Silesian Eagles in wear

[TerryG]

How about posting your photos of these interesting badges, 1st and 2nd class, as worn on uniforms. Here's the 1st one from me...I'd love to know his name!

[TerryG]

Another

[TerryG]

Close up of 1st one

[Guest Rick Research]

Ribbons too blurry for me, but maybe Glenn can get the General from his face.

A highly unlikely recipient:

closeup

Bizarrely, he's wearing his 1st Class Silesian eagle with an UN-updated pre-war medal bar!

[Ulsterman]

note the empty ribbon at the end:

[Guest Rick Research]

Not only that, but the weirdo is wearing his Brunswick "Bew?hrungsabzeichen" on his tunic pocket instead of on the ribbon of his Ernst August Cross where it belongs!!!!

[Ulsterman]

...and the eagle has swords....

[Guest Rick Research]

Count Drakkalah too:

Ohhhhhkay, his name was really Paul Hartlaub, a former career officer who went into the Landwehr and had himself snapped in buzz-cut, white tie and tails, obligatory monocle, and NSDAP Officials stickpin... for Christmas 1938:

5 years after the Xs were supposed to have been banned.

And here is another Freaky View over in the New Improved Authorized Ribbon Bar Article-In-Progress:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?automodule=gal...=si&img=394

and see the close up following the scan above.

[Ulsterman]

...well, since you mention Weimar:

[TerryG]

Bringing this back to the top...

[James Clark]

I have one to add. There are swords on the ribbon bar but not on the badge.

[Ulsterman]

I have one to add. There are swords on the ribbon bar but not on the badge.

That looks like a Meybauer glossy enamel one.

[Scott]

Great photos. The elderly gent in post #4 is wearing the Iron Cross 1st Class, but no 2nd class...?

Scott

[Wessel]

(Original?) framed photo of Luftwaffe Oberleutnant of Administration with 1st class Silesian Eagle.

[Robin Lumsden]

One more...................

[nesredep]

Hello!

Wow, great photos.Thanks for share.

All the best

Nesredep

[TerryG]

Back to the top with this one:

[Deruelle]

An interresting Eagle !!!

Christophe

[Laurence Strong]

Ferdinand Honisch

[Eric Stahlhut]

An interresting Eagle !!!

Christophe

hallo christophe,

if you check the other thread concerning these silesian eagles you will see a possible reason for the crooked swords.

cheers, ~e

[Naxos]

How about posting your photos of these interesting badges, 1st and 2nd class, as worn on uniforms. Here's the 1st one from me...I'd love to know his name!

Looks like Generalleutnant Erich H?cker.

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Person...er/HoeckerE.htm

Hardy

Edited November 1, 2008 by Naxos

[TerryG]

Looks like Generalleutnant Erich H?cker.

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Person...er/HoeckerE.htm

Hardy

Thanks. Am I missing something? is there a photo of him on the site you indicate?

[Naxos]

Here is the only pic I can find of him

Hardy

[TerryG]

It does look like the same guy! Thanks.

[VJK]

Here is another pic of Erich H?cker with the Silesian Eagle in view.

Regards,

VJK