Hohenzollern Grand Commanders Breast Star (Out Of Stock)
GIAW-040
$44.95
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Reproduction Hohenzollern Grand Commander's Breast Star. one of the highest awards bestowed on senior officers and only awarded to personnel who previously received the Black Eagle Order. The award with swords recipients would have already received all other higher wartime awards including the Pour le Merite. It could only be topped by the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. This award was rarely bestowed. Of the ten recipients from 1861 to 1868 (two with swords and eight with out) are to be found Prince Carl Anton von Hohenzollern, the princes Karl and Friedrich Karl von Prussia, Field Marshal Graf von Wrangel and Reichskanzler Bismarck who also received the award in diamonds. In the First World War approximately five Grand Commander's Stars with Swords were awarded including Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Field Marshal von Mackensen.