✚8191✚ German post WW2 1957 pattern Riding Badge Das Reiterabzeichen BRONZE Gold Donation Commemorative Token of

Gold Donation Commemorative Token of the Imperial Bank (Golderinnerungsmünze der Reichsbank) - Gold Donation Commemorative Token was issued in 1916 under the nationwide propaganda campaign entitled “I Give Gold for Iron” (“Gold gab ich für Eisen”)

submitted the name Bundeswehr for the new forces

a cross pattée in gold thread to either side

Army (Heer) and air force (Luftwaffe) junior officers' insignia are four pointed silver stars while field grade officers wear silver (black or white on camouflage uniforms) stars and a laurel wreath around the lowest star

Six persons received two Knights Cross' of the War Merit Cross (one with Swords and one without Swords): Walter Brugmann

✚8191✚ German post WW2 1957 pattern Riding Badge Das Reiterabzeichen BRONZE Gold Donation Commemorative Token ofOriginal post WW2 (1957 pattern) German Riding Badge (Das Reiterabzeichen) in Bronze on its original carton with matching stickpin NICE EXAMPLE, MINT CONDITION, A FINE DETAILED PIECE WITH ATTRACTIVE FINISH, SIZE: cca 65 x 45 mm, RARE BADGE FEW FACTS ABOUT 1957 PATTERN AWARDS: In 1957 the West German government authorised replacement Iron Crosses with an Oak Leaf Cluster in place of the swastika, similar to the Iron Crosses of 1813, 1870, and 1914,