Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 Last the Hungarian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 It seems that Paul was a stong member of the NSDAP in later life and was a member of the "Garde Kameradschaft". On his 70th Birthday he was given a personalised card from them along with a letter from the NSDAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 And the inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 (edited) And to round up the grouping, a couple of letters from the NSDAP Edited August 4, 2007 by Mike Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 Last one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 Well gent's I hope I haven't bored you with this grouping. There remains a couple of things that I have to find still. Paul's Medal Bar and Ribbon Bar Now if that could be achieved then I would be one very happy bunny.Thank you all for looking and providing the additional information. It's much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Mike,That's a Bulgarian "been there" document. Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Check out the date on his Austrian WW1 Commemorative !!!Five more days, and there WAS no Austria! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eitze Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 Hi Mike,the world is a small place I am from Recklinghausen and so it is nice to see this group from a former citizen of my hometown His old flat at Goethestreet 4 is a parallel street of my office. Tomorrow I`ll see if the old house is still standing or if it was destroyed during the bombing in WW2!greetingseitze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 5, 2007 Author Share Posted August 5, 2007 Chip, Doohhhhhh I feel so silly, a slip of country on my behalf. Eitze,It would be fantastic if his old house was still there But even nicer to discover that it was still owned by his family If the property does still survive, could you take a photo of it for me please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 It's odd how BITS go missing from what are otherwise remaarkably intact groups. Along with the missing Hiundeburg Cross X document, he would have received first the 25 years and then the 40 years Treudienst Crosses of 1938-43, and I'd have expected a vital wartime industries upper manager like him to have acquired a civil KVK2 as well during the Second war-- since he was apparently plugging along still at 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 5, 2007 Author Share Posted August 5, 2007 It's odd how BITS go missing from what are otherwise remaarkably intact groups. Along with the missing Hiundeburg Cross X document, he would have received first the 25 years and then the 40 years Treudienst Crosses of 1938-43, and I'd have expected a vital wartime industries upper manager like him to have acquired a civil KVK2 as well during the Second war-- since he was apparently plugging along still at 70.Those were my thoughts also Rick. I did miss out on some things from the original seller. He told me later that he had also sold the documents and awards to Paul's eldest son who was killed in action on a U boat. There was also a photograph of Paul Stein with G?ring that had been published in a newspaper of the time.Rick, can you answer a question for me please. In the photo's I have, Pauls ribbon bar shows 4 awards. Would the long service ribbon be the 1st class of the Landwehr DA with the gold/yellow side stips? Or the normal plain blue ribbon. It's hard to make it out on the photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 This is a fantastic group indeed!It warms my heart to see things like this, especially as it seems so lonely out here as a document collector most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Check out the date on his Austrian WW1 Commemorative !!!Five more days, and there WAS no Austria! Yeah-that's what jumped out at me too. That's almost certainly one of the last 100 medals awarded by the old Republic! It gives us a good 'medal count". :jumping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eitze Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Hi Mike,today I went to Goethestr. with my digicam, but unfortunately No. 4 and 4 a is a big red double house with a couple of flats It looks like a house built in the 1970.Further I checked the register for this new house, but there was no "Stein" ever lived inside.Also a ckeck for the name "Paul Stein" in the resident register was negative.Unfortunately the name "Stein" (= stone) is common.If you wish I could send a note to the archive register, to get the date of his death. But this could last some days.greetingseitze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 This is a fantastic group indeed!It warms my heart to see things like this, especially as it seems so lonely out here as a document collector most of the time.This is what brings the awards to life Chris. Thank heavens that German families looked after their ancesters paperwork .... unlike most British families, who just thought it was junk to be thrown away.Documents are the backbone of History. