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    Please ID Medals Schaumburg-Lippe Bückeburg Kuhlgath


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    Good evening Gentlemen,

    I got this photo lately. It shows Mr and Mrs Kuhlgath of Bückeburg or thereabouts on the occasion of their silver jubilee. As Bückeburg was a city of the state of Schaumburg-Lippe I suppose he is wearing medals of this state. Could anybody please help identify the medals and maybe even the gentleman in question, Mr. Kuhlgath?

    Thanks a lot!

    GreyC

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    Hi

    Top Neck decoration, Lippe-Detmold Cross of Honour Commander 3rd Class, Civil

    Lower Neck Cross, Saxe-Weimar, Order of the White Falcon Commander class

    Breast Medal as for top Neck decoration, difficult to determine class

     

    Hope this helps, others may elaborate

     

    regards

     

    Alex K

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    Konsistorialrat Wilhelm Kuhlgatz got besides the Schaumburg-Lippe Ehrenkreuz 2. Klasse and the Sachsen-Weimar Falkenorden Komturkreuz the until 1890 from the principalities Lippe-Detmold and Schaumburg-Lippe (conjointly awarded) Ehrenkreuz 4. Klasse.

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    Hi Alex K and Komtur,

    thank you very much for your help, much appreciated!

    I have done some digging and found out the following:

    Wilhelm Kuhlgatz was promoted to DD after his studies at the University of Jena in 1868 with his thesis on:

    Quid veteres literaeque sanctae de surdis mutisque existimaverint, disseritur.

    He was married to Klara, nee Sauerwein, * 21.2.1846, sister of  Georg Sauerwein, the polyglot  language exepert in Germany at that time.

    They had at least three sons:

    Wilhelm (Diss Kiel prob. MD, 1915);  Ludwig Pastor *21.1.1887 and Oskar *7th Oct.1880 in Bückeburg, died 30th Oct. 1952 in Göttingen. He was a writer with a less than straight CV, as it seems. He was Oberleutnant in WW1 and participa ted in the fights in Kurland 1919 about which he wrote a book Fahrten und Fechten in Kurland 1919. He seems to have started out as Einjährig Freiwiliger in the Jägerbataillon 4. Funnily enough not at the Jägerbataillon 7 which was based in Bückeburg.

    His father was (Landes)Superintendent of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1895-1907 and therefore Konsistorialrat, a rank given to people in the highest church council on state level.

    Landes-Superintendent would roughly translate to protestant bishop of that diocese.

    As the photo was taken on their 25th wedding anniversary and he is wearing the Ehrenkreuz 4. Klasse I´d date the photo around 1895.

     

    Thanks again,

    GreyC

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    Hmmm, strange guy...I can only find his SLH3, but in the Detmold rolls he is not listed at all...

    Kuhlgatz wears on the picture clearly Schaumburg-Lippe house-order 2nd class and Lippe-Detmold house-order 4th class.

    Regards
    Roman

     

     

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