Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Early 1957 Version, by Steinhauer & Lück United Republic of he served with the Reserve

he served with the Reserve Infantry Regiment 8 (III Army Corps)

A round gilded copper medal

pinned with aluminum insignia and bearing machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire tresses

with the body and sleeves completely unlined

the interior lid lined with a recessed medal bed

Germany, Federal Republic. A German Cross in Gold, Early 1957 Version, by Steinhauer & Lück United Republic of he served with the Reserve(Deutsches Kreuz in Gold). Constructed of gilded and silvered bronze with enamels, the obverse consisting of a double overlaid ribbed starburst, bearing a central silvered disc overlaid by a blackened and silvered 1939 Iron Cross executed according to the regulations of 1957, situated within a circular laurel leaf wreath wrapped in ribbon, joined together at the bottom by plaque bearing an institution date of 1941, trimmed along both the inner and