A nice Juncker L/12 Ritterkreuz (Cord v. Hobe???)

[Leroy]

It is a wonderful cross, at least connected with a known individual (even though not "official").

[Robert T.]

However, Cord v. Hobe was NOT a Knights Cross winner. His first proposal was denied by Hitler on 10. April, the second one was too late nor were the people authorizing it authorized to do so.

Dietrich

I guess that being Franz Halder's son-in-law did not help....

Robert

For those interested Hobe is the son in law of the former General Colonel Franz Halder and was therefore put in connection with the 20th of july 1944. He was taken in kinship detention and was relieved of his official duties.

Best regards

"On 23 July 1944, following the failed July 20 assassination attempt on Hitler's life by German Army officers, Halder was arrested by the Gestapo. Although he was not involved in the July 20 plot, intense interrogations of the conspirators revealed that Halder had been involved in earlier conspiracies against Hitler. Halder was imprisoned at both the Flossenbürg and the Dachau concentration camps. Halder's wife Gertrud chose to, and was allowed to, accompany her husband into imprisonment. On 31 January 1945, Halder was officially dismissed from the army. In the last days of April 1945, together with some members of families of the July 20 plot and other 'special' prisoners, he was transferred to the South Tyrol, where the entire group of nearly 140 prisoners was liberated from their SS guards by members of the Wehrmacht, and then turned over to US troops on May 4[19] after the SS guards fled. Halder spent the next two years in an Allied prisoner of war camp."