Generalmajor Eitel-Friedrich Roediger von Manteuffel - an award group Iron Cross 1st class, magnetic

Generalmajor Eitel-Friedrich Roediger von Manteuffel - an award group Iron Cross 1st class, magnetic iron core, multi-piece construction, slightly vaulted with silver hallmark "800" on the needle, Prussian pilots badge marked "C.E. Juncker, Berlin". Seven place medal bar, Iron cross 2nd class, Bavarian military merit order 4th class with swords, Baden House Order of Zähringer Lion, knight 2nd class with swords, Frontkämpfer Honour Cross 1934, Wehrmacht long service medal 4 years Luftwaffe branch, Hungarian and Bulgarian World war commemorative medal 18.6 cm long with a blue woollen backing (some mothing). Also included is a 1930 U. S. Department of Commerce authorized I.D. card that "Eitel F. R. van Manteuffel" is a licensed "TRANSPORT PILOT of civil aircraft of the United States".Born in Rastatt in 1895, Roediger was appointed as a personal page to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in 1913. In 1914, several months before the outbreak of WWI, he joined the 1st Badische Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 and served in the field following the start of hostilities. By February 1915, he was training as an Aerial Observer and during the remainder of the war became a pilot - with a confirmed "kill", squadron leader, instructor, Air Park Commander and served on the General Staff for Air Operations. Von Manteuffel stayed in the service until 1920 when he retired. He was called back into service in 1936 and during the Third-Reich held various command positions, including Generalmajor and commander of the Luftwaffe forces in Romania in 1944. On 28 August 1944, von Manteuffel became a Soviet war prisoner from which he was released on 3 January 1950. He died in Wiesbaden on 3 July 1984. USA-Los, Versand aus den USA Zustand: II + Generalmajor Eitel-Friedrich Roediger von Manteuffel - an award group Iron Cross 1st class, magnetic iron core, multi-piece construction, slightly vaulted with silver hallmark "800" on the needle, Prussian pilots badge marked "C.E. Juncker, Berlin". Seven place medal bar, Iron cross 2nd class, Bavarian military merit order 4th class with swords, Baden House Order of Zähringer Lion, knight 2nd class with swords, Frontkämpfer Honour Cross 1934, Wehrmacht long service medal 4 years Luftwaffe branch, Hungarian and Bulgarian World war commemorative medal 18.6 cm long with a blue woollen backing (some mothing). Also included is a 1930 U. S. Department of Commerce authorized I.D. card that "Eitel F. R. van Manteuffel" is a licensed "TRANSPORT PILOT of civil aircraft of the United States".Born in Rastatt in 1895, Roediger was appointed as a personal page to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia in 1913. In 1914, several months before the outbreak of WWI, he joined the 1st Badische Leib-Grenadier-Regiment No. 109 and served in the field following the start of hostilities. By February 1915, he was training as an Aerial Observer and during the remainder of the war became a pilot - with a confirmed "kill", squadron leader, instructor, Air Park Commander and served on the General Staff for Air Operations. Von Manteuffel stayed in the service until 1920 when he retired. He was called back into service in 1936 and during the Third-Reich held various command positions, including Generalmajor and commander of the Luftwaffe forces in Romania in 1944. On 28 August 1944, von Manteuffel became a Soviet war prisoner from which he was released on 3 January 1950. He died in Wiesbaden on 3 July 1984. USA-Los, Versand aus den USA Condition: II +