✚8191✚ German post WW2 1957 pattern Riding Badge Das Reiterabzeichen BRONZE submitted the name Bundeswehr for

submitted the name Bundeswehr for the new forces

10th edition

Army (Heer) and air force (Luftwaffe) junior officers' insignia are four pointed silver stars while field grade officers wear silver (black or white on camouflage uniforms) stars and a laurel wreath around the lowest star

becoming the first class of the award and the existing Landwehr-Dienstauszeichnung became the second class

since there were few in service who held the 1870 Iron Cross

✚8191✚ German post WW2 1957 pattern Riding Badge Das Reiterabzeichen BRONZE submitted the name Bundeswehr forOriginal post WW2 (1957 pattern) German Riding Badge (Das Reiterabzeichen) in Bronze on its original carton with matching stickpin NICE EXAMPLE, MINT CONDITION, A FINE DETAILED PIECE WITH ATTRACTIVE FINISH, SIZE: cca 65 x 45 mm, RARE BADGE FEW FACTS ABOUT 1957 PATTERN AWARDS: In 1957 the West German government authorised replacement Iron Crosses with an Oak Leaf Cluster in place of the swastika, similar to the Iron Crosses of 1813, 1870, and 1914,