftigen Militair-Verordnungen im Dienst-Reglement, Ordnung, Fleiß ….“


Document 4 Promotion to Seconde-Lieutnant

Document 4a Congratulation for becoming Seconde-Lieutnant

Picture 4b Drawing showing him in the uniform as Seconde-Lieutnant

On 27th February 1849 Kellner II was promoted by prince Leopold to a Premier-Lieutnant.
Document 5 Promotion to Premier-Lieutnant

Document 6 a and b letters from the frontline (war against the Danish) , sent on 10th July 1849 to his brother Karl

And finally on 10th May 1859 Kellner II was promoted to a Hauptmann and Kompanie-Chef (chief of the company).

Document 7 Promotion to Hauptmann

Document 7a Information of the Fürstlich Lippischen Militair-Kolloquium , that his salary will be adjusted according to his promotion.

On 7th  December 1861 prince Leopold agreed tot he marriage of Kellner II with Marie Niemeyer.
Document 8 Agreement

Picture 8a with his wife and son
Kellner is wearing the uniform as Premier-Lieutnant.
The picture was taken between  middle of 1862 and March 1863.

On 19th April 1866 Kellner II awarded the long servce cross for 25 years Lippe-Detmold.
Original text oft he document:
Nachdem Sie unter Berücksichtigung das als Kriegsjahr doppelt zu rechnende Jahr 1849 nunmehr 25 Jahre in
Meinem Militär-Corps treu gedient haben, habe ich Ihnen Mein Dienstauszeichnungskreuz verliehen.
Dasselbe erfolgt nebst dem dazu gehörigen Bande hierfür.
Detmold, den 19. April 1866
Leopold, PFEL.

…As war-service in the year 1849 has to be counted double, you served now 25 years in my Militär-Corps and therefor I award you with my long service cross and the referring ribbon.

Kellner was one of only 16 (!!!) officers, awarded with this long service cross for 25 years, which was donated on 11^th June 1859 by prince Leopold.

After the integration of the Lippsche Füsiliere into the Prussian army in 1867, only one additional cross was awarded.
All other awarded the Prussian version.

Document 9 Award document for the long-service cross 25 years Lippe-Detmold

On 15th August 1866  Leopold promoted Kellner II to a Major and commander of Lippe-Detmold´s small army.
His predessor was Major and commander Carl Rohdewald, who was killed in the battle at Kissingen on 10th July 1866.

Document 10 Promotion to Major and commander

On 20th September 1866 Kellner II awarded as  „Führer des Fürstlich Lippischen Füssilierbataillons" (leader of the bataillon of the Lippischen Füsiliere) the Prussian order of the crown  3^rd class with swords .

Document 11 Award document

Hello Gerd,

sorry, only two out of four awards were correctly named...the 1866 medal and the Military Merit Medal.
Especially the first one with swords is unique...if I would have shown the award document for it, you still would be confused ;-)
The first one is from Prussia, the the other unknown one is a extremly rare one from Lippe-Detmold.
Just keep in mind that all of his awards were awarded before 1867 ;-)

I will show all documents of Major Kellner II in a seperate topic, because it is worth to go more in details.

Regards
Roman
 

Hi gents,

I think it´s time to post again some rare Lippe-Detmold stuff...

Here is a new item in my collection., it´s are rare medalbar from Lippe-Demold, showing

- medal for the campaign 1866 Lippe-Detmold (awarded 988 times, mostly by members of the "Lippisches Füsilier-Bataillon"
- Prussian medal for 1866 "Königgrätz"
- Centenarmedal Prussia

For me it´s the first time to see this medal on a medalbar, I have only some pictures of it (and a single medal, which perfectly fit on this bar).

And here are the mentioned pictures:

The first one shows the Major and commander of the "Füsiliere Lippe-Detmold" Herrmann Kellner II.
I have all of his documents, which I will show later on.
He awarded "his" soldiers with this medal, officers like him got the medal directly from the prince Leopold Lippe-Detmold.

The second one shows a unknown officer.

I hope you like it :-)

Best regards
Roman

Hard to say, I only know the number of awards for the Detmold-cross.

​Correct, no rolls for this cross...the same for the Lippe-Detmold war merit cross.

Ok, it seems to be too complicated...I will solve:

Kellner II received the order of the crown 3rd class with swords on 20th September 1866.
The award document doesn´t state something special, but in connection with the photo of his medalbar,
this award becomes very special and extremly rare.
Kellner II received the Prussian order of the crown at the blue ribbon for foreigners and not at the black-white striped Prussian war-ribbon.
And this is consequently correct, because in 1866 Kellner was from the Prussian point of view still a foreigner, until the Lippe-Detmold army was
integrated in October 1867 into the Prussian army :-)

Best regards

Roman
 

​Indeed, but I picked it up direct from the family. Unfortunately this photo is just borrowed and I have to return it next week.

But there is still a quite realistic chance, that the award documents will appear and I´m allowed to buy it, too :-)

There is a small, but interesting detail on this 3.class piece:

For sure this award was made by Carl, Büsch, Hannover, who produced almost all early golden pieces.
Normally the medaillons are fixed with one diagonal rounded pin (I can compare with a early 4th class and 2nd class in my collection).
But this pieces has four squared "pins" between the arms of the cross (see photo).
I assume that this piece was returned and again awarded (maybe Büsch changed also the medaillon on the back from "LA" to "L") and
that this piece was a former award with swords!

It is just a theory, but I haven´t ever seen this mounting before...

Regards
Roman
 

Hi gents,

it took me some time, but today I was able to add this little fellow to my collection:

The medalbar belongs to Johann Friedrich Lappe, born in Mettmann on 31st May 1845, died in Halle on 19th December 1928 .

Friedrich Lappe was pastor and superindentant in Bielefeld and also pastor of the ruling family in Lippe-Detmold.
In Bielefeld he planned the Johannis-church, in Detmold he held the funeral oration of princess Pauline.

On the medalbar you see:

- red eagle order 4th class (unmarked)
- war aid cross Prussia
- Lippe-Detmold house order 3rd class in gold ( Lappe got the award on 30th May 1909 as No. 380 of the list. (In total it was awarded 372 times.)
- Lippe-Detmold Grafregenten Ernst medal 1897 (not in the award list, but listed in the Ordensalmanach 1908)
- Lippe-Detmold Lawsuit-medal 1905 ( No. 97 of the list, 176 awards in total)

Lappe also got the 4th class of the Lippe-Detmold houseorder Div. A on 13rd January 1898, but he had to return it after awarding the 3rd class.

The photo shows  Friedrich Lappe in 1900 (according to the notes on the back).