Gedenkkreuz fur 1919

[Tom63]

What do you think? Thanks!

[Tom63]

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[Eric Stahlhut]

ok, i'll bite. what do the runes symbolize? i don't think i've encountered this cross before. do period fotos exist that show it being worn by freikorps members/veterans?

[Histaria]

I seem to recall that this, or a badge in the shape of just the black segment, appeared in the Oberlandbund anniversary book back in the 1970s, but I can't seem to find my copy right now. So I believe that this, or a somewhat similar design, existed. Unfortunately, there's nothing about this particular example to suggest that it is of freikorps-era manufacture, so it might be one of those fantasy pieces being cobbled together from old and new designs.

[Tom63]

I seem to recall that this, or a badge in the shape of just the black segment, appeared in the Oberlandbund anniversary book back in the 1970s, but I can't seem to find my copy right now. So I believe that this, or a somewhat similar design, existed. Unfortunately, there's nothing about this particular example to suggest that it is of freikorps-era manufacture, so it might be one of those fantasy pieces being cobbled together from old and new designs.

K.-G. Klietmann «Deutsche Auszeichnungen. 2. Band. Deutsches Reich 1871-1945»,1971, s.73

[Tom63]

Article of the professor Rosenwald. ОММ № 95. 2001

Edited July 29, 2010 by Tom63

[Eric Stahlhut]

thank you, k!

very interesting!! the thule society runes did seem familiar, but i could not quite place them.

based on the info you have shared, i'm not sure the example you have provided scans of seems to be an original period piece. but you already knew that ;)

[Tom63]

thank you, k!

very interesting!! the thule society runes did seem familiar, but i could not quite place them.

based on the info you have shared, i'm not sure the example you have provided scans of seems to be an original period piece. but you already knew that

m afraid we never we know how the original looks.

It is not known total awarded, how many firms made it.

Klietmann writes about a cross from weissmetal with makermarks of firm Lindner, Nimmergut about not marked items from kriegsmetal and buntmetal, and Rosenwald also about a crosses from silver with stamp «900». Confusion and with furnish of averse - here both colouring by a varnish, and enamel imposing.

Criteria of rewarding are unknown also. If to trust Schuster the cross freely was on sale. From this it follows that the document on rewarding was handed over only. Therefore the awarded could both to buy a cross offered to sale, and to order it in a private order.

Proceeding from it various variants of a sign are possible.

My sign with enamel on averse and under the description of fakes made by Shuster does not approach. So goodness knows.