1914 Iron Cross 2.Klasse Without Band With Manufacturer 81302

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Conservation:
good condition
empire,
Iron Cross 2nd Class without Ribbon
Manufacturer M - BH Mayer, Pforzheim
The Iron Cross (EK) was an originally Prussian, later German, war decoration awarded by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. on the 10th March 1813 in Breslau for the course of the wars of liberation in three classes. Friedrich Wilhelm III awarded the first Iron Cross. personally his deceased wife Luise posthumously.
The foundation of the Iron Cross was repeated by King Wilhelm I of Prussia with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War on 19. July 1870. Kaiser Wilhelm II renewed in his capacity as Prussian king on 8. August 1914 again the foundation and made the Iron Cross a quasi-German order through its broad-based awarding practice. With the fourth foundation at the beginning of the Second World War by the National Socialist dictator Adolf Hitler, the Iron Cross was awarded on 1. September 1939 also officially to a German award, which should initially be awarded in four classes.
First World War
The third foundation of the EK took Wilhelm II. at the outbreak of World War I on Aug. August 1914 before. Holders of the EK from 1870 received according to the order of 4 June 1915 as a (renewed) award on the ribbon above the silver oak leaves (on the 25th Victory Day) to wear silver clasp with a reduced EK with the year 1914.
Overview of the foundation data
From 1813
From 1813 to 1918, three ascending levels were distinguished:
Iron Cross II. Class (EK II) (with black and white ribbon)
Iron Cross 1st Class (EK I) (with black and white ribbon and pectoral cross (1813, see above), or plug-in cross)
Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Necklace)
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The foundation of the Iron Cross was repeated by King Wilhelm I of Prussia with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War on 19. July 1870. Kaiser Wilhelm II renewed in his capacity as Prussian king on 8. August 1914 again the foundation and made the Iron Cross a quasi-German order through its broad-based awarding practice. With the fourth foundation at the beginning of the Second World War by the National Socialist dictator Adolf Hitler, the Iron Cross was awarded on 1. September 1939 also officially to a German award, which should initially be awarded in four classes. The third foundation of the EK took Wilhelm II. at the outbreak of World War I on Aug. August 1914 before. Holders of the EK from 1870 received according to the order of 4 June 1915 as a (renewed) award on the ribbon above t