Help wanted indentifying Medal bar

[justamanda]

Hello,

I got this Kriegsmarine tunic which apperently has WW1 medals on the medal bar. Knowing very little about Kriegsmarine and even less about ww1 marine. I would like your help to indentify these medals?

For all pictures see original thread:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/Foru...d.php?t=718724

IMO it is a leutnant?
Thx for the help

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[Alex K]

Hi, the awards are:

Prussia: Iron cross second class
Bavaria: Military merit cross or military merit order
Honor cross for combattants
Sudetenland occupation medal

Regards, Alex

[justamanda]

Hi, the awards are:

Prussia: Iron cross second class
Bavaria: Military merit cross or military merit order
Honor cross for combattants
Sudetenland occupation medal

Regards, Alex

Was it a marine custom to wear WW1 decorations on a WW2 uniform?
Why did they receive decorations from different german regions?
Would it have been realistic to presume this man had all these different medals?
thx for the advice

[PaulChep]

I do not believe that the ribbon bar goes with the tunic. It is not a typical WWI Navy ribbon bar. The ribbon bar is of the Bavarian type with Bavarian awards on it.

The name on the tunic is Ranst. There was a paymaster with that name in the Imperial German Navy but he did not have those awards.