Around 20 years ago , I bought these Police award document and awards to a Lorenz Geyer in the 8./SS-Polizei Schuetzen Regiment 2. Interesting for me was the fact , that the Cousin of my Mother had served in the 12./SS-Polizei Schuetzen Regiment 1 at the same time . As I understand it , these units served at the Russian front around Leningrad and suffered high losses .

..and a close-up.

.and lower section .

Close up of the Iron Cross 2nd Class that came with the award . Sorry , no hmk on the ring .

Here now the 2nd award set to Lorenz Geyer.

..and close up of the upper section .

..and close up of the lower section . Document is signed by Oberst Freitag .

..and close up of the ink cancel .SS has been inked into the cancel by hand .

Here now the awarded 'Silber Infanterie- Sturmabzeichen' that came with the document. It is a silvered and frosted type ;-- not much left of the frosted finish .

..and the backside , a semi-hollowed back .Sorry, no hmk again .

When I looked at the back a little closer , I found that Lorenz had inscribed it with a sharp needle .
This side reads :" SS Pol. DIV. 8 Komp."

..and the other side reads :
" Gegen Leningr.Ostfront "

One more piece of paper came with this group ; a SS-leave pass . Someone told me this was for training school near Prague, Czechoslovakia .

Now some award documents and awards to my Dad : Oberltn.Heinz Ostermann who served with the Volunteer Police Bataillon 8 Croatia .
First his War Service Cross with Swords 2nd Class award.

...and close-up of the upper section of his document .

..and the lower section . The document was signed by Police General Kammenhofer .

.and the awarded cross on his dress medal bar .

The 2nd award document to my Dad was for the Croatian Bravery medal in 'Bronze'.
I have xerox copies of photos of the award ceremony at the castle in Nice, Croatia.They show some Croatian Generals and what I pressume was Police General Kammenhofer.

..and again the upper section of the document . By-the-way , Joe Wotka has a similar document to an EM -Policeman from the same unit my Dad was an officer of.

Sorry , here the document .

..and the lower section again . Again signed by Police General Kammenhofer .

..and again the award on Dad's dress medal bar .

Now his award for the Iron Cross 2nd class , which I had to 'recreate' , since the origonal , given to him by General Pannwitz in person , was destroyed by him there in Croatia at surrender time to Tito's partisans along with his Dienstpass with the SS-runes on the front .Anything like that document ( the 2 other ones and the medals he had sent home ) and anything showing the SS-runes were not a good thing to keep at that time !.

Here his dress medal bar again .
Now I like to invite others to show their POLICE award documents and fitting medals !

Bernd, great documents and medals. Thanks for showing them. Do you have any photos of your dad in uniform that you can show? I ****s he couldn't keep the Dienstpass or other documents but, under the circumstances completely understandable.

Bernd, A Wonderful & Historically Significant Display. It's great that your family was able to preserve a number of his awards, decoration and the uniform! Living history.... Dave/dblmed

Raymond : I had posted about my Dad with photos on this forum under : " Oblt. Heinz Ostermann " , --but can't find it anywhere !!
Dave : Thanks for your kind remarks .
Here now a award document for the gilt Police long service medal .

..close-up upper section.

..and lower section.

Close-up of the embossed eagle .

..and close-up of a certain person's signature .

The awarded medal.

Award Document for the German Annexation of Czechoslovakia . dated 1.OKTOBER 1939.

..and upper part of the document.

..and the lower section again .

Nice embossed seal .

And a nice embossed seal .

.and signature of " Theissner"

..and here the awarded medal again .

Award document for the "Deutsche Volkspflege Medaille " ; medal for Social Welfare service. don't know how a policeman would have qualified for this .

Upper section .

Sorry , here the correct one .

Lower section.

..and close-up of the nice embossed eagle again .

The awarded type of medal again .

Award document for the War Service Cross 2nd --no swords this time !

Upper section close-up again .

..and lower section close-up again .

This embossed eagle was super nice on this document .

Bernd, thanks for taking the time to post all those pictures of the various polizei document/award groupings! Very interesting material to review.

One thing I always check out is the myriad of circle stamps used and that Polizei-Regiment 2 is rather interesting where it appears the SS was added by hand after changing designation.

Very interesting material, thanks for sharing!

Excellent documents and medals: thanks so much for sharing them with us!

BTW we have included a 51-page chapter on medals, decorations and badges worn by the Police in Volume 2 of "Uniforms Organization and History of the German Police" and I hope this will at least in part satisfy the just demands of this Forum!

Roger Bender is burning the midnight oil to get Volume 2 ready, and it is expected to exceed 800 pages.

hpt

quote:

Originally posted by hpt:

BTW we have included a 51-page chapter on medals, decorations and badges worn by the Police in Volume 2 of "Uniforms Organization and History of the German Police" and I hope this will at least in part satisfy the just demands of this Forum!

Roger Bender is burning the midnight oil to get Volume 2 ready, and it is expected to exceed 800 pages.

hpt

That is excellent news!!!

The Infantry Assult document is signed by later Knight's Cross holder Fritz Freitag. He also served as the second Ia of Polizei Division (after Walter Krüger).

Mark : Thanks for the info . Bernd.