westfale

Hi!

Today I've got these interesting picture - thanks again, sascha! - of some highly decorated?wurttemberg and bavarian officers.

First I would like to show the whole interesting part of people and then a detailed scan of these who are the officers I would like to know, if possible. Remark the really amazing quality of the picture to show such an amount of details in relation to the distance and quality of camera/negative in this period of time which I would suggest between 1897 and 1914.

So my question again: could anyone of you help me to identify the man on the left and on the right side of the zoomed picture?

Thanks a lot!

westfale

Hi!

After receiving an ek2-doc of an sergeant of the "Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 31" I would like to ask for help, because I can't read the name: Does anyone of you could post me, who was in the rank of Oberst Commander of this unit in march 1916?

Thanks for help!

westfale

@Rick: I don't have any information about the award he got - but due to his profession (he was a printer (not the machine, the person ) ) I expect he got an Kronenorden 4th class...

Then the rearside:

Hi,

today, after viewing an interesting post in a german forum, I would like to show you an invitation from the "generalordenskomission" to recieve an award mid-january 1914. I have never seen such an document before - does anyone of you have also one of these, especially dated in the 20th century?

regards

westfale

1st the front side:

The Bavarian one is a little harder to find.... there's several others MUCH harder to find than this! The mecklenburg ones are almost impossible!

Hi!

I've got the chance to get one of these bars of mecklenburg, in this case the bar of mecklenburg-schwerin - so here is the picture, additional with a picture of an soldier wearing it.

Hope you like it, too!

regards

westfale

Hi,

here an example of the grand dutchy of baden.

Hope, you like it, too!

regards

westfale

And the award himself, given in a presentation-box with an half-miniature for civilians:

The rest of the set:

Hello!

After receiving the last missing documents I would like to show you an interesting set of the "Blockadebrecher-Abzeichen", the blockade-runner-badge.

August Ulrich, who got this award, was a steward travelling with a lot of ships over the atlantic ocean and the indian ocean during his time working at the "Norddeutscher Lloyd" in Bremen. He was born in march 1900, so he was in the age of 39 when he start again as steward at the ship "Bremen", the flagship of the LLoyd. His Captain was Adolph Ahrens, and during his time onboard they start a trip from Bremerhaven to New York.

On their way back to home WW2 starts, so Capt. Ahrens got a new destination: Murmansk. They arrived Murmansk on the 6th of september. As you can see on the 2nd document, the "Dienst-Zegnis" of his trip, signed by the A. Ahrens now with his new rank as Commodore, August Ulrich leave the "Bremen" in Murmansk at the 17th of september 1939 with most of the others, to go by train back at home.

In march 1942 August Ulrich got a letter to come to a naval office to receive the blockade-runner-badge (no. 6629), which is also written in his papers, both shown here, also with the award himself. The award was worn after the war, too - so it was denazfied. For his trip, the first blockade-runner-trip at ww2, he got also the war-merit-cross 2nd class without swords.

It was a normal duty, but one of the interesting trips during wourld war 2 - as said before: the first blockade-runner!

Hope you like it, too!

regards

westfale

Hi!

Yesterday the postman gave me this document I've bought a few days ago; it's the document for the "Treue Krieger"-cross from 1866 to whom who are combattants but not at k?niggr?tz or members of the main-army.

It's amazing to find such and old and not so often seen doc from this era!

Hope you enjoy it like me!

westfale

Hello!

Today I've got an Milit?rpa? of the "Gro?herzogl.-Mecklenburg. Feld-Artillerie Regiments Nr. 60". Does anyone of you have some info's about this unit and the way of it during ww1?

Additionally it's interesting that the holder was a hanseatic man from hamburg wearing the hanseatic cross but not the iron cross or the mecklenburg MVK...

Thanks a lot for your help!

westfale

...

After missing some new phto's here I will post some of mine...

Here three LS awards of the Landwehr; at first the enamel version of prussia, as second the same of baden and in the following post at least the 1913-medal of w?rttemberg.

reagards

westfale

According to Ricks info (quick as ever, thanks!) the number of produced LDAs are less than the number of people who got them??Is?this?correct?

Due to the hint of the "staatskalender" I will check to get some info reading one of it (never seen before)...

Here the best I can show of the man on the left side with his two ribbons; the words on the storefront seems to be french - the first one?looks?like "le"...

westfale

Here the best I can offer - the picture has no 100% sharpness

Hi,

It's not the Kaiser. It is possible for you to make a focus of the shoulderboard. With this we can see if it is the Oberst of the unit or a General.

Nice photo

Christophe

Ahhh - I was given it's the kaiser, but really, I'm missing his orders like the grand cross of the iron cross... so who was the commanding officer of the IR11 (I think the 11 stands for IR11)?

Picture will follow ASAP

Thanks for Info!

Hi,

today the postman brought me a nice piece:

Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Landwehr-Auszeichnung 2nd class, 1st type (till1913).?Because?I?haven't?seen?it?here,?some?pictures?for?all?of?you?which?are?interested.

Does anyone of you have some information about these bar, especially how many were given?

Regards

westfale

I would like to show you also a picture of an award-ceremony; seems to be the kaiser himself is giving iron crosses 2nd class...

...and, at least, a more personel view of the cross.

Hope you like it!

westfale

...next the cross himself...

To compare, here are some pictures of my cased cross:

First the case and the cross...

HI,

after a few month waiting for my chance I've got this nice EK2 at the non-combat ribbon and would like to show it to you - how many people got such an non-combat one made as "einzelbandspange" without any other award?

Hope you like it, too!

regards

westfale

And here a more detailed picture: