Unik dokument/medaljgrupp från Första världskriget, Weimarrepubliken och andra världskriget. Köptes av mig i Tyskland under en resa för snart 20 år sedan.

Synnerligen omfattande dokumentation med medaljurkunder, soldatbok, avskedspapper från försvaret efter första världskriget, befordran under Weimarperioden och ytterligare medaljering under andra världskriget.

Önskas ytterligare bilder på medaljer eller dokument, maila mig.

Skickas väl förpackat, med fördel med försäkrad post.

För ca 15 år sedan fick jag hjälp att tyda del av dokumentationen:

”Eckhardt Fritz Hans Steinfatt was born 22 December 1896 in Schwerin. Served from 21.3.16 (which is odd, because his local draft board review of 9.8.14 had passed him as
fit all around to be a One Year Volunteer) as an Abitur holder, and was
commissioned as a Leutnant der Reserve 11.1.18 in the prestigious Garde
Grenadier Regiment 4. (Which is VERY odd, since his father Karl was a
serving Eisenbahnassistent, or roughly a Lieutenant... presumably an
ex-NCO ”up from the ranks” and not the sort of ”class” OR income one
would expect for the Guards!

EK2 2.5.17
EK1 22.4.18
Black Wound Badge 10. 9. 18 (wounded by
artillery shell splinter in the right upper arm, right lower arm, and
hand on 2.6.18)
Mecklenburg Schwerin Friedrich Franz Cross 2nd 16.3.18
most interesting, from his native state, the ”MK1”
on the day AFTER the war ended.

Since he had been discharged 17.12.18, it took until late January 1919, what with the war lost, the Kaiser gone, Red revolutionaries in the streets and so on, for the Mecklenburg
1st Class award with document to be forwarded on to him at home,
17.1.19. (I like Company Commander Lt dR Furth's jotted ”Congrats and
howyadoon” down there on the lower left... Official Paperwork much...
more casual in those strange times!

Oberzollsekretär = Leutnant. He was advanced to Zollinspektor (=
Oberleutnant) 31.12.24. Bezirk Zollkommissar (7.4.31) was equivalent of a
Hauptmann/ Captain.”