7 Place Bar with Portegese decoration

[Paul C]

I have had this bar for almost 2 years and when I purchased it I thought it would be an easy ID with the Wurttemberg Frederich Order, LD1 and the Portegese Order of Christ 3rd Class. It has proven to be a hard nut to crack. I have looked through every Army and Navy RL that I have from about 1897 forward and no match. I took inspiration from another who member who lloked through the DOA 1908/09. I have just complete looked though A-C and come up with only one possiblility.

First the bar:

[Paul C]

I have tried to find Richard Berends in my earlier ranklists since he lists that he is a a.D. Hptm. I tried the 1890 first since I saw the date of 14.9.65. I thought this was a birthday but then realized the the abbreviation is not geb. but daf. Was is the daf. abbreviation? Any suggestion when he was in the Army? I would like to see if he was a reserve officer and maybe has the Wurttem FO and did not list it.

[Guest Rick Research]

That's "das." for "born in the same place" (Hamburg).

Berends would not seem to be a match since per that entry at least he was an ex REGULAR officer, and this has a Reserve-Landwehr Cross.

All I can find on him is his minimal entry in the 1935 Wer Ist's referring back to the edition of 1928 for details:

former Consul of Brazil, Costa-Rica, and Panama in

Bombay and Hamburg

Dr.jur.utriusque.

No South American countries are listed in the 1917 Hofkalendar, since they had joined the United States in the war.

I don't find any army "Berends" for Consul Georg at all, but the spelling in 1908 is the same as 1935. Puzzling.

[webr55]

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

[Paul C]

Thanks for the replies and help. I'll keep you posted.

[Glenn J]

Here is Berends' entry from the 1928 edition of Wer Ists. The only mention of military service is his "one year" in 1889-90. Realistically speaking if he achieved the rank of Hauptmann, active or reserve he would not have done so unitl at least the early 1900s. I cannot find any Oberleutnants or Hauptm?nner in any contingent in this period who matches this name. I think perhaps a mistake in DOA regarding his former military service.

Regards

Glenn

[Glenn J]

Second part.

Regards

Glenn

[Paul C]

Glenn, Thanks for the post. Yes, something is wrong. I could not find him in any RL. I rather doubt he is the correct guy as I find no bayern or lippe connections in any of his listings, although the HH medal makes sense. Also were did the Wf3a come from. I looked through some of my Wurtt. State and Court books and could not find him. The search continues.

Edited January 26, 2007 by Paul C