Also a non-combatant...

[ixhs]

Hi !

 

Just wanted to show you one of my portrait photos.

The highly decorated guy is R. Schröder Branddirektor in Weimar

(Firedirector in Weimar - at this time Freistaat Thüringen/Weimar era)

I.m.o. the picture must have been taken in the late 1920s bevor

the 3rd Reich.

Schröder is wearing the following decorations (as i could id them)

-Feuerwehrverdienstkreuz Thüringer Feuerwehrverband 1927-1934

-Deutsches Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. oder 2nd class 1929-36

- ????????

-Verdienstkreuz Württembergischer Landesfeuerwehrverband 1924-1936

-Feuerwehrehrenkreuz Landesverband freiwilliger hessischer Feuerwehren 1930-36

-Preussen Lebensrettungsmedaille bis 1918

-????? not to id

-Ehrenkreuz des badischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes 1926-36

-Feuerwehrehrenkreuz des bayerischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes rote Ausführung 1926-36

-Feuerwehrehrenkreuz 1. Modell Freistaat Thüringen 1920-1925

-Freistaat Thüringen Lebensrettungsmedaille

-Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 2. Modell

-Freistaat Thüringen Feuerwehrehrenabzeichen 1. Modell - je 1925-34

-(rare to find on pics): Feuerwehr Verdienstkreuz des Provinzialfeuerwehrverbandes Sachsen (ca 1925; i can see the saxon coat on arms on the avers side)

-Preussen Goldenes (?) Feuerwehrehrenzeichen für Verdienst um das Feuerlöschwesen 1923-1934

(rare to find on pics): Sachsen/Weimar Ehrenzeichen für Mitglieder der Feuerwehren 1890-1918

and finally: Rot Kreuz Ehrenkreuz 3.Klasse des Anhaltinischen Landesverbands vom Roten Kreuz

 

17 decorations.

 

Does somebody know which cross could it be on position 3?

 

Thanks for help and watching.

 

 

 

Edited October 8 by ixhs

[GreyC]

Nice photo!

Matching his status as head of fire department, he had his portrait taken by the most prestigious photographer in Weimar during the times of the monarchy and after. As he signed the photo himself it was taken 1925 at the latest, as his daughter took over the studio that year.

GreyC

[ixhs]

Thanks for your reply and your explanations.

 

Danke!