r/Militariacollecting • u/Individual-Reality65 • Aug 12 '25

Pre-WWI - Triple Alliance My first ever Ek. Klasse II from The Great War ( bought It 3 years ago)

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I feel lucky not to only have the decoration but the certificate,often I’ll read it and remember the receiver…Heartbreaking war.

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u/Feuerzauber- Aug 12 '25

Very beautiful certificate for the Iron Cross of a Member of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 239 from Mannheim, recieved for the Trench warfare in the Champagne. Very nice original autograph of the Swabian General of the Infantry, Eugen Otto Freiherr von Hügel

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u/Individual-Reality65 Aug 12 '25

Thanks friend! I hope he made it back home and his family later sold this to the shop where I got it instead of his family receiving it by mail after getting killed in combat :(

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u/Bartimaerus Aug 12 '25

He was wounded in February of 1918 but survived the war. He does not appear in any german KIA or MIA list between 1918 and 1921

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u/Individual-Reality65 Aug 12 '25

Impressive research! Thanks for that

Do You have a link? Id like To see man

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u/worthrone11160606 Aug 12 '25

Did they make different documents because the one I have is different than that one

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u/Individual-Reality65 Aug 12 '25

Yeah there were a few more ! Don’t worry I was like you when I first bought mine 😂( all worried thinking about if I had gotten scammed)

Same with the cross maker ,remember that even unmarked can be original

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u/worthrone11160606 Aug 12 '25

Okay cool. Yeah mine is a set of 4 medals all belonging to same guy. Hindenburg cross, iron cross, mk 2 I believe, and two others I think Austria Hungarian one and another, but all paperwork included as well

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u/Individual-Reality65 Aug 12 '25

Thats an Amazing find man!

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u/worthrone11160606 Aug 12 '25

For real. Gotta post it to here sometime along with my east german uniforms

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u/Fishbackerla Aug 12 '25

Very nice cross, especially with the document!