Trying to ID a medal bar

[Laurence Strong]

No photo however here is what he had, it came on a Third Reich Maj Generals tunic

Top row L-R: WWI Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class (WWI), Eastern Front Medal (WWII), War Merit Medal of Saxe-Meiningen (WWI), Hindenburg Cross (WWI), Schlesischer Eagle (WWI), Baltic Cross (WWI).

Bottom row L-R: 25 Year Long Service medal, 25 Year Long Service medal(WWI and II), 1 Oct 1938 Czech medal (WWII), Hungarian WWI veteran medal (WWI),

Nazi Mine Rescue medal (WWII), Bulgarian War medal (WWI)

[webr55]

Is that a ribbon or a medal bar? I think we definitely need a photo before saying anything about that bar, because...

... a General in Mine Rescue Service?? And this medal behind the Hungarian?? Or is it something else?

... which long service medals? (WM cross 25 + WM medal 12?)

... Baltic Cross on a medal bar is unusual at least.

[Ulsterman]

I doubt it's Mine Rescue-probably Rumanian.

[Laurence Strong]

Thanks guys.

It from a different forum...they don't know where the experts live. I think you are right....looks to be Romanian or something like that.

Real or made up?????

[Paul R]

Real or made up?????

Hi Larry,

I would think that much better photos would be needed to confirm it's originality.

[Dave Danner]

Second to last is the Bulgarian National Order for Military Merit.

[Laurence Strong]

Hi Larry,

I would think that much better photos would be needed to confirm it's originality.

Hi Paul

Not mine...was just wondering if the medal bar could be ID'd as belonging to someone....it's a Maj Gen tunic supposedly

[dante]

Hi Paul

Not mine...was just wondering if the medal bar could be ID'd as belonging to someone....it's a Maj Gen tunic supposedly

IMHO Looks like an old Bundeswehr tunic with bits added, I will let the experts loose on the ribbon bar, but looks decidedly new

[Laurence Strong]

Gen'l d. Kav. Georg Stumme

Knights Cross

Acting CO Afrika Korps

Died of Heart attack El Alamein.

Edited September 30, 2007 by Laurence Strong

[Guest Rick Research]

Stumme received the 83rd Saxe-Meiningen War Honor Cross on 24 July 1915 as an Oberleutnant in Feldart Rgt 57.

The next to last ribbon is the Bulgarian Military Merit Order-Officer, on its statute ribbon. It could also have been awarded on the generic war ribbon (pale blue with a metallic silver stripe near each edge).

[webr55]

Here's a picture of Stumme:

 

 

Edited April 4, 2022 by webr55

[webr55]

That was an old one, with retouched shoulderstraps.

Here's another one:

 

 

Edited April 4, 2022 by webr55

[Daniel Cole]

He looks like Col. Klink with that monocle.