Ribbon bar question: NSDAP Long Service + Sudetenland = ?

[James Clark]

Given the bar was created on May, 1 1939 to recognize service related to the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia (p. 133 Doehle, 1940) why would a customs official in Saxony get the bar? Do you have more information as to his career?
Could he have been seconded as an advisor? If he wasn't, then why wasn't every other Saxon customs offcial awarded the medal?

Every other group I have seen of this medal with a bar has either reflected somebody who was there or somebody who was sitting in Berlin making decisions about the people who were there.

The recipient was engaged as a Zollassistent on 30 Jan 1937, to a post in Schöna. His award document for the 1. Oktober Medal (dated 19. September 1939) shows him as a Zollassistent in Schöna, as does the one for the Spange, which is dated 9. Mai 1940. You can see the docs posted here:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=43357

He had previously done 12 years service in the Reichsheer, ending in April 1936. He was awarded the Zollgrenzschutz-Ehrenzeichen, still as a Zollassistent, in Coswig (near Dresden) in 1941. By Feb 1945 he was still in Coswig and had progressed to Zollsekretär.