Women wearing the mutterkreuz

[vellocino]

another one!

This one is lovely, she surely resembles the image of mother/grandmother of our infancy, at least she looks like my mother in law for sure.
Looking for a mother cross doc if anyone knows of one for sale, please PM.
Thanks
Vellocino

[Gran Sasso]

I have always loved mother crosses, here its a mother with what should be a silver cross, because she is sorrounded for 6 sons and daughters.

The older guy in black suit is most propably her husband.

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@vellocino: Wich grade are you looking for?

Another portrait shall we

[Curt Steinbach]

OK, maybe I missed something in the quailfications for this award but why do we usually see old women (ie with grown children) pictured with a Mother's Cross? If it was awarded for the number of children they had then there should be some younger women too.

Curt

[vellocino]

In post #30 you can see a fairly good looking and young woman wearing a mutter kreuz.
Thanks Eraser for the answer, a bronze award doc will do it for me, since I have a mini and a normal bronze cross missing the doc. PM for details.
Thanks
Vellocino
Albuquerque, NM, USA

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vellocino see pm

And here another one to look at

[Gran Sasso]

Another one

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nice yet another portrait

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another then

[Gran Sasso]

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[nas19]

Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter

The Cross of Honor of the German Mother


This award was instituted on 16 December 1938 as part of Hitler's initiative to encourage Aryan population growth.

Women of German origin qualified for such awards, though women from absorbed Germanic countries and areas (such as Austria, the Sudetenland and Danzig) were also eligible.

Eight or more would entitle the woman to a gold cross
six or seven for silver,
four or five for bronze.

The crosses were awarded annually on the second Sunday in May (Mothering Sunday), so despite its institution in 1938, the first awards were rendered in May 1939. The last awards were presented in 1944.

Magda Goebbels, the wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.[3] The couple had six children, and Magda was awarded the Silver Medal. In a cruel irony, Magda Goebbels murdered her children on 1 May 1945

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Ok and what point are you trying to make

[Andrew Harris]

Nice thread & nice portraits! Here is my one:

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That's a real nice looker the cross is great in detail on that picture

If that one even needs a new home i have a place for it

[tiomnajasila]

A topic to my heart gentlemen, very nice, very nice indeed!