Lot 6156
General Gerhard Tappen - A cased Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves
Orders and Military Collectibles until 1918 | A109m | Live auction | 1502 Lots
Description
Hollow gold cross on a baroque loop, blue enamelled on both sides, with steam holes in the cross arms. Unsigned. 52.8 mm wide, weight with oak leaves 18.7 gr. The oak leaves of hollow-struck gilt silver. A circa 62 cm long customised ribbon section, black woven with three wide silver stripes and sewn press studs. In a dark leather case of the Ordenskanzlei with corresponding label and numbering on the underside. Additionally, a large portrait photograph of Tappen. The highest and, with 122 awards, one of the rarest awards. Dietrich Gerhard Emil Theodor Tappen (1866 - 1953): 1885 Fahnenjunker, 1886 Sekondeleutnant, 1893 Premierleutnant, 1897 seconded to the Great General Staff, 1901 battery commander in FAR 8, 1904 adjutant in the general staff of the 16th Division, 1906 Major, 1909 chief of general staff of the XVII. Armee-Korps, 1910 head of department in the Great General Staff, 1912 Lieutenant Colonel, at the outbreak of war in 1914 at the Supreme Army Command (OHL) as head of the operations department in the general staff of the field army. Pour le Mérite on 11.09.1915. Oak leaves on 27.01.16. 1916 Major General and chief of staff of Army Group Mackensen in Romania. Thereafter Commander of the 5th Replacement Division, 1917 Commander of the 15th ID. In 1939 he received the honorary rank (Charakter) of General of ArtilleryCondition: II + Questions about the lot?
