Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Prussian Order of the Red Eagle and Order of the Crown group of seven awarded to Feuerwerks-Kapitän Ernst Johannes Weise, German Imperial Navy

Germany, Prussia, Order of the Red Eagle, 4th type, 4th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, cross with stippled arms; Order of the Crown, 2nd type, 4th Class breast badge, gilt metal and enamel; Cross of Merit for War Aid, grey metal; War Commemorative Medal 1870-71, non-combatants, steel; China Medal 1900-01, non-combatants, steel; Officer’s Long Service Cross, for 25 Years, gilt metal; Centenary Medal 1897, gilt metal, mounted German style as worn; together with Colonial Decoration, silvered bronze, pin-backed; ‘Marineverein Lehe’ Badge, enamelled, pin-backed; Imperial German Navy waist-belt clasp (no female fitting) and button, gilt, good very fine and better (11) £450-550

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine collection of awards for the Boxer Rebellion 1900.

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Ernst Johannes Weise was born c.1850. He entered the Imperial Navy, probably as a Schiffsjunge (Boy Entrant) c.1866. Specialising in the ‘Feuerwerks’ (Ordnance) branch of the Imperial Navy, he was commissioned an Feuerwerks-Lieutnant on 14 April 1891 and was advanced to Feuerwerks Premier Lieutnant on 10 December 1894; Feuerwerks-Hauptmann on 19 December 1898; and Feuerwerks-Kapitänleutnant c.1899. He retired with the rank of Feuerwerks-Kapitän c.1910. He was re-employed as a Marineoberzahlmeister c.1918.

Sold with a number of original documents: (i) Order of the Red Eagle, 4th Class bestowal document, dated Berlin, 18 January 1906, to Feuerwerks-Kapitänleutnant Weise, of the Dockyard, Kiel; (ii) Order of the Crown, 4th Class bestowal document, dated Berlin, 18 January 1900, to Feuerwerks-Kapitanleutnant Weise, of the Artllerie Depot, Wilhelmshaven; (iii) Cross of Merit for War Aid bestowal document, dated Berlin, 24 August 1917, to Feuerwerkskapitän Weise, of Keil; (iv) Franco-Prussian War Medal certificate, dated Kiel, 22 September 1872, to Matrosen 2nd Class Weise, 1st Matrosen Division; (v) China War Medal certificate, dated Berlin, 2 November 1901, to Feuerwerks Kapitanleutnant Weise; (vi) Officer’s L.S. Cross certificate, dated Berlin, 5 June 1891, to Feuerwerks-Lieutnant Weise; (vii) Centenary Medal certificate, to Feuerwerks Premier Lieutnant Weise; (viii) Colonial Decoration certificate, dated Berlin, 22 March 1922, to Marineoberzahlmeister Weise, issued by the Chief of Naval Administration, Kiautchou Department - awarded for service in the former German naval base at Kiautchou, China, prior to the Great War; with a letter forwarding the certificate and informing him of the supplier and price of the badge; (ix-xi) promotion documents, from Ober-Feuerwerker to Feuerwerks-Lieutnant; another, from Feuerwerks Lieutnant to Feuerwerks Premier Lieutnant; another, from Feuerwerks Premier Lieutnant to Feuerwerks Hauptmann - this with signature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. With translations and research.