A79 Orden & Militaria

| 429 Extraordinarily well-preserved deluxe presentation sword, presumably bestowed on the occasion of the completion of their common military training in 1906. Hilmar Freiherr vonMinnigerode (1885 - 1914) was accepted as Ensign to the Guard Jäger Battalion in Potsdam in 1906 and, like Friedrich Wilhelm von Chappuis in 1907, was promoted to Lieutenant with commission dated 14 June 1905. Shortly after the beginning of World War I he was severely wounded near La-Ville-aux-Bois on 20 Septem- ber 1914 (with 87 soldiers deceased and 143 wounded, the Guard Jäger Battalion sustained heavy casualties) and succumbed to his injuries on 10 October 1914. Friedrich Wilhelm von Chappuis (1886 - 1942) joined the Guard Gren- 3788 adier Regiment No. 5 as Ensign in 1906, became Lieutenant in 1907, 1st Lieutenant and company commander in 1914, and Captain in 1915. In 1919, he was accepted to the Reichswehr as company chief in the Rifle Regiment No. 4. In 1938, he became Major General and chief of the general staff of the XIV Army Corps and was awarded the Knight’s Cross to the Iron Cross 1939 on 15 August 1940 as Lieutenant General and commander of the 16th ID (mot.). In 1941, he was promoted to General of the Infantry and appointed commanding general of the XXXVIII Army Corps. His relief and redeployment to the Führer Reserve in April 1942 hit him so hard that he committed suicide four months later. 253346 I - II € 6.500