The Hanseatic Cross (German: Hanseatenkreuz) was a military decoration of the three Hanseatic city-states of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were members...
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The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from...
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Wilhelm II (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
(Meiningen), 15 October 1917 Free Hanseatic Cities: Hanseatic Crosses, 15 October 1917 Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 2 April 1872...
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from 13th to 17th centuries. Originally, Hanseatic ships displayed red gonfalones on their masts, which had a cross at its peak to denote the protection of...
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Manfred von Richthofen (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Heroic Deed Brunswick War Merit Cross, 2nd Class Wound Badge, 3rd Class (1918) Hanseatic Crosses of the Three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and...
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Wilhelm Keitel (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Wehrmacht Battles/wars World War I World War II Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross Criminal conviction Criminal status Executed Conviction(s) Conspiracy...
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Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Cross for Merit in War (Meiningen) Free Hanseatic Cities: Hanseatic Crosses Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 22 March 1893 General...
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Ludwig Beck (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (German: [ˈluːt.vɪç bɛk] ; 29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the...
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Werner von Blomberg (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (2 September 1878 – 13 March 1946) was a German General Staff officer and the first Minister of War in Adolf Hitler's...
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Walter Stennes (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross)
of Hohenzollern. In 1918 he received the Lippe War Merit Cross, the Hanseatic Cross and the Silver Wound Badge. After leaving the army, Stennes held positions...
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Prince Leopold of Bavaria (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Order Free Hanseatic Cities: Hanseatic Crosses Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 13 January 1865 Military Merit Cross (1870/71), 17...
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its friends"). During World War I the Hanseatic Cross (German: Hanseatenkreuz) was awarded by the three Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck...
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Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Grand Cross, Order of the White Falcon (Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) House Order of Fidelity (Baden) Hanseatic Cross (Bremen) Grand Cross of the...
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Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (category Annulled Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
October 1915 Bremen: Hanseatic Cross, 31 December 1915 Hamburg: Hanseatic Cross, 18 November 1915 Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order...
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Franz von Hipper (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
including the Royal Saxon Order, the Order of Albrecht, and all three Hanseatic Crosses from Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg. The remainder of 1916 and through...
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Orders, decorations, and medals of the German Empire (section Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck)
Merit Cross Military Merit Cross Civil decorations Medal for Art and Science Military and war decorations Friedrich-Bathildis Medal Hanseatic Cross The...
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Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross)
Cross Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, with Swords Cross for Merit in War (Saxe-Meiningen) Hamburg: Hanseatic Cross...
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Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Knight's Cross with Swords, November 1915 Miscellaneous German Hanseatic Cross (Hamburg), 15 March 1916, after flying aerial...
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Felix von Luckner (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Battle of Jutland Commerce raiding campaign Awards Pour le Mérite Iron Cross 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Other work Sailor...
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The Hanseatic Cross (Hanseatenkreuz) was a decoration of the three Hanseatic city-states of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, who were members of the German...
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Otto von Stülpnagel (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Stülpnagel could reward French cooperation by allowing people and goods to cross military checkpoints, or he could seal the borders and bring the French...
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Fedor von Bock (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
(Austria, 9 February 1917) Military Merit Cross, 2nd class (Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 3 August 1917) Hanseatic Crosses of Hamburg (19 September 1917) and Bremen...
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Henning von Holtzendorff (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Swords (Bavaria) Hanseatic Crosses of Bremen and Hamburg Grand Cross of the Order of the Griffon (Mecklenburg) Honorary Grand Cross of the House and Merit...
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Karl von Bülow (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Lübeck))
Order of the Medjidie, 2nd class (Ottoman Empire) Iron Cross of 1914, 1st class Hanseatic Cross (Lübeck) Pour le Mérite (4 April 1915) Grand Commander...
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Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Lübeck))
promoted to the rank of Generaloberst and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Until the end of 1943 Stumpff commanded Luftflotte 5, with which...
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Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
buried in the Holzminden Cemetery. Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (30 April 1940)[citation needed] Grand Cross with Swords of the Order of the White Rose...
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Friedrich Fromm (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
best for Germany." Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class 1st Class Wound Badge (1914) in Black Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918...
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Ewald von Lochow (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Lübeck))
of the Crown Order of the Zähringer Lion Order of Albert the Bear Hanseatic Cross Lübeck Order of the Red Eagle Bavarian Military Merit Order Albert...
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Curt Rothenberger (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross)
served in a field artillery unit on the western front, earned the Hanseatic Cross and was discharged at the end of the war with the rank of Leutnant...
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Alfred von Tirpitz (category Recipients of the Hanseatic Cross (Bremen))
Merit Order Bremen: Hanseatic Cross Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order Hesse and by Rhine: Grand Cross of the Merit Order...
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