5 minutes for Rick

[WNickel]

An interesting ribbon bar for Rick.

[Bill M]

--That TOP bar would be great to see fleshed out with the decorations!!
--The second bar perplexes me for a variety of reasons.
-Of the 4 ribbons between the Honor Cross and the Afrika - which of the blues is the Long Service, what is the other and what are those two in between them?
-Also, I am assuming that the bars belonged to the same owner so why no Afrika or Centenary on the top bar?
-Lastly, why are the Wurttemburg and Oldenburg decorations reversed? I am assuming that is a Knight's X of the Wurttemburg Crown.
--Just questions, I'm not challenging the bar!

[Rick Research]

Ahhhh!!! EXCELLENT set Werner! The top bar is the "short" version, wearing only the wartime stuff and not all those peacetime awards. I have a much smaller pair like that for later Konteradmiral zS Heinrich Kehrhahn, shown in The Ribbon Bar Article.

Now-- tell us who this was, please so we don't have to hunt through all those horrible Ranglisten!

I think Daniel, whose Evil Plot it is to get every Württemberg Crown Order with Swords ribbon bar in the world, will have a heart attack! Rick

[Daniel Krause]

Arg! Arg! Medics!!!!!!!!

There, There..... is another Württemberg crown!

Sell it to meeeeeeeeeeeee!

BTW, nice bars Werner, wer war er?

Beste Grüße

Daniel

[WNickel]

a little bit more

The four ribbons are
prussia crown order
prussia red eagle
bavaria MVO
prussia 25 years

Rick is on the right - the bar on the top were the wartime awards.

a heart-attack for Daniel - oh no I don't risk it........




Maybe....

The wearer was Oberstleutnant aD Wantke, a member of the german marinecorps.

[Bill M]

--One of the best bars I've ever seen!!!
--Thanks, I was thinking Red Eagle and Crown Order, but figured they'd be up on the bar before the Honor Cross.

[Bill M]

--Just had another look. WOW!!!!!!

[Rick Research]

It's...

OK...

you can take the oxygen mask off...

now!!!...

Oh what a nifty group! And very bad Oskar Wantke-- his peacetime Bavarian MVO4 is NOT listed in the 1918 Marine Rangliste, but luckily for us, there it is in the Militärwochenblatt rolls published by Michael Autengruber, 9 June 1914. Got the same class with swords 7.12.14, HHOX 23.12.17.

He was born 17.10.1872: Inf Rgt 88,
Sekondeleutnant 27.1.93, Oberleutnant 27.1.02, Hauptmann 10.9.08, Major 18.4.15, retired as char. Oberstleutnant aD. Went from the army to naval infantry 1.9.13-15.5.19, Battalion Commander in 2.MIR to July 1918, then Commander of 1. MIR. I don't find anything on him after the 1930 Marine Ehrenrangliste.

Just remember, Werner-- you have to give us "warning" when you're going to post something like that... some of us... get over excited easily!!! Rick

PS the very strange KO4, RAO4, MVO4 must be in that literally "in the order received" following of regulations, since of course the Red Eagle should precede the Crown Order.

[Daniel Krause]

Hi Werner,

really an amazing grouping! Congratulations!
I´m not jealous because of the Württemberg crown order... noooo not me...

Beste Grüße

Daniel

[Stijn David]

woaw what a bar

Hello,


OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH my goodness what a excellent bar => damn such a piece is like a dream for every collection I can imagine , even for a Zinc freak as me


Very very nice

[WNickel]

I will be careful in the future.....

I belonged nothing of Davids heart attack - I think: "he is fine about the mountain". To his reassurance - it is my only crownorder from Württemberg.
I think, he is much younger than we both.......

Somewhere I have read that Wantke was still a General of the police in the thirty's - maybe his career ended in 1937 when he was 65 years old.

Werner