Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic white embroidery on blue wool

white embroidery on blue wool

and by 1899 rose to become Chief of Staff of the Ingenieurkorps under Generalleutnant Colmar von der Goltz

the central applique slightly loose

Footnote: The emblem of Guatemala was designed by Swiss artist and engraver Johan-Baptist Frener

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A U-Boat War Badge, by E. Ferdinand Wiedmann Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic white embroidery on blue wool(U Boot Kriegsabzeichen). Constructed of gilded zink, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, overlaid by a central U Boat situated over a hollow void, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a flat wire catch emanating from a circular base, maker marked with the logo of E. Ferdinand Wiedmann, Frankfurt, measuring