At Last! An EK to the Field Clergy!

[Chris Boonzaier]

It took about 25 years to find an EK group to a Military priest... :-)

[gavinmedals]

Congratulations well done, must be a great feeling.

[dond]

Interesting.  And it must be on the black/white combatant ribbon.  Also the Hindy with swords for a frontschwein. Perhaps he brought fire and brimstone down at the critical moment.

[Chris Liontas]

Wow!   Very nice Chris!    I've never seen one before.   yhatvus about as rare as it gets, even more so than aviators.  Any idea where it was awarded (I don't have my glasses. :-) ) 

[Tony]

Have you found any photos of him in uniform?

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi, awarded on the 8th of November 1918,

 

unfortunately I do not have a photo of him :-(

[Claudius]

An excellent doc group to an underappreciated class of men that shared the trenches with their combatant countrymen.

[ixhs]

There were a few thousands of

Katholische/luth. Feldpfarrer, Feldhilfsgeistlicher, Feldpater and some Divisionspfarrer, Regimentspfarrer, and Feldpröpste

and some of the Feldrabbiner Jews like Dr. Aron Tänzer

A famous luth. priest was Rupert Mayer http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F9%2F9b%2FB%C3%BCrgersaal_Eisernes_Kreuz_Rupert_Mayer.jpg%2F220px-B%C3%BCrgersaal_Eisernes_Kreuz_Rupert_Mayer.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRupert_Mayer&h=161&w=220&tbnid=Of7qqG46zzRzWM%3A&docid=oc6VhfLH1vcReM&ei=N5QbWJ71FILxUu78lbgP&tbm=isch&client=firefox-b-ab&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=276&page=0&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=0ahUKEwje7OWSrY3QAhWCuBQKHW5-BfcQMwhAKB4wHg&bih=732&biw=1536

I am collecting photos of those guys.

 

Edited November 3, 2016 by ixhs

[Chris Liontas]

Very nice Rabbi photo!  Very nice shot of the star. 

[turtle]

Very interesting grouping! So far I´ve only seen clergymen with non-combatant Hindenburg Crosses!

[scottplen]

Here is an image I found online !