Can you please help me to ID the awards on Warzecha's ribbon bar?
Thanks.
1st row:
- Spange zum EK 2. Klasse
- Ritterkreuz des Kgl. Preuß. Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern
- Ritterkreuz 2. Klasse des Herzogl. Sachsen-Ernestinischen Hausordens mit Schwertern
- Großherzoglich Oldenburgisches Friedrich August-Kreuz 2. Klasse ???
- Hamburgisches Hanseatenkreuz ???
- Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer
2nd row:
- Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung 1. Klasse
- Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung 3. Klasse
- Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1 Oktober 1938 (Sudetenland Medaille) ???
- ???
- Memel Medaille ???
Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
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Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
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Re: Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
On the top row, #4 and #5 are indeed Oldenburg and Hamburg.
On the bottom row, I think #3 is the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen 2.Klasse, which Warzecha received on 15.1.1937, but the image is not clear enough.
On the bottom row, I think #3 is the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen 2.Klasse, which Warzecha received on 15.1.1937, but the image is not clear enough.
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Re: Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
Dave Danner wrote: On the bottom row, I think #3 is the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen 2.Klasse, which Warzecha received on 15.1.1937, but the image is not clear enough.
I think so, Dave. Do you know if Warzecha received any foreign decoration? I remember a very blurry pic with a breast star grand cross (maybe Italian Crown Order or Hungarian Merit Order), but I lose it and I'm not sure.
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Re: Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
I don't know of any other foreign awards.
If the last ribbon is the Memelland Medal, then the ribbon before it has to be German. Indeed, according to regulations the only ones that would fit between the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen 2.Klasse and the Memelland Medal would be the Anschluss and Sudeten Medals. So maybe it is a Sudeten, with the red of the ribbon turned dark in the black&white photo.
If the last ribbon is something foreign, like the German-Italian Commemorative Medal, then any number of foreign decorations are a possibility.
If the last ribbon is the Memelland Medal, then the ribbon before it has to be German. Indeed, according to regulations the only ones that would fit between the Olympia-Ehrenzeichen 2.Klasse and the Memelland Medal would be the Anschluss and Sudeten Medals. So maybe it is a Sudeten, with the red of the ribbon turned dark in the black&white photo.
If the last ribbon is something foreign, like the German-Italian Commemorative Medal, then any number of foreign decorations are a possibility.
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Re: Generaladmiral Walter Warzecha: Ribbon bar ID
Last 3 ribbons look like:
Olympia-Ehrenzeichen
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes 1939
Olympia-Ehrenzeichen
Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938
Medaille zur Erinnerung an die Heimkehr des Memellandes 1939