last but not least... Part IV

[Klaus O.]

My latest medal bar... not bought in Stuttgart but in München in a Antique shop. The price was very fair...

Here's the description:

1) EK 2. Kl. 1914
2) Bremen, Hanseatisches Kreuz
3) EK für Frontkämpfer
4) Preussen, RAO 4. Kl.
5) Preussen, Offz. DA
6) Preussen, RK Medaille 2. Klasse
7) Deutsches Reich, China-Denkmünze
8) Preussen, Zentenar Medaille (100th birth of Wilhelm 1st)

The cloth on the reverse is dark blue (Kriegsmarine) with a heavy brass and catch (bar is convex, follows shape of the chest). The configuration of the bar suggests that very likely this officer was a doctor. Rick: is there any chance to identify this officer... I know the chances are very little, because all medals are quite common... perhaps the cross of Bremen is not so common and the RK medal 2nd class, too!

For tonight is enough... I really have to go to bad... Sorry for the large pics, but I hope that you can enjoy them as I do...

Ciao,

Claudio

[Klaus O.]

Please delete this thread, thank you!

Sorry for my mistake... I already posted it on a another thread...

Thanks!

Claudio

[Rick Research]

No you didn't... or at least I can't find another one!

I hope you aren't on Double Shift at the Nuclear Power Plant tonight!




Original owner identification follows:

one of THREE naval doctors are possible. None are an exact match, because of incomplete knowledge of awards, based on the February 1918 Naval Rank List (often months behind "current"). The Red Cross 2nd without the usual Red Cross 3rd suggests a semi-improper post-war award-- when most of these were granted.

COULD BE any of the following, all of whom served in China and had pre-1897 seniority as well as a Red Eagle 4:

Dr.med. Franz Fontane, born 3.8.1872. BUT-- he served in Finland in 1918 and would almost certainly have worn their 1918 campaign medal, if not a 2nd Class Cross of Liberty. Retired 1920 as a char. Marine-Generalarzt aD. At that time this was the title for a "Kapitän zur See" medical officer, NOT an "Admiral" level. He held a pre-1918 Red Cross Medal THIRD Class, but no Bremen shown and no Bremen connection in the WW1 service for him. Alive 1931.


Dr. med. Hans Heinemann, born 9.12.1872. Retired 1919 as Marine-Generaloberarzt aD (= "Fregattenkapitän" as a rank title then). No Red Cross Medal at all shown, nor a Bremen. No Bremen connection from war service. Alive 1935, and a general practioner in Lauenburg, Pomerania. The only one of these three to belong to the naval officers association.

or

Dr. med. Otto Günther, born 3.9.1873. Retired 1920 as char. Mar.-Generaloberarzt aD. No Bremen or Red Cross Medal shown. No connection to Bremen from war service. Alive 1931.


So most likely one of the last two doctors.

[Klaus O.]

Rick,

Wow! That was fast.... I thought it would have been a piece of cake for you... :-)

Too bad, that I don't have anything else than the bar of this officer, that could narrow down to the real name of the owner!

Many Thanks, Rick!

Ciao,

Claudio