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Unbekannter Hersteller
Gewölbtes EK1 an großer runder mit Strahlenmuster versehener Gegenplatte, ungepunzt. Auf der Aversseite sehen wir eine stehende Bügelkrone, die 4 in der Jahreszahl ist offen, das Stiftermonogramm berührt nicht den Rahmen. Auf der Reversseite befindet sich in der Mitte der Gewindestift, auf dem die Gegenplatte auf geschraubt wird. Die Schraubscheibe selbst ist deformiert
Gewicht: 25 Gramm
Nicht magnetisch
Abmessungen 43 x 43 mm
Gestiftet wurde das Eiserne Kreuz am 17. März 1813 durch König Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Preußen, um seinen Soldaten unabhängig vom Rang eine sichtbare Tapferkeitsauszeichnung verleihen zu können. Entworfen von Karl Friedrich Schinkel bestach es durch sein schlichtes Design und die Materialien Eisen sowie Silber. Ikonisch wurde das Eiserne Kreuz durch seine Neustiftung für den erneuten Krieg gegen Frankreich am 19. Juli 1870 durch König Wilhelm I. von Preußen und die damit herbei geführte Reichsgründung nach dem Sieg über Frankreich. So war es eine logische Entscheidung, dass der deutsche Kaiser Wilhelm II. am 5. August 1914 die Stiftung erneuerte. Durch die Verleihung an alle Soldaten unter deutscher Fahne wurde das Eiserne Kreuz quasi von einer preußischen zu einer gesamtdeutschen Auszeichnung.
Das Eiserne Kreuz 1. Klasse wurde im Ersten Weltkrieg inklusive der Nachverleihungen bis 1924 um die 218.000mal verliehen und damit bekam nur jeder 24 Soldat, der ein Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse erhalten hatte, auch eines der Ersten Klasse.
Zum letzten Mal wurde die Stiftung des Eisernen Kreuzes am 1. September 1939 zum dritten Mal erneuert.
King Frederick William III of Prussia initially created the Iron Cross as a military decoration on March 17, 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars. The Iron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussian War (1870), World War I (1914), and World War II (1939).
The Iron Cross was usually a military decoration only but awarded to civilians for performing military functions in a few instances.