GRUPPE ARNEITZ badge, freikorps?

[Canutt]

Hallo to all, can you provide me some info about this badge? Is it freikorps related or is austrian?

regards,
mario

[Canutt]

rear

[Robin Lumsden]

I think it could be Stahlhelm.

I don't know why.......

[Christian L]

guess that it is freikorps related - but what i'm really wondering is, that you can't see a date on the front but on the reverse you can see the date 1919 as a mirror - how this is possible? as the badge is hollow stamped, isn't it?
christian

[Patrick W]

I would guess it has either been ground for whatever reason (if it thin then this would not work) or the obverse die was replaced to exclude the date whilst keeping the original reverse die. I would say Freikorp too.

[VerKuilen Ager]

Any freikorps of Armee Gruppe stature would be very well documented, but the name Arneitz doesn't appear on any unit. The Stahlhelmbund used the Gau/Landesverbande organizational structure, so it's not from them. My guess is that it was one of the zillions of Austrian unit tinnies; this one for an Army Group that was planning ahead and had an item made up late in 1918. The war ended and the 1919 date no longer made any sense. Maybe they ground off the date and handed the things as a parting gift.

[carinthia]

Kappenabzeichen Kärntner Awehrkampf (Carinthia)

Kärntner Abwehrkampf 1918/1919
Kappenabzeichen Oberleutnant Viktor Arneitz (Kampfgruppe Arneitz )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Plebiscite)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Plebiscite

http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4rntner_Abwehrkampf

[VerKuilen Ager]

Good work Carinthia! It only took 11 years for the right person to dig in the right direction. At least I got the Austrian part right. Arneitz went to the k. u. k. Staats-Realschule in Klagenfurt, Austria and was involved in the fighting in Südkärnten. So, from the Austrian end of things; and why his name wasn't likely to show up in the German histories.

[Sergeant 08]

Good work Carinthia! It only took 11 years for the right person to dig in the right direction.

Not 11 years! We were faster! Thread started in 2006, that means it took only 5 years. Sometimes it takes some time, but the answers are always out there.

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Arneitz

http://www.getwsx.at/rs/arneitz005.JPG

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Viktor Arneitz Biographie

http://www.kab.or.at/?id=online_shop

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