Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) Hello Gentlemen,I just got a new highlight, maybe some of you saw it on Ebay, divided into single auctions ?I bought the complete group, to keep it together:The owner wasFriedrich August Christian Heinrich Sch?fer, Bezirksfeldwebel by the Bezirkskomando M?nsterborn in Detmold on February, 20th of 18851) his medalbar withIron Cross 2nd Class 1914Lippe-Detmold war merit cross (combatants-ribbon)Hanseatic cross HamburgHindenburg-crossMedal for long service 2nd class for 12 years (repaired)Medal for Long service 3th class for 9 yearsLippe-Detmold silver merit medal of the Leopold-OrderSchaumburg-Lippe silver merit medal Edited April 30, 2007 by Solomon
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) 2) Ribbon-bar withIron Cross 2nd Class 1914War merit cross 2nd class 1939 with swordsHanseatic cross HamburgLippe-Detmold war merit cross (combatants-ribbon)Schaumburg-Lippe silver merit medal (watch for the ribbon!!!! )Hindenburg-cross2 x Medal for long service WW 2 (The eagles are missing)The ribbon for the Leopold-Order is missing, because he wasn?t allowed to wear it without the medal (->statutes).But there is al litte mistake...the tailor put the wrong ribbon for the Schaumburg-Lippe merit medal on it (he mounted the Lippe-Detmold merit medal ribbon ). Edited April 30, 2007 by Solomon
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 3) Bestallung ?Bezirksfeldwebel?date: August, 4th 1911signed by: Generalmajor Wagner (?)
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 4) award-document for the silver merit medal Schaumburg-Lippedate: August, 17th 1911signed by: Freiherr von FeilitzschI don?t show the statutes and envelope for these documents, if needed I can also do. But...what is this??? Do you remember? He was born in Detmold, but he got an award from Schaumburg-Lippe (almost an political enemy of Lippe-Detmold) before he got something from Lippe-Detmold!
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 5) award-document for the silver merit medal of the ?Leopoldorden?date: August, 30th 1911signed by: (Eduard) Pustekuchen (Geheimer Regierungsrat Detmold, highly decorated)Ah...only 2 weeks later he got his Detmold-award....now he was political correct decorated By the way...there were 331 awards of this medal...
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 6) Letter for the award-document and statutessigned by: (Eduard) Pustekuchen
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 7) statutes for the ?Leopoldorden?This is the version with its changes till 1911...
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) 8) Award-document for the long service medal 3th class for nine yearsdate: November, 30th 1912signed by: ??? OberleutnantPlease remember, on that date he was only 27 years old!!! Edited April 30, 2007 by Solomon
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 9)Award-document for the war merit cross Lippe-Detmolddate: November, 20th 1915Ooooh...two bizarre things:He got his war merit cross Lippe-Detmold before the IC 2nd class 1914 !!!! And the type of document is new for me:The seal at the bottom is not printed black (as it is on my other documents for this award)!This must be a early type of the document...
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 10) Bestallung Feldwebelleutnantdate: December, 20th 1915signed by: Freiherr von Billisch (Generalgouverneur from Belgium)A quite uncommon document from Belgium?never seen before?
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 11) Award-document for the iron cross 2nd class 1914date: December, 21th 1915signed by: Generalleutnant Wemner
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) Puuh...hard work to post all items.... Some (unimportant) documents are missing:Hanseatic cross award-documentLong service medal 12 years award-documentAnd the award-documents for the WW2-awardsIf you see one of them, please inform me, if possible... I hope you like this rare and weird group...weird because of the awards from Schaumburg AND Detmold!GreetingsSolomon Edited April 30, 2007 by Solomon
Gerd Becker Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 What an amazing group, Solomon Thanks for sharing it with us.Great job keeping the group together, congrats
Guest Rick Research Posted April 30, 2007 Posted April 30, 2007 His Bezirksfeldwebel appointment was signed by later General der Infanterie Ernst Wagner (1854-1923)His IX years Medal was signed by Oberstleutnant "Lindenburg," but I am not sure which of TWO that name and rank this one was.The EK2 is signed by commander of the 7th W?rttemberg (!!!) Landwehr Division, Adolf von Wencher, who was the commander 6 April 1915 to 26 July 1917.Nice nice group-- and a very good balance to the destroyed traceable Lippe medal bar we've just seen on German eBay.
Solomon Posted April 30, 2007 Author Posted April 30, 2007 His Bezirksfeldwebel appointment was signed by later General der Infanterie Ernst Wagner (1854-1923)His IX years Medal was signed by Oberstleutnant "Lindenburg," but I am not sure which of TWO that name and rank this one was.The EK2 is signed by commander of the 7th W?rttemberg (!!!) Landwehr Division, Adolf von Wencher, who was the commander 6 April 1915 to 26 July 1917.Thank you very much for the identification.I added the information in my files.GreetingsSolomon
derGeneral Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 Congratulations Solomon, great work with a fantastic group
Glenn J Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 Solomon,the Generalgouverneur of Belgium was Generaloberst Moritz Freiherr v. Bissing.The Lindenberg is the 1914 Bezirkskommandeur of Crefeld - char Oberst (22.3.14) Lindenberg. The former commander of I./I.R. 173, he commanded Bezirkskommando M?nster from 13 September 1912 to 17 February 1914.RegardsGlenn
joemiller Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 This is a great thread. But could one of you explain the significance of the bezirksfeldwebel rank? How is it different from a feldwebel. I learn something new everytime I read a thread on the site.
Glenn J Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 Joe,the Bezirksfeldwbel was the designation of the SNCO in each company sized recruiting area district within a battalion sized recruiting dustrict (Bezirkskommando). Depending on the geographical size of the Bezirkskommando, the actual number of company districts and therefore Bezirksfeldwebeln could vary but usually there were about four or five per Bezirkskommando. The Bezirksfeldwebel was the main point of contact for all personnel subject to military service within his company sized recruiting area district and all requests for exemptions for reservist/Landwehr training exercise exemptions and notifications of changes of address etc, etc. were directed to him. RegardsGlenn
Guest Rick Research Posted May 1, 2007 Posted May 1, 2007 That is-- it was a POSITION but NOT a Rank. The Bezirksfeldwebel could have been an Unteroffizier. My "white-black" EK2 recipient, Sprungmann (search on that name should turn up various document threads) was this position in 1918, but had only been called up into the army in 1914. He was not a career long service NCO, but apparently had superior administrative skills.
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