Deutsches Reich
Repeat clasp 1939 for the Iron Cross 1st Class 1914, silver-plated metal, 31 x 45 mm, weight 9.8 gr, with award certificate for the colonel and commander of the Infantry Regiment 78 dated July 16, 1941 (in the field). July 1941 (in the field), badge (award copy) very good condition, certificate with centerfold and staple mark top left 0671 Otto Wilhelm Butze was born 1891 as son of the Royal Prussian Privy Councillor Johann Franz Wilhelm Butze in Arolsen, he received his officer's commission 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, property of the descendants
