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    Hello Gentlemen,

    since many years I´ve got this bar in my collection.

    Now my question is it possible to get a name on it ?

    Iron Cross 2. Class

    Centenarmedaille

    Bavarian Military Merit Order 4. Class with Swords

    Saxsonian Albrechtsorden 1. Class with Swords

    Hanseatenkreuz Lübeck

    Hanseatenkreuz Hamburg

    Prussian Long Service Cross 25 Years for Officers

    Flandernkreuz

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    Hi,

    A very nice medal bar. It will be difficult to find the name of the owner. Except the DA and the centenary medal there is no other medals to help us through the Ranglisten 1914. He probably received the Red Eagle and or Crown Order but to neck order, so this officer should sent lower grade back to Chancellery.

    Like there is no Hindenburg cross, I presume that he died before 1934. Now the only thing to do is to look throug the Reichswehr RL.

    Christophe

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    definitely a "Hauptmann"-bar (1914)....But I would also tend to Kapitänleutnant or "Hauptmann der Marine-Infanterie".

    So someone who was at the beginning of the war Hauptmann/Kaleu

    and ended like Korvettenkapitän or may be Fregattenkapitän a.D.

    Nice bar!!

    Best wishes

    Karsten

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    Guest Rick Research

    Did you people really miss me? :catjava: I searched back through all the old threads for the ones without answers, so I didn't find this. I thought with so many replies it must have been answered.

    Sure--

    Wolfgang Max Oskar Hans HERBIG

    * 1872

    SekLt 20.05.93 U2u

    ObLt 18.07.02 Q6q

    Hptm 27.01.10 P2p

    Major 18.08.15 Z2z

    char OTL aD ca 1920

    always in Jäger Bn 9 until replaced as commanding officer (08.08.15 until replaced 16.02.16). From 1916+ I don't know where or what he was.

    EK1

    BMV4X 05.11.14

    SA3aX 03.02.15

    LüH 05.02.16

    His portrait must be in JB 9 WW1 regimental history.

    Sources: the usual rank Lists and Rolls books

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    Guest Rick Research

    I'm willing to bet the first 5 medals were mounted during the war, then "scalped" after the war and the two 1920s awards added at the end rather than unstitching the other medals to put the XXV in correct 2nd place. Have seen this before when regulations no longer mattered and RM counted.

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    I can add that he was born 17.05.1872 and died 17.07.1954. If you are ever in Berlin, you can visit his grave in the Invalidenfriedhof!

    Andy

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    Thanks Rick for giving the bar his name back, You made

    my day :jumping::jumping::jumping: It´s my first WW I medal bar from

    my federal state Schleswig - Holstein with a name. The

    Jäger - Bataillon Nr. 9 came from Ratzeburg.

    Thanks Andy for adding his life date :love:

    Regards

    Andreas

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    Guest Rick Research

    My first group--thanks to a friend in Hamburg--was JB 9. RJB 9 was part of the 1918 expedition to Georgia. I corresponded frequently with Hptm aD Heinrich Wolgast in the 1980s about the Bn...

    one of MY favorites too!

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