Deutsches Reich

Large order estate of Lieutenant General Otto Wilhelm Butze, a) eight-part order clasp, including Iron Cross 1914 2nd class, Bavarian Military Order of Merit 4th class with swords, Hessian Ernst Ludwig medal for bravery, Hamburg Hanseatic Cross for bravery, honorary cross for front-line fighters (Glaser & Söhne, Dresden), Wehrmacht service award for 25 years, Wehrmacht service award for 12 years and Bulgarian military order for bravery, IV. b) two matching field clasps (six- and nine-piece), c) Iron Cross 1939 2nd class, on original ribbon, d) War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords in original paper bag (Wilhelm Deumer Lüdenscheid), e) Wounded Badge WW I and WW II, f) pair of epaulettes and pair of collar patches Lieutenant General Army and g) extensive group of documents with ten associated award certificates, nine appointment certificates between 1911 and 1943 as well as other documents (including certificates, discharge certificate from 1947), including appointment certificate for Major dated 1. March 1933 with original signatures of Paul Hindenburg (1847-1937, German Field Marshal and Reich President) and Werner von Blomberg (1878-1946 Nuremberg, Reichswehr Minister from 1933 to 1938, Reich War Minister from 1935 and first Field Marshal from 1936), certificate of appointment as Lieutenant Colonel dated September 1, 1935 with original signatures of Paul Hindenburg (1847-1937, German Field Marshal and Reich President).September 1935 with original signatures of Adolf Hitler and Werner von Blomberg (1878-1946 Nuremberg, Reichswehr Minister from 1933 to 1938, Reich Minister of War from 1935 and Field Marshal General from 1936) and certificate of appointment as Lieutenant Colonel dated February 28, 1938 with original signatures of Adolf Hitler and Werner von Blomberg (1878-1946 Nuremberg, Reichswehr Minister from 1933 to 1938, Reichswehr Minister of War from 1935 and Field Marshal General from 1936). February 1938 with original signatures of Adolf Hitler and Walther von Brauchitsch (1891 - 1948, Field Marshal General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army from 1938 to 1941), including photo of Lieutenant Otto Butze, mostly good to very good condition, Military Order of Merit from a) damaged on the right arm of the cross, in this extent and condition probably unique estate of great rarity 0669 Otto Wilhelm Butze was born in 1891 as son of the Royal Prussian Privy Government Councillor Johann Franz Wilhelm Butze in Arolsen, he obtained his officer's commission in 1912 in the Lauenburg Jägerbataillon 9 and became captain and commander of the Infantry Regiment 78 in 1922, in the staff of the 6th Army Corps in Münster. He continued his career from 1933 from Major to Lieutenant General Prov.: Lieutenant General Otto Wilhelm Butze, owned by his descendants