Women wearing the mutterkreuz

[Greg]

Here are a couple of photos with minis in wear.

Best,
Greg

[Greg]

..

[BlackWatch1]

[IMG][/IMG]

[Tomoko]

Here is my only one - sadly have to put it on estand...

Hello,

May i ask where you got this one from? Because this is my great grandmother and i have the same picture along others & her Mutterkreuz.

[Edelweisse]

WOW....small world....that it too cool. Is one of the children in the picture your Mom or Dad?

[Brig]

I notice the majority of the women in these images are rather old...was this not a popular award with younger mothers?

[Edelweisse]

Here is a picture of a younger mother of 5...note she's wearing a BRONZE Mother's Cross and her husband is Customs. I have the "framed" large photo that I bought in the Homburg/Saar flea market (Germany) years ago.

[BlackWatch1]

[BlackWatch1]

[Tomoko]

WOW....small world....that it too cool. Is one of the children in the picture your Mom or Dad?

The woman in the picture is my great grandmother Elisabeth.
I'm really surprised how this picture ended up with a collector here, i got the same one so of course i don't mind this member having one too.

Small world indeed

[Tomoko]

I notice the majority of the women in these images are rather old...was this not a popular award with younger mothers?

In the case of my great grandmother (seen in post by Michael73) she received the Bronze one and most women around my town who received it during one event, they were pretty old too. I don't know why this is exactly but i imagine it appears to be mostly older women because they already had their children many years ago.
My great grandmother on the picture had her last kid in 1919.

[Shurtugal]

I notice the majority of the women in these images are rather old...was this not a popular award with younger mothers?

The reason why you most often see elderly women bearing the cross is a result of several factors:

1) Because of the huge amount of potential candidates and too little time to select them, (in Nuremberg there were over 160.000 potential candidates) most towns and cities decided to award mothers over the age of 60-70 years in the first years.

2) The birth rate declined rather than increased during the war, therefore it is natural that elder women with many children were awarded more crosses than the younger women.

3) Nazi leader**** saw it as essential to honour the older mothers first as well, because they were the reason Germany had so many great, aryan soldiers. Better to honour those women first, than to start from the bottom and have many of the older women die before they could get their cross.

If you are interested in learning more about the Mother's cross, I suggest the following books:

Irmgard Weyrather - Muttertag und Mutterkreuz
Jill Stephenson - Mutterkreuz und Arbeitsbuch
Michelle Mouton - From Nurturing the Nation to purifying the Volk

Have a great day!

[BlackWatch1]

Not very clear but I thought I'd share it anyway