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted August 6, 2007 Author Share Posted August 6, 2007 (edited) Hi Mike,today I went to Goethestr. with my digicam, but unfortunately No. 4 and 4 a is a big red double house with a couple of flats It looks like a house built in the 1970.Further I checked the register for this new house, but there was no "Stein" ever lived inside.Also a ckeck for the name "Paul Stein" in the resident register was negative.Unfortunately the name "Stein" (= stone) is common.If you wish I could send a note to the archive register, to get the date of his death. But this could last some days.greetingseitzeEitze,What a shame that the house was most probably destroyed in WWII. Thank you for checking it out for me. I would be very grateful if you could check the archive register for the date of Paul Stein's death. Of course any costs I will be happy to reimburse you for. Thank you for your interest and help.Many thanks, Mike Edited August 6, 2007 by Mike Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eitze Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Eitze,What a shame that the house was most probably destroyed in WWII. Thank you for checking it out for me. I would be very grateful if you could check the archive register for the date of Paul Stein's death. Of course any costs I will be happy to reimburse you for. Thank you for your interest and help.Many thanks, MikeMike,I`ve send a letter to them today; let`s see if they can find him!greetingseitze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) Rick, can you answer a question for me please. In the photo's I have, Pauls ribbon bar shows 4 awards. Would the long service ribbon be the 1st class of the Landwehr DA with the gold/yellow side stips? Or the normal plain blue ribbon. It's hard to make it out on the photo.I'm still trying to work this one out Rick. What is your opinion, 1st class or second? Edited November 19, 2007 by Mike Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 He's wearing his 4 ribbon bar in "Super Prussian" precedence--EK2LD1 (dark blue comes out looking light in old photo processing)Lippe Cross (the red and yellow blur together as solid dark leaving only the white edges)Austrian MMC wWD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 He's wearing his 4 ribbon bar in "Super Prussian" precedence--EK2LD1 (dark blue comes out looking light in old photo processing)Lippe Cross (the red and yellow blur together as solid dark leaving only the white edges)Austrian MMC wWD Thanks Rick, that's not what I expected. I thought the Lippe Cross was the second award on the bar.How come he would wear a LD long service award before the Lippe Merit Cross? You've now got me even more confused.Ahhhhhhhhhh precedence is so confusing Please explain further Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 That's what "Super Prussian" was-- all Prussian first, then other German, then foreign awards.Usually it's war awards, peace awards, foreign awards.An either/or personal fashion/regulations choice.maybe easier to visualize in color.Here is a "Super Prussian" from David S's collection, as worn 1916-17 by Prussian Pioneers staff Oberst Ludwig Meyer (1860-1918):Prussian awards first--1)Iron Cross 2nd Class2)Red Eagle Order 4th Class3)Prussian XXV Years Service Cross4)1897 Wilhelm I Centenary Medalthen "foreign" German wartime awards5)BMV3X (6.7.15)6)SMK (30.8.16)7)HTand finally foreign wartime8)?M3KHe could just as well have worn these in this precedence-- 1, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 4, 8.More usual is this one:War awards all together "up front," but then this Brunswick native (as yet unidentified) messes things up by putting his ?CrownOrder/?Prussian Long Service and 1897 Medal AHEAD of his own native peacetime awards-- some grade of the Brunswick House Order, trailed last of all by what is most likely the insanely rare (99 ) Brunswick Lifesaving Medal. So HIS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 SHOULD have beeen 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 5 (if long service), 6 in correct war/peace precedence.Also from David's collection, a couple of smaller Super Prussians which are--like the Hauptmann's ribbons--perfectly in Ordnung:Top: Iron Cross, a Prussian long service award, Oldenburg Friedrich August Cross (probably a Petty Officer's or NCO's bar)Bottom: Iron Cross and Prussian long service, Anhalt Friedrich Cross, and Saxe-Altenburg's Bravery Medal-- another NCO's bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 That explains it precisely. Thanks Rick. I've got years of learning to go yet before I could explain this .... Your a star and a leading light on research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Huxley Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 No wonder the "Evil One" visits you so often. Wizardry is the secret behind Imperial award research Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Here are 5 sets of regulations posted in the article side of our website:http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?autocom=galler...q=sc&cat=28Prussian/Reichs (almost always the same thing)BavarianSaxonandMecklenburgshow some of the changes over time and differences among the federal Imperial states. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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