Identified Ribbon Bar!

[Jason]

Well, after postal delays and being sick with the flu, here is the ribbon bar I picked up and posted here a couple of weeks ago. Rick was able to identify the owner, so I'll leave that honour to him!

cheers

Jason

[webr55]

Congratulations already!

I think this is one of the "highest-ranking" bars we have had on our forum!

Chris

[Guest Rick Research]

Number Two in the Kriegsmarine!

[Guest Rick Research]

? the INVALUABLE Biblio Admirals biographies quartet:

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page 2

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1914 Navy Rank List shows these:

But thanks to awards gazetted in the brief interlude between the Rank List Publication and outbreak of the war, he ended up with THIS ribbon bar as of the day the war started:

so here's us, half a planet apart, and two rows of ribbons to the same Admiral, obtained decades apart.

[Guest Rick Research]

Reichsmarine Ranglisten did not show peacetime awards from foreign countries. Albrecht aslo seems to have stopped wearing these enamelled courtesy vist gongs as well-- though I'm sure the Italian Crown Order went back on after the original Axis of Evil was formed.

1931 Navy rank List:

After the edition of 1932, awards were dropped from the seniroity section.

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Page from the 1936 edition:

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What

IF

wicked, geriatric old Nazi-butt-kisser Erich Raeder had NOT stayed on and on and on and on past retirement age?

Albrecht would have been Commander-in-Chief of the German navy.

Would irreplaceable resources have been wasted on useless antiquated prestige battleships and never completed air craft carriers? Would submarines have gotten the materiel they needed?

What IF it had not been Raeder who purged his rival Albrecht at the end of 1939-- but the other way around? Could D?nitz have swept up through all the intervening ranks...

or would WW2 have turned out very differently if Erich Raeder had not been calling the vicious personal shots until it was far too late?

From the 1963 Marine-Offiziere-Hilfe e. V. directory:

[Naxos]

Regards, Hardy

Edited August 7, 2007 by Naxos

[Jason]

Thanks must go to Rick for bringing the owner's ID to my attention. I could call this one of the luckiest finds I've ever made!!!

kind regards to all!

Jason

[webr55]

BTW, how many Generalfeldmarschall/Generaloberst (or equivalent) bars have we got on this forum? There is Rick with one part of a D?nitz bar, and someone's got GenOb Otto Dessloch's medal bar. Any others?

[Guest Rick Research]

Yup-- and I ID'd that one too for the lucky buyer.

I am THE Common Denominator. My merchandising department has yet to develop global marketing plans, however.

[HeikoGrusdat]

Good morning gentlemen.... sorry for answering some threads a bit late, but the spanish sun was too good to leave earlyer...

So, very nice ribbon bar of Conrad Albrecht..............would you be very surprised if I show you MY ribbon bar of Conrad Albrecht...???!!! - sew up!!!

greetings

Heiko

[Stogieman]

OK, nothing like a man prepared for all seasons & styles!

[webr55]

THAT is globalisation! Three bars of his on three different continents.

[Guest Rick Research]

Hey!

Glad that one was saved, Heiko!!!!

[HeikoGrusdat]

yes....................that is a really funny and nice way of globalisation

but.....has any of you ever seen the big medal bar, is it still alive???? would be great if one of us could get it

[Jason]

I was thinking the same thing Heiko...I wonder where his medal bar ended up?

[M Hunter]

I have just come across this old thread and the combination of awards shown in these ribbon bars looked familiar to me.

I have no idea who owned this medal bar but it is NOT the Generaladmiral's, given that there are Turkish awards present, but the combination of German awards is identical and I thought I would post it here to give an idea of what Albrecht's medal bar may look like!

Best wishes

Matt

[Guest Rick Research]

That's interesting! No one immediately comes up, though it seems to suggest navy. If it's yours, what color is the backing material on the bar?

If not... well if whoever does own it turns up, maybe by then we'll have figured out who it was worn by.

[M Hunter]

Hi Rick,

I too immediately thought Navy. Unfortunately it's not mine, I just had saved the photos and there was not one of the back.

Best wishes

Matt