Germany, Federal Republic. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross with Case, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval c. 1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on a 42 mm pin

on a 42 mm pin

Currently it is conferred upon Spanish and foreign citizens for extremely meritorious domestic and foreign service to Spain

A pair of First World War combat awards

1920 in Cordingen (today a part of Bomlitz as Borg/Cordingen)

born 14 April 1918 in Galicia

Germany, Federal Republic. A German Social Welfare Decoration, I Class Cross with Case, Exhibition Example by Rudolf Souval c. 1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on a 42 mm pinEhrenzeichen fr deutsche Volkspflege I. Klasse mit Etui, Museumsstck). Constructed of gilded bronze with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Geneva Cross with white enameled arms, the obverse bearing a central raised NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, executed in black enamels with gilt highlights, the twelve oclock arm topped by an eyelet and loop retaining a ribbed suspension ring with an oak leaf