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Hi Guys found these pictures while looking for a picture of a E-Boat silver badge with diamonds hav'nt found one yet I had one of these badges in my hand a few years ago. Anyway to the pictures the 1st one belonged to Admiral Donitz, the 2nd and 3rd were awarded to KapitanLeutnants.

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I only have ever seen one absolute authentic U-boat one with certificates and all in private hands.

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Hi RAF.......All together there were 29 recipients of the U-Boat war badge with Diamonds this is a full list.

1. Fregatten Albert. Brandi.

2. KorvettenKapitan Heinrich. Bleichrodt.

3. KorvettenKapitan Otto Von Bulow.

4. Admiral Karl Donitz ( Special Grade ).

5. KorvettenKapitan Carl Emmermann. 1st Oct 1943.

6. Kapitanleutnant Engelbert. Endrass. 18th July 1941.

7. Kapitanleutnant Friedrich. Guggenberger.

8. KorvettenKapitan Robert. Gysae.

9. KorvettenKapitan Reinhard. Hardegen. 7th May 1942.

10. Kapitan Zur See Werner. Hartman.

 

 

11. KorvettenKapitan Werner Henke.

12. FregattenKapitan Otto. Kretschmer.

13. Kapitanleutnant Hans-Gunther Lange.

14. KorvettenKapitan Georg. Lassen.

15. FregattenKapitan Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock.

16. FregattenKapitan Heinrich. Liebe

17. Kapitan Zur See Wolfgang. Luth.

18. KorvettenKapitan Johann. Mohr.

19. Kapitanleutnant Rolf. Mutzelburg.

20. Kapitan Zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten. 30th Jan 1943.

21. KorvettenKapitan Gunther Prien.

22. Kapitanleutnant Joachim Schepke.

23.KorvettenKapitan Adalbert. Schnee.

24. Kapitan Zur See Klaus. Scholtz.

25. Kapitan Zur See Viktor Schutze.

26. KorvettenKapitan Herbert Schultze.15th July 1941.

27. FregattenKapitan Reinhard Suhren. 31st Dec 1941.

28. Kapitanleutnant Rolf. Thomsen.

29. FregattenKapitan Erich. Top. 11th Apr 1942.

 

 

Some Famous names there.

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don't know who it was issued to as it was lurking about on another forum somewhere, for all we know it could of been fake though, it seemed real though.

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Very rare badge probably worth about £30,000 ,talking of rare badges we had a customer in with a Blue Max on Saturday, unfortunately he was not selling it :(

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A real blue max? I'd die just to hold one of those!

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Yes it was quite a cool feeling, first real one I have held too :)

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Yes it was quite a cool feeling, first real one I have held too :)

 

 

kenny do you still get the butterflies when handling the rare. i forgot to thank you and steve for letting me handle the gold cross

i know its not rare to yous guys but a first for me. made my week

 

the best thing about the shop rather than a website -handling the goods

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Hi Alex, yes when you get a nice item in you can still get the butterflies ,the German Cross you handled gave me the butterflies ,I would have loved to have kept it for myself but you can't keep everything :(

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  • 5 years later...

I think you mean Reinhard Hardegen (9). The last politician with a Knight's Cross - Reinhard Hardegen, now 103 - was for over 20 years CDU Bürgerschaftsabgeordenter in Bremen. He went into politics after the war because he meant, "We were of the opinion that there were too many Sozis in Bremen, and we wanted to change that..." At the age of 70 he started touring the world, visiting over 100 countries, he sailed around Australia, travelled to the North Pole with a Russian icebreaker, with a sleigh to the South Pole and crossed the North West Passage.

 

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/reinhard-hardegen-wird-103-jahre-alt-14131021.html

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