Trautloft & Mölders ribbon bar identification

[panzerpionier]

Hi, greetings from Spain

I'm trying to identify Mölders & Trautloft's ribbon bars:

Hannes Trautloft

From left:

-Iron Cross, 2nd class
-?
-Long service medal
-¿Spanish Military Medal?
-¿Spanish Campaign Medal?

Werner Mölders

From left:

-?
-¿Spanish Military Medal?
-¿Spanish Campaign Medal?
-Long service medal

Note that I have a list of Legion Condor Spanish Military Medal recipients, and neither Trautloft nor 'Vati' Mölders are included. That's the reason I want to know if they actually wear that Spanish decoration.

Thanks in advance. Best regards

[Daniel Krause]

Trautloft has:

- EK 2 39
- ?
- Air Force long service 4 th class
- Sudetenland annexion with prague bar
- I would think it is the Spanish military cross; normally a breast star but also worn as ribbon bar (I think this was the old Maria-Christina-military order)
- spanish campaign medal

Mölders has:

- EK 2 39
- I would think it is Spanish military cross; normally a breast star but also worn as ribbon bar (I think this was the old Maria-Christina-military order)
- Spanish campaign medal
- Air Force long service 4th class.

Best regards

Daniel

[jacques]

Hi
Both are wearing the "Military Medal" and the "campaign medal" awarded in Spain by Franco or von Richthofen. indeed , any recipients are not listed for the "Military Medal" but did receive it.
jacques

[panzerpionier]

Thank for the info, Spiess.

Note that Military Medal was (and still is) not a breast star. I think you have mistaken it with the War Cross (Cruz de Guerra), which was a simplification of the older Maria Cristina Cross.

hey, I forgot Trautloft's Sudeten medal.

Best regards

[W. C. Stump]

SPANISH MILITARY MEDAL

The Spanish Military medal comes on a white ribbon with thin yellow borders and a red-yellow-red center.

[jacques]

Hi
According to the list PzPio sent to me, I found 3 more based on pics:
- Kübler (Imker gruppe)
- Schob (Lw)
- Hubert Josef (lw)
jacques

[panzerpionier]

Here's a very nice pic of Wolfram von Richthofen wearing his Spanish Military Medal on his LW uniform.
von Richthofen
Unfortunately the pic is very small, and it's reversed. Does anybody know of a better scan of that pic?

Best regards

[W. C. Stump]

ENLARGEMENT OF THE PHOTOGRAPH

I have attempted to enlarge your photo, but lost some of the detail in the process.

[panzerpionier]

Thanks for your help, Mr Stump. Could you reverse it? Note that it's horizontally flipped (decorations on Richthofen's right breast)

Best regards

[W. C. Stump]

FLIPPED

I flipped him.

[W. C. Stump]

KNIGHTS CROSS ADDED

I think that his knights cross was added to this photograph.